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Welcome to the November Newsletter!

Thanks to everyone that came along and helped make the Halloween special a

great success. A special thanks to Jim who helped with all the setup the night

before and those that stayed on at the end to help tidy up the remains of all

the exploded glow rings that had given the hall a good Halloween splattering

We hope everyone enjoyed it.

Congratulations to Jon Dobney for winning the 1st session and to Andy Edwards

coming a very close 2nd (only 12 points!) off Ricks 392 score (using a club bow) in the 2nd session. Also well done to

Ellie and Megan for the best costumes

This Friday evening is the first of our British Archery postal league entries and Saturday is the first of the Frostbite

rounds. See section later in the newsletter for more information on this.

Note: Saturday 16th November is the Scouts District Archery Competition so we will be moving normal archery club to

Sunday 17th November. (if any experienced archers fancy helping on the Saturday then please see Rick!)

Archery GB Membership 2019/20

October marks the start of the Archery GB membership year, so now is the perfect time to consider joining. We’re

now up to 16 full members of AGB and its growing all the time which is great to see. There are a number of benefits

to joining the governing body of your sport which you can find here: https://www.archerygb.org/about-us-structure-

safeguard/about-us/membership-services/membership-benefits/

Joining AGB means that you can start doing archery outside of Compton and joining the growing team taking part of

competitions. Most of these competitions welcome juniors and novice archers so all are welcome! AGB pricing for

Juniors is particularly good value at just £15.50 for the year. We’ll do all the paperwork for you too. See Leon, Rick or

Natalie for more information on this.

If you still need to renew your AGB membership just email Compton.archery@gmail.com and let us know.

Don’t forget that we now have a website at https://comptonarchery.wordpress.com/ where you can find all sorts of

information like warm up techniques, bow tuning guides, scoresheet downloads and all the previous newsletters! Go

take a look.

Purbeck Annual 3D Animal Target Field Archery Tournament

On the weekend of October 12th & 13th Rick and Leon visited Purbeck archery in Dorset for their annual 3D target

field archery tournament. What started as a VERY wet day turned into a great day of field archery with a round of 18

animal targets in the morning followed by a special ‘Jurassic Valley’ 18 dinosaur targets in the afternoon. Each target

can be anywhere from 5-70 yards and they are NOT marked for distance so that’s a major challenge! You then have

just 3 arrows to hit the target, moving forwards to designated shooting pegs each time. There were over 100 archers

on the day shooting in a number of bow style categories. Leon won 2nd in the Freestyle category with Rick coming in

a very close 4th.

We are trying to organise another visit to Purbeck to introduce some of our archers to field archery with a view to

them being signed off as safe to shoot and join the national field archery society. If you are interested in this please

let Rick know.

Hall of Fame August 2019

Well done to archers achieving awards and badges this month. (Sorry if we’ve missed anyone below! Let us know!)

Well done to Owen Smith on achieving a new Portsmouth PB of 473 and setting a new Under 14 club record at the same time!

British Archery Postal League 2019/2020

As you may have read in the previous newsletter, Compton Archery have entered several teams in the British Archery Winter Postal League. This, as the name suggests is a national league and has clubs taking part from all over the country! The league consists of 2 separate competitions - an Indoor Portsmouth league and an Outdoor Frostbite league. We have entered 2 senior and 1 junior teams in the indoor league and 2 senior teams in the outdoor league.

The season will consist of 5 matches in each league over the winter period - 1 match per month - and although we will not actually be shooting with the opposing team, we will have to exchange results, so we will get to shoot against other archers from all over the place. If you would like to take part in the Postal league, the matches will be held on the 1st Archery Friday of every month for the Indoor (Portsmouth) league, so the first match is currently planned for the 8th November, with the first Outdoor (Frostbite) the next day on Sat 9th. All you need to do is complete a full round and submit the completed score sheet to me at the end of the night. If you submit a score sheet, you will be considered as part of the squad. All the club asks is that you pay £2. That’s £2 for the ENTIRE SEASON by the way, not per match. If you want to do the Frostbite league too, it will be £2 per session because we’ll be shooting on a completely separate day and need to cover wear and tear on targets etc. If we have more than 6 senior and 3 junior scores submitted, it will be the highest of those 6 and 3 that get submitted to the league as the match result. And just so you know, junior archer scores CAN be submitted in the senior teams. There will also be no separation between freestyle (with a sight) and barebow score. It is just the highest scores of the match. If you are interested, please come and speak to me the next time you see me at a session, and I will explain it to you hopefully better than I have here. Thank you all. Stu Walker

Equipment changes

We have now got our space back in the outside container so we’ve moved ALL the kit back into that for the winter

months. If we do shoot outside (e.g. for Frostbite rounds) we’ll have to temporarily roll targets over to the field and

then put them back afterwards. We are arranging mats for the hall entrances as we are aware that they get wet and

slippery when it’s raining outside. As always, please take care when moving any of the equipment and always ask if

you’re new to it.

Classifieds

A number of archers have spare kit for sale as a result of upgrades etc. Before you buy something new it’s always

worth having a word with Rick or Leon about potential 2nd hand kit available. Also, if you’re starting out looking at

your own kit also let us know so that we can help you with that and keep a look out for good deals.

Warming up

Like any sport, warming up your muscles beforehand is absolutely key to your performance and prevention of injury.

Here are a few good warm ups to do before you start shooting.

Club Kit

We are in the process of changing the supplier for our club kit. In the meantime, if you are interested please contact

Rick for more details.

Important Dates

** Archery dates can always be found on the right hand side of the website pages **

Upcoming Friday shooting dates are: Friday 8th November, Friday 22nd November, Friday 6th December.

Upcoming Saturday shooting dates are: SUNDAY 17th November, Saturday 1st December.

Note: Saturday 16th November is the Scouts District Archery Competition so we will be moving normal archery club to

Sunday 17th November.

Archery GB Members Section

Oxfordshire County Indoor Championships 2019 @ Wallingford on November 24th

This is our home County Indoor Championship of the year for senior freestyle (with sights) archers. You don't have to be at any particular level to take part! You can purely shoot for the fun of it and you own personal score. They have a nice indoor venue at Wallingford and its obviously pretty close too. It would be an ideal first indoor tournament. We’ve already got a few people signed up so you won’t be on your own! Entry is via the website below. If you have any more questions about it, please feel free to email or speak to Leon. --------------------------------------------------------- Hi All, Oxfordshire County Senior Indoor Championships is open to entries! It will be held on Sunday, 24 November and hosted by Wallingford Castle Archers. The format will be a WA18m followed by head-to-head matches. Entry is online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxfordshire-county-indoor-championships-2019-tickets-78944520185 Pleae note that this is the official Recurve and Compound senior county championships. A separate event will be held for Juniors, Novices and Unsighted bowstyles in March 2020.

I would be greatful if you would circulate around your members. Hope to see you there! Andy Buchan Secretary, County of Oxfordshire Archery Society.

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The End.

That’s it for this month’s Newsletter! We hope you’ve found it useful and informative.

If you’d like us to include or cover anything specific next month please let us know at Compton.archery@gmail.com.

As ever, please email Compton.archery@gmail.com with any questions comments or questions you have and keep

sending in those score sheets for 252, National and Portsmouth rounds etc.

We look forward to seeing you on the shooting line.

Rick and the Compton Archery team.

Current Club Records

Indoor Rounds – Here are the most common Indoor rounds that we’ll be doing at Compton…

Portsmouth – 5 dozen arrows at 20 yards into an 60cm face

WA18 – 5 dozen arrows at 18m into a 40cm face

WA18 3-spot – 5 dozen arrows at 18m into a 40cm 3-spot face

252 @ 20 yards – 3 dozen arrows at 20 yards into a 122cm face