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Illawarra All Bow Team Challenge
Illawarra All Bow Team Challenge
Sunday April 20, 2025
Another One in the Record Books!
updated 21/3/25
A great day of team archery, with 5 teams competing for the coveted Golden Arrow. Congratulations to Northern Archers, coming out on top, despite the best efforts of the SOPA team and three teams from our own Illawarra Archers!
Fiona was at her fiendish best, with the cut-out challenge in the second round. This proved to be a mental and tactical minefield for all competitors' shooting skills! (including for her own team???, one of whom was heard to actually request shooting a Wand target instead)
As if that wasn't enough, Fiona devised a special guess-(and hit)-the-mystery-spot on the bug target. Well done to Hoggie and David for their powers of intuition and luck to come the closest to Fi's spot picks. Great minds think alike, fools seldom differ.
Thanks to Gordon, Con, and Mick for standing in at the BBQ, and for Kelly and Mark for the BBQ supplies (despite not being able to attend on the day).
And special thanks to Fiona for all her hard work to make this day such a success!
We will be back next year, so think about getting your team ready.
The Illawarra All Bow Team Challenge (previously known as the Illawarra Archers Executive Team Challenge) is open to any 4-person team of mixed shooters to a fun day of competing on the range. The teams must have one each of compound, sighted recurve, barebow recurve, and longbow shooters. And, of course, a great team name!
The teams compete over two rounds of different distances, with the separate disciplines shooting together while their other team members, and any others in the open gallery, cheer their archers on. There may, at completely inappropriate times, be some high spirited comments and helpful suggestions and observations for opposing team members. Team scoring is combined off bow.
The details:
Round 1: 3 ends of 6 arrows each:
Compound - 60m
Sighted Recurve - 50m
Barebow Recurve - 40m
Longbow - 30m
BBQ Lunch
Round 2: 3 ends of 6 arrows each:
Compound - 50m
Sighted Recurve - 40m
Barebow Recurve - 30m
Longbow - 20m
Presentations
The emphasis is on fun for archers and their supporters, with lunch included.
Rules:
· Scoring is off-bow.
· Each team must have a team name
· Each archer in a team must shoot only one discipline
· A club may enter more than one team, however all members of each team must belong to the same club
· Associate members may shoot for a club team, but can only shoot for one team
· Cheering and good-natured heckling encouraged
DATE
Sun 20 Apr 2025
Shooting commences: 10:00 AM
REGISTRATION
cost: $40
LOCATION
Illawarra Archers
330 Mt Keira Rd, Wollongong NSW 2500
Longbows on the line.
Cheers and jeers from the gallery
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