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* Contents * Shoot R New Features 40-42 Fort Purbrook Company of 08 & 09.08.2020 4-5 Archery on the Big Screen 12-15 “Another face of archery” by 74-76 Wharfe Valley Archers 20 Dreamcraft Bows 96-97 South West Challenge 2020 16 Puzzle Time #1! 105 Regent Archers 26.07.202 22-29 FAN UK would like to 108-109 Overton Black Arrows Wate introduce “Bowmeisters Field Archery Club” Tournament incorporating 62-66 FAN UK introduces “Bogenbau 11 & 12.07.2020 Rockhasuer” 82 Puzzle Time #2! 112-115 UKIFAC 2020 Field Archery 91 Puzzle Time #3! Archery 11 & 12.07.2020 92 “Wood Fever” BOOK REVIEW 100 Puzzle Time #4! 118-119 The High Weald Archery Cl 106-107 FAN UK is proud to the Sussex 3D Field Champ introduce “Del for Leather” 122 Toad Hollow Announcement 124-125 The Welsh and Open Field A 123 Rednex Announcement Pentref Bowmen 26 & 27. Regulars 127 Delamere Field Archers 04 10 Cartoons by Via Verde 36-38 HOODS & MAIDS 44-47 Del the Cat’s “Bowyer’s Diary” 52 Cartoons by Via Verde 128-129 FAN UK’s Dogs & Crossbows List so far! 2

Reports Shoot Entry Forms Bowmen 6-9 Delamere Field Archers 03.2020 0 & 21.06.2020 18-20 Pentref Bowmen Winter 0 01-09.08.2020 Masters 2019-2020 20 ership Down Open Field 32-34 Company of Sixty 15.03.2020 the SCAS Championships 54-59 STAFAA 3D Unmarked Indoor Championships @ Wexford shoot 29.02.2020 & 01.03.2020 lub WA 3D Field shoot incorporating 68-73 SFAA Scottish Indoor Archery ps 29 & 30.08.2020 Championship 2020 Archery Championships 2020 @ 78-80 Wolfshead Field Archers .09.2020 23.02.2020 04.10.2020 84-87 One Man & his shoot - Barry Cheadle’s open shoot 23.02.2020 Photography COVER Jason Quinn, Audris-Hart Field Archers 51 Mark Service 94 Adam Browning 102 Bernie Stafford 116-177 Fritz von Weinsberg / Armin Hirmer 120-121 Kate Blinston 122-123 HBS Photography REAR COVER Richard Thompson 3

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Delamere FA Open Shoot Results March 2020 ~ Report & pics provided by Bernie Stafford ~ Storm Jorge kept the Open Shoot in doubt right up until the preceding Friday; fortunately however, the Sunday was a glorious, sunny day with clear blue skies - although also with a bitterly cold wind. 111 archers had booked in, & after cancellations & no-shows 105 actually turned up. The safety brief started at 10:05; all archers were in place and the shoot started at 10:23. Over a hundred archers were \"parked,\" \"registered,\" \"catered,\" \"raffled\" and \"medalised\" and the last score cards were signed by 16:28… pretty impressive work, and thanks must go to the club members who turned up & worked so hard to make the day a success. It says something when the biggest problem on the day was running out of bacon!! GENTS AFB N. Lakes 564 Allan Caruthers N. Lakes 466 Phil Nelson N. Lakes 446 Gordon Keown Sabden Fold 406 Pete McGiffen Muttley Crew 398 Tony McConnell Blaidd 342 Brian Cavanagh Independent 530 LADIES AFB Trish Gramauskas Sabden Fold 430 JUNIOR U16 AFB Audley Parish 356 James McGiffen Firebird 522 JUNIOR U12 BB Independent 398 Ben Jackson Blaidd 388 Foxhill 372 LADIES BB Kath Harrison Jacqui Johnson Kayleigh Darlington Kiri Francis 6

GENTS BB Clayton 588 Leroy Smy 550 1 spot Independent 550 Philip Johnson Audley Parish 540 Doug Laird Muttley Crew 532 Steve Smith Audley Parish 518 Paul Farrimond Blaidd 498 Gareth Hill 464 Muttley Crew 456 Chris Malcomson Foxhill 450 Barry Dixon Blaidd 376 Colin Price Y.O.D 582 Robert Barrett Seedfield 580 Peter Arnold 7 GENTS BH Derwynd Chris Porter Independent Gus Gramauskas LADIES BH Independent 432 Jessica Hackett GENTS CL Redoubtables 726 Rob Pierce Independent 652 Steve Brown GENTS COMPOUND UL Tony Hunt Lyme Valley 788 Tom Stanworth Blaidd 784 764 Spencer Martin Redoubtables 762 758 Chris Wilkinson Firebird 728 Trevor Hayward Orion Bowmen 682 680 Chris Smith Foxhill 676 658 Eruic Hawrot Wyre Hall 652 Nathan Smith Independent Lee Witherington Muttley Crew Tony Commander Foxhill David Shanks Firebird CUB U12 COMPOUND UL Ben Witherington Muttley Crew 684 GENTS HT Derwynd 544 Peter Plunkett Nick White Black Arrow 538 Dag Thomassen Draig Goch 532 Paul Baker Luke White Ind. 522 Martin Leonard Jim Hodge Black Arrow 508 Lewis Chuck Pennington 506 Mark Duerden Chris Moon Seedfield 498 Francis Hall Stuart Bartram Duvelle 496 Firebird 490 3 spots 1 spot Robin Hood Longbowmen 490 DW Longbow 488 Independent 464

GENTS HT continued... Independent 464 Stuart Bartram Independent 458 Mike Smith Mel Mayer Clayton 456 Tony Yeardsley Audley Parish 406 Derek Fuller Foxhill 402 Chris Jordan Y.O.D 398 Paul Delves Howard Roberts Redoubtables 390 Geoff Weldon Redoubtables 378 Harry Atkinson Muttley Crew 370 Kendal 178 JUNIOR U16 HT Jamie Owen Independent 340 JUNIOR U12 HT Blaidd 324 Ben Cavanagh Dolphinholme 362 LADIES HT Robin Hood Longbowmen 350 Janet Wood Independent 308 Anne Moon Y.O.D 270 Julia Baker Blaidd 206 Lynne Roe Sarah Cavanagh - Retired Susan Gill 8

Girl U14 HT Blaidd Girl U12 HT 384 Abi Cavanagh 294 Chloe Livingstone Foxhill 438 GENTS LONGBOW 348 Michael Strong Harlequin 458 LADIES LB 390 John Pendleton Duvelle 440 Jan Booth Independent 232 228 Alan Beatty N. Lakes 434 Alison Rayson Dolphinholme 452 Neil Beeby DW Longbow 430 446 412 Mark Overton Foxhill 376 JUNIOR U14 LB 330 308 Colin Cavanagh Blaidd 292 Max Smith Independent Peter Wood Dolphinholme 288 GENTS TBH LADIES TBH Skip McDowell Bowmeisters 556 Sarah Taylor Foxhill Marc Dellerba Ken Davies Kendal 538 Toria Hough Independent Graham Lord Blaidd Paul Egerton Firebird 532 Andy Brown Bowmeisters DW Longbow 520 PRIMITIVE GENTS Paul Curtis Mark Gill Blaidd 514 James Baxter Independent Toby Bateman Kendal Mike Kenna Blaidd 508 Steve Mee Pennington James Barrett Firebird Y.O.D 502 Brian Robinson Dolphinholme Ray McCaffrey Terry Rich Blaidd 478 Andrew Booth Independent Pat Kenny Bowmeisters Derrick Reeves Seedfield 472 Dennis Lounds Audley Parish Bowmeisters 438 432 416 408 2 spots 408 292 9

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~ The Pentref Bowmen Winter Masters 2019-2020 ~ By David Jones. Pentref Bowmen held their final shoot of this series on the first of March, following the atrocious weather of February. As an area which was badly hit by the rain with considerable flooding we would like to send our best wishes to any of those who were also caught up in these extreme circumstances. The shoot, however, was blessed by a dry day - a rarity in this area - which made it a very pleasant change for all those that attended. As the club is hosting the World Archery British 3D championships in May we decided that in order to retain our current stock of 3D targets we would try the Gamut 2D targets alongside our paper and 3D targets. The 2D faces looked very good on the bosses, the vinyl material being waterproof is a real advantage, and they were well received by the archers. 18

The club has its own insurance so were able to welcome archers irrespective of their organization to the shoots; this meant that the final results sheet had a large and diverse number of styles represented. The competition was held over the winter on the last Sunday of each month, with each shoot consisting of 14 x 2 targets with a mix of 3D and paper faces - with each of that day’s score counting toward the total result. The scoring system for the targets was similar to the NFAS 3D and GNAS Animal rounds, with a scoring sheet given to all archers to assist them as a number of the archers had not shot an animal round previously. Their comments at the end of the shoots showed that they had all enjoyed the course and the challenge of a different style of archery. As it was an open in the fullest sense of the word - the shoot groups were a good mix of organization, bow style, age and archery characters. With an age spread of 70 years between our young champion Ruby and a venerable but still competitive Keith, there was a good atmosphere both on the course and in the club house. Guess which one is which? 19

Warm food was provided at each shoot, with Bron working like a Trojan in the kitchen to satisfy a very grateful group of cold and, on occasions, very wet archers. The trophies were hand-made by the club secretary - John Ryan Davies - and were well received by each of the winners, being both unusual and unique to the Masters. Anyone who won had to have completed a minimum of 3 competitions, and the number of awards presented showed the level of commitment by a great group of archers to come and shoot irrespective of the weather, or international Rugby games. In the AGB styles:- Paul Lidden Pentref Gents Compound U/L Judith Stolzenburg Pentref Ladies Compound U/L Wynn Jones Pentref Gents Compound Barebow Jason Rual Pentref Gents Recurve Niamh Rual Pentref Ladies Recurve U15 Jeff Williams Pentref Gents Barebow Evan Howells Pentref Gents Barebow U12 Amelia Thomas Pentref Ladies Barebow U15 Ruby Davies Pentref Ladies Barebow U12 Ceri Thomas Pentref Gents Traditional Peter Lewis Pentref Gents AFB Jack Feist Blandy In the NFAS styles:- Steve Hepburn Hawk Gents Trad Bow Hunter Gail Sullivan Pentref Gents Hunting Tackle Jane Feist Blandy Ladies Hunting Tackle Neil Feist Blandy Ladies Barebow Kevin Scallan Blandy Gents Longbow Primitive Pentref would like to thank all those archers who came along for any of the shoots for helping to make this multi-organisational event a success. 20



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~ Company of 60 ~ Shoot Results 15th March 2020 Our first shoot of the year was one of the biggest ever, attracting 139 archers, as it seemed the world and his wife wanted to get a shoot under their belt before the Corona virus shut the world down. The great turn-out was welcome, not least because this was a memorial shoot in memory of our much-missed club coach Debbie Wood-Downer, who sadly passed away recently. As well as a collection on the day, half the shoot fees are being donated to charity, meaning both The British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK will receive over £300 each. Conditions for archers were challenging, and we’re not even talking about the targets. The course layers had made full use of what appeared to be strategically placed ready-mixed mud, whilst the wettest February on record delivered some interesting ‘water hazards’ for people to navigate. Both our Christmas Tree and Savannah courses had a full complement of 3Ds which kept our visitors busy long into the afternoon. They rewarded us with some truly outstanding scores... so impressive that during the medal presentation our Master of Ceremonies, Stefan, doubted people’s maths! Top marks to the course layers who battled with the weather in the weeks prior to the shoot to set some excellent shots. Praise also to Lorraine and her catering team of Amie, Claude and Roy, who kept hungry archers on the go. Shaun Bateman, Company of 60 Events Officer. Open shoot results: Gentlemen Longbow Gents Longbow continued... Ken Payne Magic Dragon 616 George Hirst Magic Dragon 448 612 434 Patrick Hutchinson N Somerset FA 606 Kieron Andrews Medsoc 406 578 324 Roger Grew Thornbury 574 Simon Pratt Bridgewood 574 Paul Skippins COPRA 558 Colin Wright Magic Dragon 550 Ben Knight COPRA 462 430 Julian Rivers Magic Dragon Ladies Longbow 424 Mandy Linn Martin Sutton Thornbury Pennie Grew Rat Pack 472 494 Lesley Dutton Thornbury 410 Paul Bromwich Medsoc 484 Jackie Willoughby Independent 322 480 Independent 288 Phil Faithful Medsoc 400 250 Mike Yates Longbow Heritage Junior Longbow Ladies Primitive Kieren Griffin Medsoc Shana Innell South Wilts 494 Ladies Hunting Tackle Gentlemen Primitive Clair Parfit Aurora Rob Slatem 1066 Field Archers 472 468 Anna Swan Wight Co FA Ken Whittiker Raven 428 378 Linda Palmer Rat Pack Alan Jones Rat Pack 336 Georgina Hernandez Raven FA Phil Marr Senlac Linda Yates Longbow Heritage Nick Gentle COPRA 32

Gentlemen Hunting Tackle Ladies American Flat Bow Tony Young South Hams 740 Niki Marr Senlac 514 738 502 Roger Massey 1066 Field Archers 728 Cathy Kerr Wight Co FA 670 Steve Hipgrave South Hams 656 622 Steve Rand Invicta 616 Gentlemen American Flat Bow 606 Andy Doyle Independent 578 Terry Jones Osprey 716 570 606 Dave Moore 1066 Field Archers 550 John Marshall Magic Dragon 600 482 584 Tim Seed Bridgewood 482 Simon Rivers Magic Dragon 576 522 576 Rob Pointon Fleet Ibex 452 Chris Rowston Thornbury 534 450 520 John Cappello Belvedere 244 James Brown Magic Dragon 458 458 Alan White South Wilts Rod Harris Fleet Ibex 454 310 Martin Hulme Wasp Nicholas Mitchell Belvedere Peter Eldridge COPRA 1S Garry Panter Wasp Peter Parker Rat Pack Bobby Moor Bridgewood Graham Davies Fleet Ibex Robert Head Raven Brian Proehl Cloth of Gold Mick Maxen Cloth of Gold Nigel Pogson Raven FA Barrie Cooper Independent Tony Cox Independent Gentlemen Barebow Ladies Barebow John Barcroft 1066 Field Archers 774 Julia Paris 734 Ange Lindsay South Wilts 620 York Gibson Thornbury 684 Emma Ralph Thornbury 506 662 Jane Rivers Raven 500 Garry Frisk Oakwood 630 Magic Dragon 416 774 Martin Joy Aurora 734 684 Glenn Bolton Bridgewood 662 630 John Barcroft 1066 Field Archers 612 592 Junior Barebow York Gibson Thornbury 590 Dylan Parsons 554 Senlac 510 Garry Frisk Oakwood 534 460 Martin Joy Aurora Cub Barebow Glenn Bolton Bridgewood Emily Anthony Liam Sutton Thornbury 592 Lee Sutton Bridgewood Bridgewood 412 Adrian Mercer Magic Dragon Brian Horne Magic Dragon Gentlemen Freestyle Ken Sparham Aurora Terry Stevens Independent 782 Noel Mates South Wilts 618 Mike Youngman Rat Pack 592 Stephen Green Senlac Steve Munnings Independent Junior Freestyle Gentlemen Bowhunter Ashton Cox Independent 552 Mark Anthony Thornbury 766 742 Dave Andrews Cloth of Gold 668 Ladies Compound Unlimited Slavica Vojinivuc COLA Phil Maher Independent 672 Gentlemen Compound Unlimited Gentlemen Compound Unlimited cont’d... Stewart Fenwick 1066 Field Archers 872 Steve Palmer Raven FA 860 Adam Browning Aurora 862 Juray Valovec Independent 852 33

Gentlemen Compound Unlimited cont’d again! Cub Compound Unlimited Jason Sawdy Independent 834 Xander Munns Independent 608 Mick Lee Hartspring 830 Nick Hearn Hartspring 810 Ladies Traditional Bowhunter Mike Davidson Fleet Ibex 804 Bev Brown Thornbury 520 Adam Valovec Independent 802 Linda Lehane Bridgewood 430 Ken Scott Raven 784 Angelika Kovacic Fleet Ibex 394 Matt Carstensen Independent 516 Zoe Burges Bridgewood 358 Lneka Volovska 1066 Field Archers 332 Gentlemen Traditional Bowhunter Tom Milner 1066 Field Archers 752 Tony Barnatt 1066 Field Archers 704 Oli Skuse Thornbury 682 John Nicholls South Wilts 674 Chris Perks South Wilts 652 Ben Ringshaw Fleet Ibex 650 Steve Black Fleet Ibex 644 Roy Fisher Bridgewood 4S 628 COMPANY OF SIXTY CLUB RESULTS: Mark Brown Thornbury 1S 628 Gentlemen Barebow Andrew Lehane Bridgewood 626 Paul Wilson 538 Tom Williams Bridgewood 618 Tim Godman 516 Gareth Pearson Noak Hill Archers 614 Peter Arterton Bridgewood 608 Cub Barebow Keith Nolan Souths Wilts 602 Megan Godman 292 Tylaar Haran Fleet Ibex 588 Mark Proctor Thornbury 528 Gentlemen Traditional Bow Hunter Richard Huggett 1066 Field Archers 696 Paul Brewer 662 Peter Morgan Cloth of Gold 582 Ben Edwards Senlac 454 Gentlemen Hunting Tackle Ian Christie 588 34



Welcome to Hoods & Maids! If this feature is new to you, they are my unique way of celebrating stunning shots (both jammy & skill) that only Robin Hood or Maid Marian themselves would’ve been able to pull off. It is also my way of celebrating the shots we all either dream of hitting or are so lucky that they need scoring before they fall out of the target! We all, regardless of age/ability, appear to rack up a fair few of these shots in our field archery careers so it was also my way of trying to include more people and show off their shots and celebrate them as the stars they are – albeit having stood in a healthy blob of jam or simply from being rather a fine shot, both are most welcome here! Ricochets, Barnes-Wallis classics, lucky legs, tree shots, “in-off”s, wind- assisted, carried into the target by well-paid woodland creatures, Robin Hoods, Pickering Awards (AKA the Pines Park Special!)… ALL are welcomed with open arms! Good shooting & please do share! You’re worth it ;-) Hels 36

The lovely Debra Tullin was nominated by her husband Jeff. He told Hels: “Here's a picture from a January practice round at Forest Bowmen Field Archery club in the Nottingham area. Shot by my wife Debra at 40 yards... it wasn't a kill, but we like to think that the Wolverine was helpfully collecting our misses and playing fetch!” Lady Debra “Crufts potential” Tullin, we salute you! ;-) 37

Commenting solely with the following, much respect!! ;-) “By the skin of it’s tail!!! But I’d still take the points… … …” Top bombing big man - keep ’em coming!! All you need to do is email me, Hels, on [email protected] or get in touch via Facebook or the FAN UK website, including the following information:- * Your name and club (if applicable) * Name of the archer whose shot/s are being nominated * Where and when the pictures were taken * Any information you feel will boost your nominee’s chances of being inducted! * You CAN nominate yourself if you wish - no problem at all!! 38



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“The Bowyer’s Diary” by Derek Hutchison, AKA ‘Del the Cat’! Planning ahead... First thing to mention is that the bow repair in the last instalment was a complete success. An experimental repair like that is a very useful test bed for ideas and theories and becomes another trick to have up my sleeve. I’ve a few bows to make for various friends varying from a 35# ELB to a flight Warbow, most of these will be Yew backed with Ash or Bamboo. Now that’s a fine plan if only I had the Yew and Ash, (I have plenty of Bamboo). Up in my stash I have some Yew from 2018/2019 which is ready for inspection so I carefully climbed the stepladder of doom and got down all the staves. It’s a mixed bag with 3 decent clean warbow staves, all a bit deflexed, which isn’t much of a problem in a warbow as it stops ‘em flipping over on the tiller when first being flexed. There as the odd skinny stick bow stave… and just what I needed - a big fat stave that the sapwood had been sawn off (presumably due to rot)! There was also a very curved stave which might yield a couple of nice heartwood billets too. The big fat heartwood stave was very promising as it had already been roughed out fairly square and with some careful layout I reckoned I could get a full length belly stave and two billets. The problem with my collection of random billets is trying to match up the thickness (obviously a 35# doesn’t need as much thickness as a 120#) 44

the grain direction and general quality. None of the billets are perfect, but knots can be filled at the preparation stage before gluing on a backing. Well now I had my Boo’ and my Yew, how about some Ash? I remembered the whereabouts of some quartered Ash logs cut years ago by Chris Boyton when he ran a bow making course at Celtic Harmony Camp. A quick exchange of e-mails and a phone call led to me driving over there to pick up the remnants. I was back in a flash with nice stash of Ash! There was one really good quarter log and some other scruffy bits and staves. The staves will be handy to give to putative bowyers to play with. The Ash looked really filthy, but a few strokes of the plane shoed up the lovely clean wood. I like the way that what goes around, comes around. Only the other day I’d given a newbie bowyer a 5’6” roughed out Hazel stave which he rather butchered, so I showed him a brief demo’ of the tillering process with the remaining 4’ of stave! I gave him a second which has now become a bow. I’d been slightly reluctant to give away the second stave but then I’m giving all that Ash, all good karma (I did put a tenner in the donations box for the camp and gave them a lovely old Yew character bow which was too marginal to shoot, as a wall hanger). 45

Having made a start with the Ash backings I started trimming some bamboo stats too, and sanding the Yew. Unfortunately my old belt sander just doesn’t have enough grunt to do a decent job even with a coarse (40 grit) belt, it’s pretty much worn out and I’ve been looking for a replacement for a while. There seems to be little between “hobby” sized machines of ½ horse power at about £85 and big industrial ones nearer £500. I came across one in ‘Machine Mart’ - 1hp for £310, but it was being discontinued. It’s mostly made of cast iron, there were none left in the warehouse, but they had one in Cambridge. I’m normally a tad careful with cash, but I’d had my money’s worth out of the old one and I thought I’d regret it if I didn’t go and get the last one in the shop. I expect the new model will be worse quality, sheet steel rather than cast and probably more expensive. I bought it, blimey it’s heavy... and like a lot of tools it needed some adjustment, greasing and setting up to getting working smoothly. I’ve also had to make some minor modifications to the dust extractor system as it protruded up above the belt which is no good when running a long stave over it. I’ve just given it 46

its first real test and it is brilliant, I could bear down hard on a 40mm wide Yew heartwood stave to prepare it for glue up and it sanded it flat with no problem. The improved dust collector did the job too, collecting all the dust that shot past the end of the belt. It’s already proved good investment for backed bows and laminates. The Ash backed Warbow is now on the tiller and pulling 90# @ 26” (pictured right > > > > >). I recently finished a 45# @30” Bamboo backed Yew which I’ve been told shoots arrows out like a f*&%ing laser beam! I’ve also done an 85#@28” ELB from a scruffy Italian Yew stave which had rather dodgy looking grey discoloured sapwood (pictured below). 47





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