FEBRUARY_MARCH_2019 FAN UK

I hope this has given more of an insight and perhaps inspired some of you to give it a go. I will look forward to sharing with you all a different type of homemade target soon with “Gummy the Crocodile”! To see all the Photos of Paul and the Zombies builds, or if you have any questions - or maybe you would like to commission me to create a target for you - then please come and visit me on Facebook @LambindraStudio https://www.facebook.com/LambindraStudio/ A little later in the year I made a couple of Zombies for Halloween which we named Bill and Ted. I used the exact same process but played 51

Photograph by Adam Browning Location: Aurora FAC New Year shoot, 13th January 2019



Aurora New Year shoot th 13 January 2019 The forecast was good, the course was set and the archers came – all 120 of them with nearly 30 unlucky ones still on a reserve list. A quite extraordinary level of support from our archery friends for our New Year shoot 2019, something that we never take for granted and hugely appreciate, thank you so much to every single one of you. Thank you too for your wonderful feedback, it's good to know that we're doing it right, that you enjoy visiting us and are keen to return for more. A chilly and blustery day made for good shooting conditions bearing in mind the time of year. A period of unexpected rain just before kick-off caused a flurry of waterproof activity, but this quickly cleared with the remainder of the day even treating us to the occasional glimpse of sunshine. As always we had lots of laughter, great food, delightful woodland, plenty of head scratching and of course, the occasional expletive. Well, we wouldn’t have done our job properly if we didn’t elicit some cursing! Being ever-conscious of the limited daylight hours at this time of year, we used the same format that worked so well last year. We laid a tricky 2x20 course with each target double-pegged, restricting it to two-arrows max per target with any second arrows to be taken from the same peg as the first (red for all adults, blue for juniors). This allowed us to have six archers per target, which under normal circumstances would be a real struggle but I am delighted to report that the whole day ran like clockwork with everyone done and dusted mid-afternoon with plenty of daylight remaining. Massive thanks and congratulations to Stewart Beckham and Paul Little for creating the course, a challenging and very deceptive track with beautifully laid targets maintaining a totally natural setting. Proof positive that smart course design and clever use of the terrain will always challenge even the best archers. Great job guys and fully appreciated by all those who attended. On now to the traditional and totally deserved roll call of thanks to everyone that made the day possible and such a success. To every member of Aurora that helped in any way over the weekend and during the run up, a sincere thank you, you are all brilliant. Specifically and in no particular order, Teresa and the whole catering team for serving up the culinary delights for the assembled masses. To the various folks that helped me in Admin including Nadine and Stacey, thanks for keeping me in order and not forgetting of course Stacey for also being our wonderful Lady Paramount. To Mark Jones for waving his magic wand over some of our ‘older’ targets resurrecting them back to their prime, especially the croc with its pearly white teeth! Great job. To Tom and Molly from Radical Bikes for your limitless support and humour in allowing an army of 120 archers take over your ground for the day, and last but no means least, to Lord Petre for kindly allowing us all to enjoy his fabulous Parsons Spring woodland. We look forward to welcoming you once again for more fun in the woods at our August two-day shoot. In the meantime, be well, shoot straight and keep smiling. By Martin Joy 54

AFB - M Score/Spots AFB - F Score/Spots Mark Jones 692 6 Pennie Grew 542 2 Roger Massey 666 3 Theresa Hearne 242 2 Andy Doyle 642 5 Simon Rivers 634 3 BB - M Julian Rivers 586 3 Andrew Lehane 670 2 Andrew Joyce 572 1 Mike Gregory 656 2 Mick Maxen 504 2 Ron Patterson 646 5 Bob Moore 484 1 Tom Rushton 646 0 Barrie Cooper 454 1 Garry Fisk 636 2 Roy Gatehouse 398 1 Chris Rushton 402 1 BB - F Score/Spots BB - U16G Score/Spots A chilly and blustery day made for good shooting conditions bearing in mind the time of year. Jane Rivers 522 3 Zoe Hill 234 1 Diane Rigby 332 3 Sheila Ovenell 324 0 BH - M Score/Spots As always we had lots of laughter, great food, delightful woodland, plenty of head scratching and Vikki Motchman 292 0 Phil Maher 748 7 Denise Locke 238 1 Colin Rose 718 6 Carl Tagg 644 4 BH - F Score/Spots Jim Gillespie 576 3 pegged, restricting Sue Birch 572 4 Olivia Morgan 454 3 CL - M Score/Spots This allowed us to have six archers per target, which under Duane Williams 812 13 FS - M Score/Spots Andrew Knott 718 8 Terry Stevens 836 15 Richard Gardiner 818 14 FS - F Score/Spots Massive thanks and congratulations to Stewart Beckham and Paul Little for creating the course, 786 11 Lisa Fowler 628 2 Patrick Wright a challenging and very deceptive track with beautifully laid targets maintaining a totally natural Jade Gregory 354 0 Damien Lewington 764 7 Andrew Devlin 760 8 Lawrence Goodall 680 6 FS - U16B Score/Spots Kevin Stewart 546 2 Ashton Cox 362 0 HT - M Score/Spots HT - F Score/Spots Steve Osborne 612 2 Alayne d’Attoma 516 1 Graham Radford Specifically and in no particular order, Teresa and the whole catering team for serving up the 600 5 Brenda Pilbeam 438 0 Michael Ashington 554 4 Samantha De-Buriatte 404 1 Nadine and Stacey, thanks for keeping me in order and not forgetting of course Stacey for also Dave Moore 514 0 Jan Beckham 358 0 Brian Proehl 452 2 Clair Parfit 354 0 Shaun Beckham 420 1 Barbara Bayne 318 0 To Mark Jones for waving his magic wand over some of our ‘older’ targets resurrecting them back Simon Tucker 346 0 Graham Birch 336 1 LB - F Score/Spots Tom Tomczyk 264 0 Freda Marshall 498 1 Tony Cox 260 0 Julie Fuller 490 1 Terry Chittock 228 0 Sylvia Marshall 442 1 Alex Tyler 438 1 PV - M Score/Spots Karen Freeman 360 0 Kevin Button 584 2 Katharine Roper 354 2 Lawrence Wiles 562 3 Lynette Fisher 304 1 Mark Peet 512 0 Carol Clark 282 1 Dave Noad 340 0 Lesley Dutton 264 0 55

LB - M Score/Spots TBH - M Score/Spots Alain Jacq 620 3 Mark Stockton 738 9 Alberto Martinelli 596 5 Steve Parry 690 6 Gerry Tierney 586 2 Ben Ringshaw 690 6 Ian Stanley 568 3 Tony Barnatt 630 4 Cliff Nash 560 0 Timothy Cathmoir 594 4 Simon Pratt 524 1 Roy Fisher 584 3 Phil Stratton 518 1 Adrian Mercer 526 1 Roger Grew 504 3 Glenn Bolton 516 2 Keith Sharp 500 1 Colin Lightfoot 506 2 Alan Benson 474 1 Andrew Gilfrin 486 2 James Walker 464 2 Iain Morris 360 3 Peter Warner 458 1 Stephen Robinson 358 1 Ben Hearne 424 2 Roger De-Buriatte 320 0 Robert Webb 424 0 Sean Morris 250 0 Jonathan Broad 406 0 Scott King 390 0 TBH - F Score/Spots Stuart Fuller 322 1 Lynne Harrison 646 4 Kevin Hill 220 0 Linda Lehane 508 1 UL - M Score/Spots UL - F Mark Wiseman 892 25 Sue Dickenson 834 20 Ian Malcolm 870 24 Ryan Mills 860 17 Steve Dickenson 836 16 Steve Williams 832 18 Dennis Ife 828 15 Michael Lee 774 9 Nick Hearn 760 12 Howard Ife 744 8 Barry Hardy 650 4 **Huge thanks to ADAM BROWNING for these awesome photographs** 56

53

58

59

FAN UK FEATURE: FAN UK FEATURE: FAN UK FEATURE: ~ Fairday 2018 ~ ~ Fairday 2018 ~ ~ Fairday 2018 ~ Fairday 2018, The Netherlands... Last year’s event (2017) was a blast and this one promised to be a more challenging shoot. Apparently the course-laying team wanted to “spice things up a little” by making the shots more challenging, the course longer and with “different” shooting scenarios to handle was one way of ding it for sure - the Dutch team can tick that box… BRAVO! The site was the same as last year, about 5 miles from Nijmegen on the Dutch German border. It’s a scouting activity centre all year round, except for the harsh winter months. A perfect site for misadventure, with gravel roads and walkways for easy access, proper showers, washing facilities and not a ‘Turdis’ in sight! The scouts are all gone too, so the site is vacant, private and peaceful. The catering is superb - full English breakfast to start the day off properly fuelled, coffee and tea available all day and night, chicken satay, yummy variations of Dutch hotdog things with unpronounceable names and plenty of staff to serve, so no long queues for anything. The terrain featured some of those things the Dutch call “weird” hills, plenty of different variation in shot locations to be taken advantage of - natural blemishes and awkward trees, bushes, obstacles and natural debris make you think twice on almost every shot. The brief was to allow for minimum 2 levels of difficulty on every shot - be that trees, slopes, debris, hidden ground dips, balance point, uphill, downhill, under, over, short, long, restricted draw length obstacles, standing, sitting, kneeling, lying flat... no shot was repeated at all throughout the course and whoever thought up the “shoot from a swing” shot deserves a medal! Again, like last year, Fairday is a traditional bow only shoot - bring sights and you’ll be laughed at, in many languages. There’s all sorts of trad 60

full English breakfast used, but everybody shoots in the same group. There’s 3 categories: 1) fun, 2) laughs, and 3) both of the above. If you’ve come to compete and win prizes, you’ll be the odd one out. The Saturday daytime 3D shoot was particularly brutal in places. The arrow-killing spider in the log pile was there again, but this time, you had to shoot from a raised bank, downhill - and from a kneeling position if you wanted to clear the overhanging variation in shot locations to be taken branches. Watch your bottom bow nock on that one! The crocodile at long distance: just in front of a strategically placed log, the dragon across the pond: if missed would leave trees, bushes, obstacles and natural debris your arrows coated in stinky bog-mess, the deer through the V: just ignore the V was the make you think twice on almost every shot. advice, oh, and the bear in the woods- that was real fun for the English Warbow guys! To answer your question, does it? Yes, plenty, many times (judging by the mass of broken arrows behind it). Ring the raised bell with a flu-flu - Clang! Stuff a scrap arrow through a computer monitor, no problem- don’t bother collecting it, it’s dead now. Lie on your back to shoot a “thing” from under a curtain- now that’s different! 3 rats, 3 arrows, one at each - miss one and that could be an expensive arrow-eating target, miss 3 and Fairbow’s resident Goliath Magen will gladly replenish your ammo... 61

Speaking of which - THAT Fairbow marquee, stuffed full of mortgage-killing goodies. The carbon layered back-set Rebel Hill style AFB’s are to die for. Ebony and - erm - help! The Saturday night Zombie shoot is great fun. If you’re an instinctive archer, this is your time to shine. Gap shooters, I wouldn’t bother if I was you. The only things lit are the gravestone pegs (pluk) and one light on the target. Of course, they’re all zombie-related, and it’s 3 arrows maximum at each (stop after you hit it). LED nocks are encouraged, no torches allowed, everything surrounding you is pitch black, so you can’t see the tip of your arrow at all. The pathway from target to the next peg is clearly lit with glow sticks, and obviously the Fairbow team have done a huge amount of safety checks to make this an enjoyable course for all. It’s a great way to bond with your fellow team mates and - unlike last year (we had all of October’s rain in 2 hours I think) - this was a dry shoot. It never disappoints. The catering is still running after the shoot and I can recommend the soup (again, unpronounceable) with meatball things. A whisky (or two) with some new friends made and it’s time for zzzz. Sunday promises to be fun. It’s warm, and dry again, which is unusual for October. First off at 10am is the Dutch Warbow Society shooting big heavy longbows, throwing out broomstick-sized arrows with anvil-shaped heads at some seriously far distances. It’s awesome to watch the regulars do it properly. 62

Then comes the Clout competition - 6 ends of 6 at a small white circular target set at 180 paces. 4 details, with approximately 15 shooters in each. The gents shoot first, then walk forwards for the ladies, then again for the juniors. I swear there’s a ringer in that event - some pint-sized assassin… he keeps dropping his arrows, if not into, within a foot or so of the target, consistently putting points against his name, end after end. The event finishes, and prize giving shows the Brits (men) take the first 4 places (2 guys shooting 110+lb flatbows)…. and yes, the super ninja junior warrior steps forward to claim the top spot. Huge congratulations to the dude though- he’s 10 clear points above everyone else- that’s no easy feat on a clout. Then, after a quick bite of more unpronounceable no torches allowed, everything surrounding you is pitch black, so you can’t see the tip but delicious food, it’s the 3D Hunter round. One arrow at each target. Pressure time. Shoulders, legs, feet are all aching. The stamina has gone, I’m completely shot-out, the body is saying this was stop and I should be wearing one of Magen’s “I’m too old for this sh*t” T-shirts at this stage. So, after the self-realisation that kryptonite poisoning has set in after 12 or so targets, I take the string off the bow and opt for the walk the course option instead, offering the usual poor taste in jokes and laughable encouragement to my fitter team mates of course. shaped heads at some seriously far distances. What a great weekend though. Great shooting, lovely people, plenty of laughs and giggles and superb organisation and hosting skills on full display by the Dutch, again. Time to hit the road. I suspect my spare Euros will be spent on coffee shares at multiple service stations en-route. Fairday 2019? Where do I sign? 63

64



Del The Cat’s “Bowyer’s Diary” ~ Changing Times ~ by Derek Hutchison (AKA Del the Cat on various archery forums!) The new year has turned over, Winter has kicked in and I’ve been pondering my plans for the year. Some of my ‘to do’ list has already been done, a jig for doing those fancy four point footings on arrows and I’ve made a heavyweight primitive/Neolithic-style bow, bamboo backed Yew 120# @31”. Something else on the list for winter is to help my mate JT harvest a lovely plum stave from the tree in his back garden. He’s got provisional permission from his better half, but it will probably be best if she’s out for the day when we do it! The Footing Jig:- I’d been intrigued by 4 point footed arrows for some time and some searching the web found some videos showing how it’s done with an expensive jig. “I can make one of those” I thought and promptly set to. Well, like a lot of things, it’s easy in theory, but the devil is in the detail. I used a couple of off-cuts of Ash plank and routed in two grooves to clamp the arrow at an angle which was guess work. The first mistake was I made two right handed pieces… I’m sure we’ve all made that mistake! I sorted that and clamped the two parts together with a bit of shaft in the groove to hold it aligned. This allowed me to drill holes for steel alignment pins and a bit of threaded 66

rod for clamping. Once that was done I could square up the faces on the belt sander. For the first try, I guided the jig (with shaft clamped into it) along the table of my mill, with the router bit in the mill rotating at full speed above it and set to take a shallow cut (a pillar drill or router would do the job). I guided the jig against a length of suitable timber to keep it running true, but the router bit cut a rather flat bottomed groove and tended to tear, so I had to carefully grind its tip to a better point. The groove cut along the shaft at rather a steep angle which would give a very short splice so I had to make adjustments by sanding the bottom of the jig to change the angle, of course this gave a splice that was too long! Once it was cutting at a reasonable angle, I could cut the groove depth to just short of centre on the shaft. The shaft was then rotated 90 degrees and another groove cut… this is repeated twice more such that the end of the shaft looks like a cross, which gradually tapers out to nothing, this is the male part. The other half of the splice is much easier. I squared off a scrap of Yew on the band saw, and then cut two slots along it, so that looking at the end the slots formed a cross, the female part. The two parts push together nicely, the pics are of the first rough try out just to prove it works. When doing it seriously and gluing the parts one should clamp the female part at the base of the saw cuts to prevent splitting along the shaft. 1 Overall it’s a lot of fiddling about, but once it’s been done a few times I’m sure that beautiful results can be obtained. My personal interest is probably for flight arrows, but I’m not sure how well it will work as they are very skinny. I’ve done simple V splices on field arrows and flight arrows to great effect and I’m intrigued to see if these 4 point ones will be an improvement. I thought and promptly set to. Well, like a lot of things, 67

Something I’ve noticed recently is the preponderance of archery and bow making groups on Facebook (FB). Some of the archery websites are now getting less traffic and there is more interchange of ideas, info and help on FB. I was very pleased to help and mentor two guys who were having a go at making Hazel primitives. They were both posting pictures and asking rather random questions initially, but with some online guidance and prompting they both ended up with decent looking bows of about 40# @ 28”. It was very interesting to see how well it progressed once a dialogue was established. Compare and contrast with the sort of acrimonious threads that occur all too often. My brother told me of an article he’d read in a journal which was researching how and why people held extreme views (taking GM crops as the subject). It found that those who held extreme views believed themselves to be very knowledgeable on the subject, but when tested, it turned out that they weren’t. I think it should be called “Armchair Expert” (AE) Syndrome. I had a classic the other day, someone innocently asked is it ok to use shafts made from shoots with just a fire hardened tip and no actual arrow head (like a primitive arrow) or would it be like a dry loose? This was from a 45# self bow. I gave my opinion that it is fine, backed up with experience with light weight flight 68

arrows, I also offered a scientific explanation as to why it is ok. I pointed out that most of the weight of an arrow in in the shaft not the point. I’d even gone out to the garage and weighed a seasoned Hazel shoot shaft. At every point this AE disagreed but never offered any explanation. Ah, then I remembered the irrefutable evidence! Several times at field shoots, using a self bow of 45# , I’ve lost the point off an arrow, but accidently shot it again! The only ill effects were missing high… pretty conclusive eh? What’s his response? “It’s not about whether it has a point or not” Eh? What? That’s exactly what the question was about! At that point I just blocked the idiot. Why the rant? Why the article in a journal? I think it’s because the problem isn’t what we don’t know. It’s the fact that some people don’t even realise that they don’t know! In offering bad advice or perpetuating myths, they do a disservice to those who actually want to learn. I’m sure some of you will remember the much spoofed speech by Donald Rumsfeld, at the time of the Iraq war, about the ‘known knowns, known unknowns and the unknown unknowns’. He actually had a valid point, but expressed it so badly as to make himself a laughing stock. Anyhow - if anyone wants to argue with me on this matter, Something I’ve noticed recently is the they can apply using form 1D 10 T ;-) Compare and contrast with the sort of acrimonious threads that occur all too often. I had a classic the other day, someone innocently asked is it ok to use shafts made from shoots with just a fire hardened tip and no actual arrow head (like a primitive I gave my opinion that it is fine, backed up with experience with light weight flight 69

70

71

72

https://phoenix-archery.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/phoenixarcheryuk/

FAN UK would like you to meet FAN UK would like you to meet FAN UK would like you to meet BLACKRIDGE ARCHERY... BLACKRIDGE ARCHERY... BLACKRIDGE ARCHERY... Please introduce yourself to us ... who are you and where are you from/do you live? We are local Archers who all live in and around Driffield, East Yorkshire - Jon, Stuart and Dave. What is your business, how long have you been doing what you're doing and how has it all been going so far? Where does the name come from? We are a full length, LED lit and heated indoor The name came from a brainstorming session at Archery shooting range and retail shop with one of our indoor club sessions, from memory meeting facilities. We have a proper range not black dog started the train of thought (as we a warehouse with targets! We opened in March both have dogs) but this was too close to other this year and thanks to the support of local names already out there, so Blackridge was Archers things are moving forward. We will born. continually try new things and are open to ideas which will benefit the Archery community. Where does the name come from? The name came from a brainstorming session What is your experience/interest in at one of our indoor club sessions, from memory archery - do you shoot? What inspires black dog started the train of thought (as we you from an archery perspective? both have dogs) but this was too close to We have been shooting approx. 6 years, getting other names already out there, so Blackridge the push from our kids after they saw archery was born. in the 2012 London Olympics. Since then we became heavily involved with our local club From your own interest/participation and both myself and Stuart managed to become in archery, what do you love the most Yorkshire champions. about our awesome sport? It’s availability to almost everyone and the When/where/how did your archery jour- enjoyment that people get from hitting the ney and subsequent business begin? What target, usually first time. We are all coaches made you want to set up Blackridge? and love the buzz you get from teaching people The Blackridge idea came from having to our great sport. travel 60 plus miles taking hours to get our own archery equipment. We are extensively Do you have a preferred style of shooting? experienced in retail and understand that the Between us we shoot all bow styles and customer experience is of vital importance, most disciplines. people buy from people! Building lasting relationships is key. 74

What style of field archery do you take repair most things that are repairable! We also part in (i.e. GNAS/AGB, NFAS, IFAA etc.)? cater fully cater for the more modern set ups Again - between us we shoot shoot most disci- including Olympic Recurve and Compound bows. plines… target, clout and field. both have dogs) but this was too close to Do you have any NEW things coming How can customers contact you? soon? If so, can we have a clue or a sneaky peek?!!! We can be contacted by phone: Everything is new at the moment! The 01377 254818/07484 874924 range especially really does give a fantastic atmosphere for Archers of all disciplines to Email: [email protected] practice and share their ideas with one another. It’s availability to almost everyone and the or in person - we are open 7 days a week. enjoyment that people get from hitting the What is there specifically for field archers target, usually first time. We are all coaches within your range that you feel What products and services do you offer? would benefit our readers? We can supply all traditional archery We have a full length range with six bosses equipment - our stock is growing by the and most target faces. Indoors is not always week and anything we don’t have will be preferred by archers but at least it is better procured and dispatched to the customer Between us we shoot all bow styles and than no shooting at all due to inclement usually within a couple of days. We stock a range of Adrian Hayes Longbows and arrows. weather or dark nights, it also gives a relaxed We make and supply our own arrows and can atmosphere to check set ups and maybe try something different, benefitting all disciplines. 75

Is there anything you would like to tell our readers about yourself that they won't already now know?! Come and give us a try, we are different and will always go that extra mile to ensure that we deliver a great customer experience. We also sponsor our local Field Club - Regent Archers - by way of supplying the score sheets for their shoots in January and in the summer. 76

Come and give us a try, we are different and will always go that extra mile to ensure that we by way 77

STAFAA Flint Championship th 4 November 2018 “Fantastic day at STAFAA Indoor Flint Championship! 13 new records smashed… thank you to all who attended. Great atmosphere and friendly rivalry. Special thanks to everyone who baked cakes and for generous contribution’s to the raffle, all to raise money for Children in Need 2018!!! Thank you to all who helped with setting up the hall, catering and clearing away at the end of the day.” By Linda Sutherland 78

Special thanks to everyone who baked cakes and for generous to the raffle, all to raise money for Children Thank you to all who helped with setting up the hall, 79



BALLYVALLY ARCHERY NEWS ~ by Frank Mulligan ~ £500 RAISED FOR THE BUDDY BEAR SCHOOL A cheque for £500 was presented to the Buddy Bear School as a result of the Ballyvally Club’s Big Bear Shoot in Banbridge Leisure Centre and the raffle of an original oil painting of the Mournes by the Chairman of the Board of Governors, Mr. Brendan McConville. Orla O’Connor, just fresh from her triumph winning the team award at the Irish 3D champs in Wicklow [with Alan Convery and Ruth Gilmour], was just in time to find out she had won the oil painting! The Buddy Bear school is for children with cerebral palsy and helps bring a specialist from Switzerland to help the children. This school receives little or no help from the Department of Education. The club would like all those archers who contributed to the fund raising. TOP SCORE FOR SAM! At Ballyvally’s annual indoor shoot at the weekend in Banbridge leisure Centre, Sam Jackson outdid all his previous scores by a very large amount! Shooting a magnificent 549 shooting barebow style, he won the gents barebow class in style. Four archers achieved their “100” badges… Michele Foster [106], Ethan McKinney [100], Andrea Hamilton [103], Scarlet Dodds [101] and no less than 7 archers won their 105 badges - Kathryn Morton [109], Marion Patterson [108], Sinead Byrne [114], Stuart McCullough [112], Amanda Byrne [110], Dean Hamilton [119!] and Jake Walsh [117]. Some other excellent scores were recorded. Other very good scores were recorded by Kay Kelly [452] and Samantha Leonard [454] in the senior class and Zac Sinnamon [441], Eleanor Walsh [455], Andrew Harron [425] and Zack Kelly [454]. 42 archers attended the tournament. CLASS WINNERS: Winners in the cub class were Scarlet Dodds and Zack Kelly while in the older juniors Stuart McCullough and Sinead Byrne had the top compound scores, Lara Kinkaid the top American flatbow score and Kathryn Morton the top barebow score. In the traditional wooden arrows sections Paul Wheeler [Mongolian Horse bow] and Andrea Hamilton [traditional] came tops. In the final knock out Kathryn Morton and Romaine Mehaffey beat all the other archers to reach the final… Romaine Won! The award for Cub of the tournament went to Claire Loney who shot an excellent 315 at this her first competition! 81



83

Welcome to this issue’s “Hoods & Maids” - this time dedicated to one man whose finely tuned skills and élan have been tragically hidden from us… until now! This first edition of 2019 sees two awesome ‘Archers of Dolphinholme’ inducted into our “Hoods & Maids” Hall of nomination, put forward by the lovely Alison Rayson, starting with PETER WOOD... Alison put forward an awesome case for him - “I hesitate to over populate ‘H&M’ with our club members but humbly submit this one: Peter Wood did, this day, attempt to pull the whiskers off the dread beast daring to imitate his own magnificent facial hair (or 'by the hair of his chinny chin chin'). Approx 35 yards at North Lakes Open.” Arise Sir Peter Wood, chin-grazer of Archers Dolphinholme!! 84

Our second inductee is EMILY MCHUGH... Alison, while nominating Emily, shared this about her triumphant shot - this time dedicated “I I humbly nominate m'lady to one man whose finely tuned skills and élan have been Emily McHugh with this ear piercing attempt done from approximately 18 yards slightly uphill, done this This first edition of 2019 sees two awesome ‘Archers of Dolphinholme’ inducted into day 10th October 2018 during a our “Hoods & Maids” Hall of nomination, put forward by the lovely Alison Rayson, perambulation through our wood, whilst being attacked by falling leaves, enjoying the sun(!) and extolling the virtues of field archery to a couple of new members being signed off. The competition for the Hartley-Robinson trophy is very close this year.” Arise Lady Emily of Dolphinholme, rogue pig-piercer of woodland far & wide!! 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 nomination’s chances of being inducted! * You CAN nominate yourself if you wish - no problem at all!! 85

86

87





90

Our FAN UK Embroidered Patches are available for you to buy! Our beautifully embroidered “Field Archery News UK” sew-on patches feature a pale cream background, our distinctive black logo and ruby red edging. Lovingly crafted for you they are superbly detailed and 65mm in diameter. ~ Only £3 each including postage & packaging (UK & worldwide) ~ To own yours simply go to http://fieldarcherynewsuk.wixsite.com/fanuk/patches or email [email protected], stating the quantity of patches you would like, your name and your address with full postal/zip/area code please. Once payment has been received your patches will be on their way to you. 91

92

93

94

Owner: Armin Hirmer Photographer: Fritz von Weinsberg

Meet the FAN UK Meet the FAN UK Meet the FAN UK Contributors! Contributors! Contributors! I am extremely excited to introduce you another of my awesome regular contributors that help to make Field Archery News UK online magazine what it is. I would - yet again! - like to say an absolutely enormous thank you to all of my lovely contributors for all of your hard work & generosity in sharing your creations with not only me but also the FAN UK readers, you’re all truly wonderful & I most certainly couldn’t do this without you - Hels :-) x Meet the author of our terrific feature “The Bowyer’s Diary:- Meet the author of our terrific feature “The Bowyer’s Diary:- Meet the author of our terrific feature “The Bowyer’s Diary:- Name: DEREK HUTCHINSON A.K.A. Name: DEREK HUTCHINSON A.K.A. Name: DEREK HUTCHINSON A.K.A. Del or Del the Cat on archery forums! Del or Del the Cat on archery forums! Del or Del the Cat on archery forums! Location: Harlow, Essex About me: I’ve been making bows since I was a kid (I’m 66 now), mostly self bows, from numerous different types of wood. I have also made laminated bows with glass fibre laminations on back and belly. I’m into making things generally including sculptures and painting. One of my sculptures, a deer, is in the Gibberd Garden in Harlow. My bow-making and archery has seen me on television and invited over to the USA. I’m a member of NFAS, ILAA and get invited to some Medieval Society shoots. I generally shoot a Yew primitive bow, but being a bowyer I get to shoot most of the bows I make. The heaviest bow I’ve made so far is a 150# Yew warbow (too heavy for me to shoot). The strangest is the Chinese repeating crossbow. I’ve recently become interested in flight shooting wooden bows and my PB has slowly increased to 341 yards with an Osage bow. The internet has been a big influence over recent years and I try to spread the interest in bow-making on various archery forums and with my YouTube channel (Del Cat) which has a 10 part video build-along of a Yew English Longbow and a 6 part Yew Warbow build along. There is also my Bowyer’s Diary of course, which originally was just an aide memoire for myself. It’s a good source of information for anyone wanting to have a go at making a bow, or repairing one. Unlike some sites online, the search facility actually works quite well. Website/blog/links: http://bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/ (Blog) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuIXWVWhlT-dgrLnQKCWpQ (YouTube channel) One particularly interesting thing I’ve made is my Archer Automaton, which I built shortly after I retired. I wanted to see if I could get a realistic shooting action (rather than a fancy finish)… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UajIxPdUZVE 96

I am extremely excited to introduce you another of my awesome regular like to say an absolutely enormous thank you to all of my lovely contributors for all of your hard work & generosity in sharing along. There is also my Bowyer’s Diary of course, which originally was just an aide Photographer: Mark Service Pictured: Stacey Service shooting in “Moonshine” at Aurora FAC’s New Year shoot, 13th January 2019



https://twitter.com/NewsukField https://www.facebook.com/FieldArcheryNewsUK/ Don’t forget to visit the FAN UK website too for updates, shoot dates & photographs: http://fieldarcherynewsuk.wix.com/fanuk Field Archery News UK’s Events Calendar is updated every day with shoots for the forthcoming year … don’t forget to keep checking in at - http://fieldarcherynewsuk.wixsite.com/fanuk/event-calendar If you wish to Donate to support FAN UK just visit:- http://fieldarcherynewsuk.wixsite.com/fanuk/donate 99