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[wildebus]

My English Archery Club yesterday (my Scottish Archery Club is on Mondays ) and did some clout shooting.
Idea with Clout is to try and get as close to a peg some distance away.

Initial problem is actually seeing the peg .... photo taken from the shooting line

If you look carefully, you can see a white peg - not that one, that's the juniors peg.
Look more carefully and there is another peg with a white flag on it - not that one, that's the ladies peg.
keep going further out and there is a peg with a yellow flag on it - that's the one! That's the gentlemens peg set at 165 Metres. Quite pleased with myself that I actually managed to get within 5 metres of it with a couple of arrows

Still got a dodgy ankle and going to retrieve arrows and back to the line is a 1/5 mile walk each time so I switched to target shooting instead.
30 Metre distance was still a bit of a hike when you do a couple of rounds

 

[Bouydog]

You have better eyes than me, yellow flag ???

 

[nabsim]

No chance I would see those in the pic, may in real life but may well not lol

 

[RoaminRog]

What yellow flag BigD ?

 

[Bouydog]

What yellow flag BigD ?

Exactly

 

[TeamRienza]

Better to use a trebuchet and fire dead cows. Improve your hit rate.

Davy

 

[wildebus]

What yellow flag BigD ?

Very hard to see the flag in the photo, but with the naked eye you can just about make out a post once you know when to look.

A view from the flag to the other end of the field .... (the shooting line is a few meters nearer than the horsebox (the white roof on the left edge of the field).

 

[CWH]

Sadly my club folded during lockdown. Next nearest is a couple of drives and a 1h40 ferry ride away. You're so lucky to have 2 nearby!

 

[wildebus]

Sadly my club folded during lockdown. Next nearest is a couple of drives and a 1h40 ferry ride away. You're so lucky to have 2 nearby!

Certainly closer than yours for sure, but the English club is still a 30 minute drive each way.
"Down south", so say somewhere like in the East Berkshire area (where I kind of orginate), I saw around 10 clubs within a few miles of each other -incredible!

 

[CWH]

Certainly closer than yours for sure, but the English club is still a 30 minute drive each way.
"Down south", so say somewhere like in the East Berkshire area (where I kind of orginate), I saw around 10 clubs within a few miles of each other -incredible!

This is my wee horsebow which is completely bare (I also have a "short longbow" which has the added luxury of a shelf)

 

[wildebus]

Looks good I quite fancy having a go at one of those sometime. I have the "Olympic" type of Recurve Bow (I do like my gadgets )

 

[CWH]

They really are great fun, though I think the two types ('bare' & 'gadget') provide completely different sports

 

[Campervanannie]

I won an Archery competition when I was about 12 at Butlins Holiday Camp Filey I still remember how much I enjoyed doing it.

 

[wildebus]

I won an Archery competition when I was about 12 at Butlins Holiday Camp Filey I still remember how much I enjoyed doing it.

I was going to bring some kit to Kelso one year for people to have a go but apparently wouldn't be covered by insurance? (not sure why as arrows would have big rubber bungs on the end rather than points)

 

[Reiverlad]

Hi David, Sounds like you enjoy your archery and have great fun with that.
With my dad being from Kilwinning, I know all about the Kilwinning society of Archers and their unusual papingo shoot.
Have you ever had a go at that, or fancy trying that ?

 

[wildebus]

Hi David, Sounds like you enjoy your archery and have great fun with that.
With my dad being from Kilwinning, I know all about the Kilwinning society of Archers and their unusual papingo shoot.
Have you ever had a go at that, or fancy trying that ?

I'd never heard of that so just had a little search about it ... sounds like good fun might have to try and see about introducing something like that as a fun competition. (Getting a target 120 foot up ready to shoot at could be a bit tricky though so bit of adaption could work?)

 

[Reiverlad]

Tbf - Kilwinning archers have had a long of history with their papingo shoot !!
The silver arrow trophy is absolutely magnificent !!