The National Flight Championships at RAF Church Fenton saw reasonable but not brilliant weather. Despite this, several World and British records were set. The weather held right up to when the measuring got underway, then the skies slung bucketloads at us.
Disappointingly for me, there were no planes flying - I had been hoping to get a picture of someone shooting a specialist flight bow with a plane in the background. Oh well.
Bobcat and I called angles for each other. I managed about 270 metres with the recurve (under-50-pounds category), shooting 610 Navs with 90 grain points. Alright for a first attempt. Bobcat got substantially further. My efforts with the compound (under-45-pounds) only managed about 260 metres. I should have taken up Shirt's offer of some A/C/Es - the A/C/Cs I was shooting were much too heavy and slow, with most of the energy going into shoving them six inches into the ground.
Measuring, calculating and presentations took blummin' ages.
Barry Groves had rather a good day, winning the somewhat disturbing Uncle Hat trophy (a centuries-old janissaries helmet) for the 15th time in 16 years. Then he announced his retirement from flight shooting. Certainly going out at the top.
Good day, good company and medals for AIUKers - congratulations to Kellog, Shirt, Michael and everyone else.
18-08-07, 08:20 PM
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