AIUK: The American Shoot - who's shooting what?

[PorlyP]

Originally Posted by Kellog

It can be a *LOT* harder doing it barebow Porly tho I know I could jsut about make 100yrds with my xx75's!

hehe, oops, missed the barebow bit, kinda important word to miss out!

That'll teach me to scan that fast!

Yeah, 60 is tricky with longbow, took me 6 shots to hit it the first time I tried!

[PorlyP]

Originally Posted by ruthmc

Show-off! I still can't hit 60 with my longbow!

Is it as light as your recurve though?

I tried my mate Marshall's, a 50lb bow.

[PorlyP]

Originally Posted by ruthmc

Nope, heavier, about 34lb at full draw.

But you misunderstand me - I can get the distance, just not the accuracy!


I am quite good at hitting trees with it though - ask me about that on Sat

Ah, ok, sorry about that, I thought you were very accurate on sunday!

[Murray]

I'll be an American/Recurve if I get there!

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Murray

I'll be an American/Recurve if I get there!

Thanks, Murray, thought you may be

If you come to the shoot, will you be travelling down on sea turtles?

[PorlyP]

Originally Posted by ruthmc

That was with the recurve But thanks!

Looking back over previous scores, I never shot above 400 on a 6 doz round before last Sunday, previous pb was about 39something, so without realising it at the time I actually got a new pb for a Short National as well with my 451

Really must start writing these things down..

That's wicked! Really was a great day for shooting, in a great place, so it helped/inspired us both a lot!

[Meddler]

Originally Posted by Dave

Furface has just pointed out a mistake I made with the distances for the St. Nicholas round! The St. Nic is 50yrds and 40yrds. If anyone is coming to the American and was going to shoot the 40yrd/30yrds I mentioned then I will put out an extra target if you don't want to shoot 50.

Cheers, Nick, next time I'll look at the rounds a bit closer

Dave,

Shoot me down in flames if you will, but the St Nicholas is indeed 4 doz @ 40 and 3 doz @ 30. See Page 3-8 of the Rules of Shooting. 2006 version

If this came from the 2004 GNAS Rules of Shooting, it was wrong. Just like it said a Stafford was 5 doz - it's actually 6 doz...

Iain.
aka Meddler

[Dave]

heheh, cheers Iain. Best we sort it before Saturday else we'll be toing and froing with targets all morning

[Furface]

but also . It seems we have been truly Meddled. The handicap tables back Iain up, so it was not a mistake in the new version.

[JohnK]

Originally Posted by PorlyP

I'll be shooting 60, with platinums! Only just got my sight mark, I'm sure you can do it with x7s!

As Kellog says, barebow's a lot different

I would be shooting the full American round if I'd had time to set up my Navigators and check the sight marks, but I don't so I won't