Hi everybody!
Things have been a little quiet recently on the competition from since the Nationals, there has been a gap of a few weeks with nothing on. However the Archery Interchange UK forum run a winter competition at this time of year, and the Welsh leg of the shoot was at my home club Pentref Bowmen.
The round being shot was the Frostbite, which is 7 dozen arrows at 30m, at an 80cm face. I went up bright and early and put all the target bosses out and pegged out the shooting lanes. The weather has been absolutely atrocious recently with record rainfall (the second wettest winter since records began!) so the ground was absolutely waterlogged and muddy, but that wasn't going to stop us bunch of brave archers (for brave, read idiot) from shooting!
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| Chris Bruno and myself at the start, before the rain moved in! |
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| Freezing cold and wet, thrilled to be here! Feel sorry for Chris, he forgot his waterproofs!! |
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| There were prizes for silliest hat! |
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| Milly (the organiser) with her Mongolian bow, ready to rock! |
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| Gavin looking suave under pressure, competing against Milly! |
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| Milly taking a shot with the Mongolian. |
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| The mud at my shooting peg, at least consistent foot placement was easy! |
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Maya is set up for 18m 3 spot with huge heavy X7's and they would've been blown everywhere in that wind. AIUK class all compounds together regardless of how they are set up (its only a friendly comp anyway) so I shot Vasquez in Bowhunter style. It made quite a nice break to shoot a Bowhunter style bow at spots instead of 3D or animal faces.
It rained on and off for most of the day, at times quite heavy so the trench coat at wide hat stayed on all day, and the pile of hand warmers I brought with me made me very popular! In the end I put in a score of 783/840 which put me in 6th place out of all AIUK compounders - happy with that considering the conditions we had! The winning score was 796 and I reckon I could beat that if I had Maya in outdoor config (getting cocky now!), so there is always next door when Maya will be set up ready and I have a dedicated indoor bow.... watch this space
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