NFAS v EFAA??

[English Bowman]

Nope. Raven Field archers are affilliated to GNAS and also run NFAS shoots. (NFAS don't have club affiliation archers afflilate direct)

However to allow members of both societies to shoot together we have our own club insurance, as GNAS won't cover a shoot with non GNAS members and NFAS won't cover non NFAS members.

[Swaledale]

Originally Posted by GingerGeneCarrier

is there any reason why a club cannot be affiliated to GNAS/EFAA/NFAS at the same time?

None at all
We are NFAS and GNAS and hold events under either flag, there are plenty more where we come from!
If Big Jon is anywhere in the Northern Counties catchment area, he may like to enter the NCAS/YAA Field Champs in October even if he is not he is more than welcome.
English Bowman
I appreciate that you may have had a bad experience at NFAS events in the past but recent changes in rules and attitudes may well serve to put your mind at rest the next time you visit an NFAS event. You step forward of the shooting line now and you'll be linched and hung from a tree, we ain't gunna have no transgressers here goddamit!
Cammo wearing, yes this does occur but increasingly it instills micky taking so perhaps it is only a matter of time on this one.

[Raedwald]

Having "volunteered" to help set up our January "Big Game Special" NFAS shoot, we're already looking at potential shots (the first couple are already plotted out, and there's a few others that "might work".

Rules employed in the placements of targets and pegs:

Rule 1: Is it a safe shot?
Rule 3: Is it a possible shot with all bow styles?
Rule 2: Is it a good shot with all bow styles?
Rule 4 - n: See rule 1.

[Haywain]

The only reason is down to the membership. If your members do not shoot for a particular society there is little point in being affiliated to them.

Of the clubs I have been involved with, the first was purely GNAS when i first joined (Bowmen of Bude). As more and more members started shooting field (and there were very few GNAS field shoots within a suitable distance at that time) the membership changed and the club went GNAS and NFAS and is now purely NFAS.
The second club is NFAS and EFAA affiliated (Fleet Ibex), but has been going for many years and has in the past been GNAS, EFAA and NFAS affiliated at one time or other, again mostly due to the fact that the archers changed societies themselves.

NFAS does have official club affiliation (this started at the beginning of this year when all clubs were asked to submit their details).

Safety.... I have seen some misuse of equipment by archers of all societies, but this is down to individual archers who are too stupid to follow the rules or have little or no common sense.
The worst case I saw was not at a field shoot at all and was caused by an archer drawing an arrow on a bow while pointing it towards everyone on the shooting line "just to watch what would happen" !!!!!! What happened was being banned from all future shoots, the club and the society.

Originally Posted by GingerGeneCarrier

is there any reason why a club cannot be affiliated to GNAS/EFAA/NFAS at the same time?