By Helen Lee
Our 4th annual charity shoot, this year in aid of Macmillan Nurses, took place on 18th August 2018. It was warm and dry but rather windy, which played to the advantage of the traditional ‘fun shoot with evil rules’, meaning that anyone could be in with a chance of winning. Once again we played with the Gosforth arrows round, but with the distances shortened to 50, 40 and 30 yards, so as to hopefully include more people. We also had a Burntwood round set up for our visit from Nadeem, and he was joined by some of our younger archers.
Unfortunately, the wind caused too many problems with the setting up of the targets and the balloon-pop element had to be abandoned, although Kieren’s lovely dancing with strings of balloons across the field may have made up for that a little.
The target rules where provided via a random number generator and there were cries of “I hate you Helen!” after a perfect end from a couple of participants, who then had the inner 2 rings not count or had to deduct their score from their running total. Thankfully I don’t take these things to heart and may have laughed evilly once or twice! One person I know who didn’t mind my rules was Nadeem, who managed to have with score of 9 increased to 90 on an invert score rule.
The scoring, as always, managed to confuse some people, with lots of crossing out and recalculations, but everyone seemed ‘happy’ to sign off on their score sheets.
The winners from the day were:
1st place: Steve East 510
2nd place: Kieren Brenchley 471
3rd Place: Brian Clark 464
Team: Fred Forth & Paul Nicholson 846
As always, the raffle went down well, with some people taking away a lot more than others, and the bake sale had everyone getting lots of sweet and some savoury treats. For some reason no-one seemed to want to cut into Jabba the Hutt, but Karen didn’t complain as she got to take him home again.
It was good to see the support from within the club and also have a number of visitors from our friends at Norton, Aycliffe and Priory, as well as having someone come from as far afield as The Company of Scorton Archers (near Catterick, I had to look it up). Thanks to everyone’s generosity we managed to raise £400.
Once again, a huge thank you to everyone who took part and donated time and money.
Full Results:
Name | Score | Team score |
Steve East | 510 | 720 |
Kieren Brenchley | 471 | 727.33 |
Brian Clark | 464 | 845 |
Alan Blogg | 450 | 842.67 |
Paul Heaps | 441 | 842.67 |
Rhiannon Beckett | 434 | 836 |
Fred Forth | 432 | 846 |
Katie Brenchley | 429 | 844 |
Simon Bradshaw | 428 | 837.33 |
Paul Jarred | 419 | 782 |
Adrian Sutherland | 417 | 837.33 |
Darcy Summerill | 415 | 844 |
Paul Nicholson | 414 | 846 |
Bill Smith | 411 | 837.33 |
Naomi Salmons | 406 | 684 |
Andy Mason | 402 | 836 |
Aaron Clark | 384 | 749 |
Jay Ingram | 381 | 845 |
Wayne Summerill | 380 | 727.33 |
Ethan Bradshaw | 373 | 842.67 |
Karen Relton | 365 | 749 |
Ric Ingram | 363 | 782 |
Nadeem Mughal | 278 | 684 |
Anth Peacock | 240 | 727.33 |
Chris McGrath | 210 | 720 |