Berk
New member
We had our club's novice shoot yesterday, with the rest of us having a fun handicap shoot at the same time. The rounds were the New Western, Long Western, Western and Short Junior Western (have you spotted a theme yet?).
I don't have a handicap for my longbow yet, as this was only my second round shot with it, but I thought I'd give it a go anyway. I decided to dive straight in with the New Western, shooting with another archer also doing his first 100 yard shoot. We had great fun, loads of laughs on the line and easy to find arrows as I was aiming at the top of the leylandii behind our field. The field captain did try and tell me that we'd had the six sighters already, but I figured that I had 4 dozen sighters at each distance.
I started off abysmally, unless you score in roman numerals in which case I scored 6000 each end, but by the end of 100 yards I was getting the arrows in line with the boss, and even hitting it occasionally. I fared a little better at 80 yards and overall scored 67 points, only 5 points off a first class score. So I'm really pleased with how it went, considering it's only my fourth outing with the longbow and second time shooting a round with it. I had a few firsts too, my first 100 yard club shoot (including with the recurve), my first gold at 80 yards (guaranteed to be a lucky shot) and my first broken arrow.
I don't have a handicap for my longbow yet, as this was only my second round shot with it, but I thought I'd give it a go anyway. I decided to dive straight in with the New Western, shooting with another archer also doing his first 100 yard shoot. We had great fun, loads of laughs on the line and easy to find arrows as I was aiming at the top of the leylandii behind our field. The field captain did try and tell me that we'd had the six sighters already, but I figured that I had 4 dozen sighters at each distance.
I started off abysmally, unless you score in roman numerals in which case I scored 6000 each end, but by the end of 100 yards I was getting the arrows in line with the boss, and even hitting it occasionally. I fared a little better at 80 yards and overall scored 67 points, only 5 points off a first class score. So I'm really pleased with how it went, considering it's only my fourth outing with the longbow and second time shooting a round with it. I had a few firsts too, my first 100 yard club shoot (including with the recurve), my first gold at 80 yards (guaranteed to be a lucky shot) and my first broken arrow.