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[tel]

Totally agree that outdoors is 'where its at' - and also that indoors gives you the oppurtunity to work on technique etc. I was just thinking that there is a long time between seasons, and with no light in the evenings and the weather being what it is indoors is better than nothing....

[Andy1960]

I think that there I may have the advantage of you.

I finish work between 3:30 and 4pm most days, and as the range is only 5 minutes drive away, even in the depths of winter I can generally get to shoot 1 or 2 times in the week. Of course, there's always the weekends

[Thunk]

At Warlingham we shoot outdoors all year. We have an indoor range available on Wednesday evenings but numbers are strictly limited (12 max) and the range is too short to shoot a recognised round.

We run our beginners courses twice a year (April and October) and have a school playing field which is big enough to hold a second shooting line at right angles to the first, so the beginners don't interfere with the experienced shooters and don't get to feel rushed by having everybody wait for them.

From what I can see, the initial rate of joining is about 50%. However, I consider the real rate to be the percentage who attend throughout their first year and rejoin when the next subs letter comes out...

[Andy1960]

I'm with you on that one Thunk. As we allow the cost of the beginners course to offset their first years fees, we usually get about 50% signing up. It's only when the subs letters go out that they decide that archery's not for them. There must be hundreds of people, all over the country with perfectly good kit stashed away in lofts and sheds who don't shoot anymore