Boston Winter Indoor Series 2007/8

[Watch_Man]

Friskney Bowmen will again be hosting the Winter Indoor Series at the Peter Paine Sports Centre in Boston.

Consisting of 5 x2 Rounds both Imperial and Metric between November 2007 and March 2008.

40 places will be available and once current champions have been sent their invitations, the event will be open to anyone else who would like to shoot. Options are for an AM or PM or both with prizes for the highest scores in either morning or afternoon. Where both rounds are shot then the highest score counts. There is also prizes for team and husband and wife. Highest scoring archers in the series will also receive awards at the last shoot.

This is usually very popular and every year so far has seen a waiting list develop.

For an entry form and more information and a timetable of the rounds to be shot please visit - Friskney Bowmen - Indoor Series 2007-8

The entry form should be released around the 3rd of September.

[phil_r_58]

My entry will be going off as soon as it comes on line !, My daughter wants to try as well. Do the invites go to past champions ? In my last series, when you held them in Skeggy, I won every round and the series trophy.

So much for the intention of coming back into archery and avoiding competitions, just shooting for fun. It's my 9 yr old daughters fault, honest guv'. She is out in the garden practising for the Den Ingham memorial shoot EVERY evening, on top of the shooting days at the club.

[grimsby archer]

Originally Posted by phil_r_58

My entry will be going off as soon as it comes on line !, My daughter wants to try as well. Do the invites go to past champions ? In my last series, when you held them in Skeggy, I won every round and the series trophy.

So much for the intention of coming back into archery and avoiding competitions, just shooting for fun. It's my 9 yr old daughters fault, honest guv'. She is out in the garden practising for the Den Ingham memorial shoot EVERY evening, on top of the shooting days at the club.

The older ones among us can remember this shoot being in the Golden Sands Ball Room in Mablethorpe. More bosses than you could count, but no room behind the shooting line for kit as the hall was very very wide, but only 25 feet long.

Thanks for the heads up about the entry form WM. Last year my fellow archers were late in getting application forms in and then having to wait a couple of months for the people who book the whole series to decide they cant make them all and drop out. I heard one archer just sent Janet a blank cheque with the instructions to fill in the numbers. Thats a popular shoot

[phil_r_58]

Originally Posted by grimsby archer

The older ones among us can remember this shoot being in the Golden Sands Ball Room in Mablethorpe. More bosses than you could count, but no room behind the shooting line for kit as the hall was very very wide, but only 25 feet long.

Thanks for the heads up about the entry form WM. Last year my fellow archers were late in getting application forms in and then having to wait a couple of months for the people who book the whole series to decide they cant make them all and drop out. I heard one archer just sent Janet a blank cheque with the instructions to fill in the numbers. Thats a popular shoot

Yes, I used to go to the Golden sands too. Now that was a popular shoot, like you say more targets than you could imagine nowadays. Enough competitors for the owners to open at lunchtime profitably. And Keith Gascoine used to set up a Marksman Archery stand in an alcove behind the line, selling nocks, fletches tabs and other odds and ends.

I was only teenager at the time of the Golden Sands shoots. My mate Chris Baynham went for walk on the beach as we got there early. Chris thought it was a laugh wave dodging. Till he ended up spending the day shooting in soggy shoes and trousers Of course we gave him lots of sympathy and understanding

I always thought the Pavilion at Skeggy was lacking space. At the far end where Dennis had to put all us compound field archers, bows were always getting knocked over, and no room for chairs because of the fire escape doors, which we could not set up near. The caretaker used to watch us like a hawk. Dennis had to put all us field archer compounder's up there out of the way, because he used to get complaints about our "mirth making" from a small group of Target archers.

[Watch_Man]

Malcolm is sending out invites to current holders only together with invites for the County AGM shoot - He thought he could kill 2 birds with one stone (Chris).

The entry form is ready but just needs Malcolms say so to put it live. We have a long distance night at the club tonight so I will chase him up and make sure the invites went out OK to last years winners.

[grimsby archer]

Originally Posted by Watch_Man

Malcolm is sending out invites to current holders only together with invites for the County AGM shoot - He thought he could kill 2 birds with one stone (Chris).

The entry form is ready but just needs Malcolms say so to put it live. We have a long distance night at the club tonight so I will chase him up and make sure the invites went out OK to last years winners.

Whats a "long distance night"? Is that where you all get totally legless and walk three times round the field before you find the clubhouse?

Phil_r_58 - I seem to remember some 33 bosses, with still room for more at the golden sands. mind you a holiday camp in february was a bleak and desolate place

[english_archer]

Originally Posted by grimsby archer

Whats a "long distance night"? Is that where you all get totally legless and walk three times round the field before you find the clubhouse?

To acommadate both target and field archers on club night us target archers are restricted to 40 yards on club night So some bright spark came up with the idea of long distance evening just for target shooting at 100,80,60,and 50 yards and we had a really good turn out so more to follow.
Oh and the same bright spark has been "volnteered" to organise a frostbite shoot this winter.

[Watch_Man]

Originally Posted by english_archer

To acommadate both target and field archers on club night us target archers are restricted to 40 yards on club night So some bright spark came up with the idea of long distance evening just for target shooting at 100,80,60,and 50 yards and we had a really good turn out so more to follow.
Oh and the same bright spark has been "volnteered" to organise a frostbite shoot this winter.

Well volunteered Craig

[english_archer]

Originally Posted by Watch_Man

Well volunteered Craig

AWW shucks I just cant say no after the non starter that was the summer tassel Im just glad to have one of my "bright ideas" work
SOOOOO any ideas for when to have the frost bite ? how about the week between christmas and new year ?

[Watch_Man]

Originally Posted by english_archer

AWW shucks I just cant say no after the non starter that was the summer tassel Im just glad to have one of my "bright ideas" work
SOOOOO any ideas for when to have the frost bite ? how about the week between christmas and new year ?

Sounds good, and with the current weather pattern we will probably need sun screen and be able to shoot the frostbite in shorts