[steve58]

In my limited experience this seems to vary by judge and venue. Some judges like to keep the shoot moving purposefully, and diplomatically discourage archers socialising/calculating at the target line, others seem content to let things trundle along... There is one local shoot which seems always to run slow, at least it has every time I have been there! My personal preference is for a shoot to be quite brisk, far easier to stay focused on the task at hand, especially in poor weather. I also agree with the poster earlier who suggested that arrows could be found in batches (perhaps hanging something on the back of bosses where there was still a missing arrow to make sure it got looked for), eg at a York there is often a comfort break at the three dozen stage; athough I can see this might create its own problems if the field party only had one metal detector and a lot of ground to cover...