posted Oct 4, 2009

Maybe Roger will win it next week?

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posted Oct 5, 2009

Dear Peter

Thank you for posting an archery article. It is appreciate from those active Archers who read this particular forum, as opposed to the others who get immense amusement from constantly mentioning fairy tale characters or long standing Radio 4 soap operas.

However, please, arrows are shot, they are not fired.

As to the new format it seems like a good thing to me especially as it would increase the pressure on good shooting. However as my archery is very much of the traditional format I would hope that one of the regulars here who is more au fait with modern archery will comment accordingly.

Take care

TMF

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posted Oct 5, 2009

Sorry, thats target archery and not my bag!

However, as above, no arrow has ever been 'fired' they are always shot!

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posted Oct 5, 2009

Thank you for the reply Peter, it *is* appreciated.

However you are more likely to come across that term where there are a group of archers "under command" and shooting together, the accepted commands being Nock, Draw and Loose. In the same situation the command to stop shooting is "Fast" being, of course, the opposite of Loose.

Anyway back to the scoring system. It would seem to be a more consistent way of doing things but, as mentioned already, where my style of archery is involved in competitions they are very much for fun.

As an example one is six arrows in a minute at approximately 25yds, the inner bull scoring 12 and then scored to the numbered rings and not the colours. Not something you are likely to come across at a GNS event!

I believe wyno70 is not in the UK so his\her requirements are more directed towards hunting than scoring but I may be wrong.

Anyway take care

TMF

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posted Oct 5, 2009

Correct TMF, you are wrong!!

I'm Essex based, just not interested too much in target archery, all a bit too formal for me.

My background is 'Field Archery'.

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posted Oct 5, 2009

I stand (well sit at the PC) corrected.

Us lot, and I mean the Archers I shoot with, are seriously thinking along the NFAS route instead of GNAS although we are also seriously thinking of getting our GNAS courses in place as well for instructors and the like.

It would be very easy for us to set up a NFAS affiliation due to what we do.

Take care

TMF

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posted Oct 14, 2009

Surely you mean ''the Archers you fire with''

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posted Oct 16, 2009

but going back to the Simon Terry point, I wonder what 'whining Wills' excuse for being beaten will be this time....

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posted 5 Weeks Ago

Having shot with "whining Wills"(admittedly a long time ago) i know that he does shoot better with a bit of fire in his belly, Peter Suk has done amazing things for British archery but not everyone has the same mentality and clearly Peters way didn't suit all people.

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