News: August & September 2022

With the beautiful August weather South Wansdyke Archery Club saw a busy month for our 252 progression awards.  Newer members Phil Beale and Andy Hamblin attaining 20 and 30 yards awards shooting barebow.  Dean Broadway continued his great progress attaining his 40 yard award, also shooting barebow.  Phil’s success continued into September where is achieve the necessary score at 40 yards as well.

The club had representation at the 133rd Writhlington Flower Show, to provide visitors with the chance to Have-A-Go.  The team of coaches saw a steady stream of people willing to give archery a go, with most shots hitting the target, followed by a general sense of achievement.

Competitively, several members competed in the Bath Hereford 2022.  A Hereford shoot is 6 dozen arrows at 80yards, 4 dozen at 60 yards and 2 dozen at 50 yards.  Clive Jarrett was runner up in the Gentlemen Recurve category, winning The president’s Cup and the silver medal, missing out on 1st place by 17 points.  Andy Young placed 4th.  In the junior ladies recurve, Sophie Young won the Red Shield and the Gold Medal with a score of 1058, this was tied highest score of the day in all recurve categories, including senior men.

As we moved into the latter end of the summer, the club had four representatives at the Great Western Archer Society Intercounties event.  Clair Crook (Ladies Compound), Sophie Young (Ladies Recurve), Janet Ross (Ladies Recurve) and Clive Jarrett (Mens Recurve).  The shoot was held at Exmouth Archers, between Somerset, Dorset & Wiltshire, Devon & Cornwall and Gloucestershire.   Our four archers helped Somerset place 2nd with 24323 points.  The winners were Devon & Cornwall with 25944.

This autumn see a return to indoor archery and the clubs attempts to retain it senior and junior indoor county league trophies, the club hosting a head to head Clout shoot with Bitton Archers, a fun shoot at Halloween and the introduction of 8 new archers through our regular beginners course.