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Old 28-11-05, 10:13 AM
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Cool Getting the Bull's eye

I don'tknow the relevance of the cow on the AIUK logo,but it does remind me of an incidentinvolving my club. We used to shoot on a large field,most of which was hidden beyond a ridge,we shot on the top half.The farmer usually had sheep on the field so he told us to chase them over the ridge where as they couldn't see us they forgot about us and we didn't see them again. Occasionally however he put bullocks in the field and they presented more of a problem,basically what we had to do was set up the Archery equipment and then en masse we would charge them and they would disapear over the ridge. The problem was that after about half an hour they would remember us and come and have another look, so we would have to charge them again this usually went on 2 or 3 times during the evening, down bows and charge worked every time. However one evening we had chased the blighters away for 2 times when they came back again, it was always tempting to shoot round them but they tended to like chewing the straw targets so they had to go.So down bows again and charge, however this time was diferant and when we were in mid charge they parted into 2 groups and they had brought reenforcements , between them was the biggest bull you have ever seen who then stopped between the targets and stared at us( he did not look ameana'bull' or agreea'bull'). We all stopped mid charge and looked at each other, somebody said "Pub", so we reversed off the field , it wasn't a rout just a strategic withdrawl we would be back! In the pub we were quite happy and considered the Bulls eye ,but they were small and beady ,the bull's backside would have made a far better target but by this time we were happy in the pub so there we stayed.
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