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Nick Beeson has sent us the results of the nationwide GNAS January Challenge. The challenge, with no prizes or awards was for archers to submit their best Portsmouth scores for that month. The results can be found here . We would like to congratulate the four members of our club that took part, Paul Hyde, Susan Corless, David Quemby and Pam Joseph. All did us proud.
Nick has asked participants to check their scores, and forward any corrections to him.
NAC is shooting a 24 hour sponsored Shootathon at Carlsberg Social Club, Old Towcester Road, Northampton from 10pm on Friday 23rd March to raise money for Sport Relief – a great cause. We aim to shoot 10,000 arrows in this time. We’re sure that the whole event will be great fun, and GNAS members from around the county are being invited to join in. Further details of the event can be found on this page and at the Sport relief web site. If you would like to make further inquiries please contact Dave Taylor at chair@northamptonarchery.co.uk.
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Our February Records Update has now been completed, and we have to say it has been an outstanding month for new club records with no less than 21 new or improved records, by the now usual suspects – David Quemby, Susan Corless and Paul Hyde.
For Paul there are new records for the Portsmouth Triple and Quad, the FITA 18 and FITA 18 Triple and the FITA 25 Triple.
For Susan there are seven new records for the Worcester, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Double, FITA 18, FITA 18 Double, FITA 25 and FITA combined rounds. The combined FITA score of 991 also set a new county record, beating the previous record of 976.
David Quemby has set no less than 9 new records for the Bray 1, Bray 1 Double, FITA 18, FITA 18 Double, Triple and Quadruple, FITA 25, Vegas and Worcester rounds.
David Quemby and David Taylor have now (at last) also been presented with there 1st Class Badges from the outdoor performances from 2011. The classification scheme is something the whole club can partake in once we move outdoors again.. The scheme is briefly explained on our site by clicking here.
Amazing stuff from our club and well done to you all.
Woac hosted the Jim Mckeown memorial Shoot over the weekend of 11th & 12th February in which several members of the NAC attended.
Both Paul Hyde and David Quemby took part over the two day event and others took part on the Sunday only. Missing the Saturday was a treat for me as the schools heating system had failed and the temperature was well below freezing (and very cold indoors too). Sunday was almost tropical in comparison as temperatures rose above freezing but several layers of clothing was still the order of the day.The shoot was a FITA 18 and WOAC use an electronic audible system, (saves blowing a whistle), the other feature of the electronics was that it was “timed”, so after the first audible warning you get so many seconds to approach the line and place an arrow on the rest, shooting then commenced after the second audible warning when a countdown system took over allowing 40 seconds (average) per arrow. If a shot is made after the zero audible warning then a penalty is imposed, so too if you run out of time you shouldn’t release an arrow after the zero has sounded.
The NAC team consisting of Susan Corless, David Quemby,Mick Lovell and Paul Hyde managed a very respectful 2nd place in the team categoryand yes youv’e guessed it Susan achieved another personal best with some impressive shooting and so another club record will be claimed. The most fantastic news of all is that Dave Quemby and Paul Hyde took first and second place in the Quadruple round which one would assume will also set new records for the NAC.
Individual scores can be seen on the WOAC website.
Well done to all who took part once again showing that the NAC is back where it should be.