Mayflower Autumn 2005

It is with great sadness that I have to report the death of Terry Harris. Terry had a very bad accident on the 15th August at his place of work. He was taken into Basildon Hospital but although two operations were performed to improve his condition, he died on Friday 23rd August with his family in attendance. . Terry joined “Mayflower Archers” in January 1998 and put in a lot of practice to improve his skills. Like everything he did, it had to be done well and he became a very capable archer. He was also very competitive by nature and did not like to be beaten. He will not only be missed for his skill at archery but for his active work for the club, as “League Secretary”, organising the league matches, making items like target stands and generally offering assistance wherever it was required both on and off the field. He was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather and also a very good friend to many of us. Shooting, whether it be at practice or league matches, will never be the same again. The world is a poorer place without him and we will all miss him terribly.

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Contributors this issue: DM—David Mallett JB-Julie Bishop MV– Mitch Vaughan NA-Nic Adams RM-Robert Markham RG-Roger Glover SF-Steve Fenton Photos courtesy of Brian Edwards, Robert Markham

As last year, I agreed to collate and post scores for the GNAS postal tournament. Since I needed signed score sheets, I decided to run it as a tournament. The theory was that it would give tournament style experience to our newer members in a club atmosphere. Many thanks to ‘Judge’ Julie for her part in keeping us all straight, including me who managed after all the tournaments I’ve scored at, to get it wrong at ‘home’. Mayflower fared extremely well in the results table. Of the 23 participants in seven of nine categories, (we have no under 9’s) from our newest members to those with National level expertise, our youth bought home four first, one second and five third places totalling ten trophies. Several County Records were broken in the process. Fantastic achievements.

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(Continued from page 1) All our entrants should be proud of themselves, were credits to the club and testament to our coaches and trainers who should be equally proud of our juniors. Full results are available on the GNAS or the club website, but the awards are listed below: Boys under 18 Compound 2nd Philip Glover 3rd Aaron Vaughan Girls under 18 Compound 1st Charlotte Pudney Boys under 18 Longbow 1st Owen Humphreys Boys under 16 Compound 1st George Fenton Boys under 16 Longbow 1st Joseph Vidgeon-Hart 3rd Finbar Tubby Boys under 14 Recurve 3rd Michael Markham Boys under 12 Compound 3rd Harry Abbott Girls under 13 Compound 3rd Lucy Gilbey Well done everybody including the newest members. Although some scores may have seemed low, you were competing against the rest of the nation. That’s an indication of your level of improvement in just a few months. Many thanks to all club members who volunteered to assist and made the event run smoothly.

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The indoor season is now upon us and Julie has put together a list of those local shoots that she has details of so far, as usual there will be others on Robert's tournament diary on the Mayflower website. Indoor competitions are usually held over a number or sessions and then the scores put together at the end for the final results. So you only need to be there for one session. (Portsmouth rounds usually take roughly 2 and a half hours to shoot.) A Portsmouth Round is 5 dozen on the larger of the two faces (60cm) that we use indoors, distance 20 yards and is shot in ends of 3. A Bray round is 2 and a half dozen on the smaller of the faces (40cm), also a 20 yds shot in ends of 3 A FITA 18 is shot on vertical 3 spot faces, this time at 18metres, which is about the same as 20 yards. For this it is ends of 3 with one arrow in each of the faces. Indoor scoring is 10 zone. i.e. inner gold 10, outer gold 9, inner red 8, outer red 7 etc, etc. (compounds use an inner 10 - best to speak to an experienced compound archer or coach rather than me waffle on about it here). A Worcester round is something a little different (still at 20 yards) but uses a black target with a white centre, is shot in ends of 5 and the scoring is 5,4,3,2,1. It is still 5 dozen arrows.


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Sunday 23rd October, Racketts, Woodlands School, Takely End, Basildon, Portsmouth round 3 sessions 9.30, 1pm or 4.30pm. entry fee £6. Entries have closed, but if you haven't entered and want to see if there are any spaces phone the organiser Georgina Thompson 01702 559340 Sunday 30th October, Braintree Bowmen, at their new venue, Halstead Leisure Centre, Colne Road, Halstead, Portsmouth Round, 3 sessions 10am, 1pm, 4pm entry fee adults £6.50, juniors £5. Sunday 6th November, Mayflower, Mayflower School, Stock Road, Billericay, FITA 18 round Sunday 27th November, West Essex Bowmen, Gaynes School, Upminster Essex, RM14 3UX, Portsmouth round, 3 sessions 9am, 12.30, 16.00 fee £6.50. Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th December, JUNIOR NATIONAL INDOOR CHAMPS, Lilleshall, Shropshire, entry forms on www.gnas.org website - suggest you send in your own entries as travel and accommodation will need to be arranged - it is further away than the previous venue at Coventry. Ask Julie for more details if you can’t get them from the web. Sunday 11th December, Racketts, Woodlands School, Takely Ride, Basildon, Worcester Round, Fancy Dress Xmas fun shoot, (probably 3 sessions but no further details yet Saturday 7th January 2006, Rayleigh Junior Portsmouth, Deanes School, Daws Heath Road, Rayleigh 2 sessions 2.30 or 6pm. This is a good one for juniors as medals are given in age groups, which isn't often the case at indoor comps. Sunday 8th January 2006, Rayleigh Open Portsmouth, Deanes School, Daws Heath Road, Rayleigh, 2 sessions 10am or 1.30 Saturday 21st January and Sunday 22nd January, British Schools Indoor Archery Championships (otherwise known as BSIAC), Bexley Grammar School, Kent. I haven't got many details yet, but there are usually 3 sessions each day and Mayflower have a number of trophies to defend. Once again medals in individual age groups and disciplines. You only need to shoot one session over the weekend. As usual, speak to Julie if you want any more details or to add your name to the list of Mayflower entries for any of the above competitions. If you want to make your own entries direct to any competitions that is fine.

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(Continued from page 3) years ago ! Saturday began the FITA Star, with overcast weather, a medium tail wind and fortunately no rain. Star of the day was Philip Glover who was shooting for the England Team and I think understandably, a little nervous to start with. It was a joy to have our filth member of the club represent their country and Philip joins Tommy, Kerry, Tim, Michael and Alex, who have previously had this honour. Philip settled quickly during the day and finished with a new personal best of exactly 1300 for the Gents FITA, claiming the coveted '1300' FITA Star badge. England was the winning team, with Scotland finishing 2nd and Wales 3rd. I experienced one of the strangest equipment failures I have ever come across mid way through the day. The judges announced the equipment failure but oddly were not sure how long to sort it out. Judges and officials then started running the length of the field and it was apparent there was quite a problem somewhere. It turned out to be one of the girls on the target I was scoring, who was shooting for the Welsh Team. The poor girl had become locked in the loo, and a collection of officials were required to break the door down to let her continue shooting ! (I think that was a rather extreme way of ensuring victory Philip !!) It was fantastic to see all of our juniors on the first day set new personal bests, what a great place to achieve this. Results were: Philip Glover Gents FITA - Comp. 1300 Gold + Compound Cup Michael Markham Metric 3 - Rec 1294 Gold + Section 5 Cup + SCAS Team Gold George Fenton Metric 2 - Comp. 1278 Silver Tom Pow Metric 1 - Comp. 1253 Bronze Aaron Vaughan Metric 1 - Comp. 1223 Personal Best Michael Judd Metric 1 - Rec. 1091 Personal Best Stephen Horne Metric 2 - Rec. 1044 Personal Best Michael Markham was also part of the winning Regional junior gents recurve team, and Rayleigh's Emily Reader was part of the second place junior girls Regional team. Well done also to Rayleigh's John Rankin-Maclean who secured a Gold medal for the Metric 3 Longbow round. Good placings were also achieved from Rayleigh's Alex Johns, Paul Lees, John Guiton, Luke Willett, James Philips, Ben brownn and Harry Hague. It was great to see Essex so well represented again, when three years ago there was just two Essex archers at the Liverpool tournament. We had plenty to celebrate on the Saturday evening with a group of 14 kids and parents setting off for the picturesque village of Ironbridge where we booked the whole of the upstairs of a restaurant over looking the bridge and serving great food (The Coracle - www.thecoracle.co.uk). Sunday was the day of the National Target Champs. and the sun managed to shine for most of the day, with a variable tail wind. Star of the day was again Philip Glover who managed to win the Compound Gents York and in the process secure his third senior Master Bowman score, not a bad way to start his entry to the adult section at the end of this year. There was a close battle in the Compound Bristol 2 contest with George Fenton just missing a silver medal by one Gold ! Results from the day were: Philip Glover York - Comp 1180 Gold + Chiltern Cup Michael Markham Bristol 3 - Rec. 1214 Silver + SCAS Rec. Team Gold + SCAS Mixed Team Gold George Fenton Bristol 2 - Comp. 1222 Silver + SCAS Comp. Team Gold New County Records We also managed to gather 7 new County Records with Michael Markham claiming


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(Continued from page 4) the Metric 3 + 50m, 40m &30m distance records. George Fenton claims a new Metric 2 record and also the 40m record. Philip Glover claimed a new record for the York. It was quite something to see our juniors contributing to a great regional success, with SCAS winning the Gents recurve team on Saturday and again on Sunday and also winning the recurve team, compound team and mixed team gold medals. Congratulations must also go to tournament organiser, Pam Tonkin and her team. I can honestly say that I thought this was by far the best organised tournament I have ever attended during my 16 years in the sport. Everything ran smoothly and the attention to detail was excellent, even the little things like bins being changed regularly had not been overlooked. The results were obviously posted ever so quickly as we began to get calls from club members back home soon after the tournament had ended. I know that a good number of our juniors (and parents !) were exhausted come Monday. Wasn't it worth it though ! Well done to all our kids and our colleagues from Rayleigh.

I made the short journey to Panthers to attend an English Field Archery Association 28 Unmarked 3D classification shoot. Weather conditions were fine and some pretty good archers were in attendance including GB Compound International Neil Wakelin. My group today consisted of Robin Frost and Paul Bonner. Paul, a good many years ago, was a very fine Field archer but had left the sport and came back to it last year after a 30 year absence. Well the absence had done very little to alter his form as he posted a score of 506 points Recurve Barebow and in doing so he put in a claim for a Veterans National Record.!! Indeed Robin’s 520 was just 4 short of his Freestyle Recurve Record. I posted a more modest 406 shooting Bowhunter Recurve (Barebow Recurve with no string walking or face walking, one consistent anchor point) however


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This is an annual shoot for able bodied and disabled archers. The maximum that can be shot is a Western, due to ground limitations, but all shorter Westerns, including a Mini-Western for very disabled archers and a Burntwood-Western for the visually impaired archers are available. In this competition the disabled archers shoot the max distance they feel comfortable with. Able bodied archers shoot alongside, to assist with scoring and collection of arrows. If no able bodied archer is shooting, then other helpers step in to assist. The day was fine to start with, but clouded up after lunch, the threatened rain not arriving until the last dozen, fortunately. However, the wind did turn up early and caused problems for some, particularly those with low poundage bows. The deputy Mayor of Havering, wearing his chain of office, opened proceedings by shooting the first arrow. He then retired to carry out other business, but returned, with his wife, to present the awards at the end of the day. Mayflower did not have many entrants, but as usual, those present gave a good account of themselves, with Gold medals going to Harry Abbott, Charlotte Pudney and myself (who also won a bottle of "plonk" for Best Gold). Graham Pallett shot a recurve PB. MV

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For the first time I can remember at this event, a weekend of poor weather with frequent rain dampened enthusiasm with the public. Numbers were significantly lower than in previous years although the archery 'come & try' was popular, but with lower numbers than in the past. We still managed to get through some 600 balloons, with stalwarts like Alex Purser spending most of the weekend on his knees with the under 5's ! My thanks also to Essex Police who rounded off my weekend with a speeding ticket from one of their charming mobile units ! Our thanks to all those that gave up part of their weekend to help at this event, which is our biggest fund raiser and source of new members. Let's hope for better weather next year.

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Warwick Arm-twisting time again, someone suggested it might be nice to do a mid summer round for all, but aimed at all newer members. A Warwick seemed like a round we could achieve in two hours on a Saturday without being too challenging and being in the middle of school holidays, we didn’t want to be too adventurous. Ten members took part of all ages and experience and once again, the juniors took one or two county records. Still, it was a fun afternoon run on tournament rules. Thanks again to ‘Judge’ Steve Fenton and all those whose assistance was invaluable. Short Metric Following the tournament theme and attempting to illustrate the various types of rounds, this event was intended as a challenge for all participants. It also provided an insight to the smaller faces, shorter distances and ten zone scoring used indoors. However, three junior FITA experts, obviously tired of 50 and 30 metres, opted for an


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(Continued from page 5) I was pleased as this was a PB for me. Other National records claimed today were for youngsters Will Purser and Alice Purcell congratulations to you both. As the outdoor target season is coming to a close and shooting outside in the winter months still appeals to some, you can find details of Field shoots on the GNAS web page, the E.F.A.A. website on www.efaafieldarcher.com and the NFAS website on www.nfas.net . On a more serious note, some weeks ago some 3D animals were stolen from Panthers ground namely a baboon, razorback, warthog and grazing deer. With the exception of the deer all were virtually new Rinehart’s and are security marked. As our website is read by many of the archery community and if any clubs are approached with regard to the above please contact Mike Purser on [email protected] Finally many thanks to everyone at Panthers for today’s competition. SF

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(Continued from page 6) Olympic 70m round: a bit difficult in ends of three. Thought initially that using full tournament procedure using entry forms, fees, signing in, ‘traffic light’ control and awarding trophies would make the day, it eventually changed to an afternoon fun shoot. We did however; maintain the light control, which was a useful test run before the Mayflower FITA18 and caught out a few participants. Several members commented on the difficulty of hitting an 80cm target at 50 metres, but when the following week several juniors were spotted getting sight marks on an 18m triple spot face, the 80 face didn’t seem so bad. No county records this time, but several members rose to the challenge and achieved some good scores, which made it an enjoyable event all the same even if I did get the bouncer rule wrong in the assembly. I never did have any aspirations as a tournament organiser. Thanks to Rob Markham for obtaining a generator for the lights, Nic Adams as Director of Shooting and all members for their assistance in setting up and judging.

Please pass on my thanks for the flower arrangement from Mayflower club in the form of an arrow and the second in the form of a target. I understand that the second was by personal donation, so please extend my thanks to those who contributed. Also thank you to all Terry's archery colleagues who attended the funeral. The family and I greatly appreciated seeing his friends. I apologise if I did not speak to everyone on the day-so many people. Sandra Harris.

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My usual miscellany of Mayflower results not otherwise covered in this edition with the usual apologies to those I may have missed: 23rd - 24th July 2005 - SCAS Double FITA Star - Befordshire James Keogh Gents FITA 1245 Bronze Michael Markham Ladies FITA (Cadet) 1103 Gold Claire Hooley Ladies FITA 1099 Personal Best

7th August 2005 - St George/Albion/Windsor Tournament - Upminster St George (Rec). Tommy Hodder 717 Silver Albion (Rec). Kerry Hodder 814 Gold Windsor (Rec). David Masser 786 Gold Short Windsor (L/B). Joseph Vidgeon-Hart 362 Gold + County Record Married couple award.


(Continued from page 7) Tommy and Kerry Hodder 1531 Gold 27th-29th August 2005 - Norfolk Double FITA Star & Head to Head - Norwich Charlotte Pudney 537 Comp County Record 3rd September 2005 SCAS Junior Championships - Wickford Aaron Vaughan (Comp) York 1018 Gold Charlotte Pudney (Comp) Hereford 1000 Silver Michael Judd (Rec) Bristol 1 942 Silver Joe Vidgeon-Hart (LB) Bristol 2 178 Silver Michael Markham (Rec) Bristol 3 1230 Gold / Team Silver County Record Ellie Vidgeon-Hart (Comp) Bristol 4 815 Gold 2nd October 2005 – 49th Essex & Open FITA Field Championships, West Hanningfield Gents Compound Unlimited: Mitch Vaughan 379 Bronze medal Gents under 18 Compound Unlimited: Philip Glover 376 Gold Medal (Personal Best) Gents Freestyle: Roger Glover 182 (Personal Best)

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Now, into chapter four, the newest bow in this series, the Compound Bow. Again, this is a development of the Composite Bow, but what a significant development it is. The changes compared to earlier bows, really does make this a significant step in bow design. I had intended this to be the final piece in this series of articles, but once I had started it expanded and would have overloaded the system. I have therefore, split the article up, this first part explaining just the history and some of the technology. This leaves the selection of bows, accessories and shooting for another article.

The Compound Bow as we know it is really of quite recent origins, the late 1960s. The earliest patent was issued to Holless Allen, an American of course, in 1966. I have not been able to locate a copy of his original patent, but a copy of a later one, issued in 1969 is shown below.

This is clearly for a two cam bow, with what appears to be a wooden riser (handle), so is easily identifiable with compounds of 30 years later. The basic idea was to produce a hunting bow of real power, but without the need for a high full draw load. Hunting bows of the time were frequently of 100lbs full draw weight, often even more. This made it very difficult to hold and aim when hunting with a flat bow or even a Recurve hunting bow, so alternatives were sort. It is worth remembering that this was a period of rapid developments in technology, such as Formula 1 racing cars sprouting “Wings”, the construction of Concorde and the Space Race, with Saturn 5 rockets and men landing on the moon. It is no wonder then that developments in archery moved faster than they had


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(Continued from page 8) for the previous 10,000 years or so. It was only in the early 1970s that the “Take-down” Recurve bow that we know today came into being and accepted by a large part of the archery world.

It is often said that the compound bow was invented to produce a short bow for the convenience of hunters, but as I mentioned in the earlier articles, composite and hunting Recurve bows were often less than 50ins (1.25m) long at this time. The earliest compounds were no shorter than this and quickly followed target bows in being made even longer for the target archer. One of the reasons for this of course, is that they were being shot off the fingers, release aids not being in general use at this time. The concept behind the development of this type of bow was to shoot arrows faster and with a lower trajectory than current bows, but without the high peak loads of the then current bows. The idea was to “compound” the energy stored by the bow, by using pulleys to give a greater “Mechanical Advantage”, or multiplication of the force exerted by the archer. This is an old and well known principle in mechanical engineering, but needed some lateral thinking and updated technology before it could be applied to archery. The design of the bows tended to follow that of the Recurve bows of the time. Many of them were one-piece wooden bows, or three-piece bows, with wooden risers and laminated limbs. Later they followed the Recurve path, with metal risers and either straight or recurved limbs.

Their advantage is best explained by examining the “Force Draw” curves for various bows, which shows not only the way force is applied to the arrow, but also the amount of energy stored. The energy has first to be stored in the limbs of the bow, before it can be transferred to the arrow and propel it to the target. The illustration below is a generic Force Draw Curve, explaining the terms used in describing the characteristics and operation of Compound bows . By plotting the Draw Weight up the vertical axis and Draw Length along the horizontal axis shows how the force increases as the bow is drawn, reaches a peak, then reduces as we approach the valley. The area under the curve can be calculated and shows the amount of energy stored by the bow. Below is shown the equivalent Force Draw Curve for a typical Recurve bow.

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This is the Force Draw curve for a compound bow of about the same peak weight. If the two Force Draw plots are put together, it easy to see that the Compound bow stores much more energy than the Recurve. This explains why the arrow will be launched with a much higher acceleration and ultimate speed. However this is not the end of the story; because the “Let Off” characteristic of the compound bow means that the archer is holding much less weight at full draw. Therefore, the peak load, which will only be held for a very short time, can be much higher. Below is the Draw Force plot for a bow which could be used by an archer who would otherwise be shooting the Recurve bow shown earlier. This shows a Peak weight of nearly 50lbs, but a holding weight of less than 20lbs. This of course, increases the energy stored, further increasing the speed of the arrow.

More advantage is gained, because the load on the arrow at launch is also reduced, allowing the use of a whippier and therefore lighter arrow.

With all these advantages it is no wonder that Compound bows gained so much support in such a short time, particularly amongst the American bowhunting fraternity.

Once the basic principal had been accepted, many variations of application appeared These variations varied from two wheel/cam, single cam, pulleys in the cables and multi-wheel bows. The cams were located in various places on the bow, the ends of the limbs, as in the original patent, the ends of the riser (handle) and the middle of the riser. Target versions evolved which were much longer, generally around 47 to 52ins Axle to Axle length and by the mid eighties were generally of 4 or 6-wheeled design.

This evolved by the early 1990s into a two wheeler of similar overall dimensions, draw length adjustment being achieved by the use of “Tri-draw” wheels which allowed the string to be shortened or lengthened by locating it in different notches in the cams/wheels. These wheels or cams were generally located at the ends of the limbs and because this brought the strings and cables into the same alignment, the cable guard had to be introduced to keep the cables to one side to provide the clear path for the arrow. The bow shown here is a 1996 model, 47ins long, but notice that the limbs are recurved, again a characteristic of target compounds of the period, said to give a “smoother shot”.

The bow to the left is typical of the popular 4-wheeled design of the mid -nineteen eighties. As can be seen it has a cast aluminium riser and laminated wood and fibre glass limbs, very similar to Recurve bows of the same period. The string wraps around round pulleys at the end of the limbs, over pulleys (at right angles) on the limbs and fastened to pylons on the riser. Often the pylons would have another pulley on each, to make a 6-wheeler, the cables being fastened further down the riser. This system had a number of advantages, it enabled a wide variation of draw lengths and loads to be covered with one bow and it kept the cables out of the path of the arrow without needing a cable guard. It was still popular for these bows to be shot as one would

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Whilst initially, Compound bows were shot along-side Recurves, they were quickly separated into category of their own because of the record breaking scores they were achieving in competition. Putting them into a class of their own meant that many of the restrictions could be ignored and innovations in equipment quickly followed. Some of these were borrowed from other sports, such as the telescopic sight from rifle shooting. This evolved into a magnifying lens in the front sight and a “peep sight” in the string acting as the back-sight. This gave further improved shooting accuracy. Another innovation was the adoption of a “release aid” to hold the string during the draw and to give a quicker and more repeatable release action. These had been used in flight shooting and by the disabled for many years, being developments from the thumb rings and other aids used for thousands of years by Eastern and Middle-Eastern archers with their composite bows. At this time, the late 1960s, they were being experimented with by some Recurve archers, before being banned in competition.

Up to this time the ideal target compound was generally regarded as having an axle to axle length of around 45 to 48ins, recurved limbs, round wheels or mild cams, a brace height of 8 to 10ins and a deflexed riser. These last two items being very similar to a Recurve bow of the time.

Mitch’s informative and enjoyable series continues next issue—Ed.

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Chairman: David Mallett Club Secretary: Brian Manhood Membership Secretaries: Brian Manhood Robert Markham (see below for contact details) Treasurer: Julie Bishop Equipment Officer: Brian Edwards Competitions Officer: Nigel Norris Field Captain: Andrew Paice Junior Liason Officer: (position vacant) Records Officer: Robert Markham General Member: John Burdett Newsletter Editor: Nic Adams

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Following our success in the July Nationals, Roger Glover is prepared to co-ordinate scores for this year's GNAS 'November Challenge' postal tournament. November 18th has been allocated as the evening we can shoot it together. It is a 3-dozen round shot on a 60cm face at 20 yards using ten-zone scoring. Details of classes are given below. Class Longbows and Details Recurve bows Fibreglass bows Compound bows Under 18 Boys # 1 Girls # 4 Boys # 7 Girls # 10 Boys & Girls # 13 Under 15 Boys # 2 Girls # 5 Boys # 8 Girls # 11 Boys & Girls # 14 Under 12 Boys # 3 Girls # 6 Boys # 9 Girls # 12 Boys & Girls # 15 There are no formal entry procedures, but Roger would appreciate knowing that you will be participating on that day to establish a basic target list. You can contact him at club stating in which classification you will be shooting. Score sheets will be provided, and you will need your GNAS number.

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Just a reminder that Mayflower is holding it’s second annual FITA 18 open tournament this year on Sunday November 6th. Tournament organiser Robert Markham (details under committee contacts) would be delighted to hear from anyone who is available to help in any capacity. NA

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Kerry Hodder is organising this years Mayflower Christmas dinner at the ‘Dukes Head’, Little Burstead, Billericay on Friday 9th December. There is a set menu and the cost is £16.50 per person, (inc service charge), Drinks are available at the bar at extra cost. A deposit of £5.00 per person will be required and you are welcome to bring along family and friends A letter has already been sent to all members.

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