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* Contents * * Contents * * Contents * Shoot RShoot RShoot R40-42 Fort Purbrook Company of 08 & 09.08.2020 74-76 Wharfe Valley Archers 2096-97 South West Challenge 2020105 Regent Archers 26.07.202108-109 Overton Black Arrows WateTournament incorporating 11 & 12.07.2020 112-115 UKIFAC 2020 Field Archery Archery 11 & 12.07.2020 118-119 The High Weald Archery Clthe Sussex 3D Field Champ124-125 The Welsh and Open Field APentref Bowmen 26 & 27.127 Delamere Field Archers 0New Features New Features New Features 4-5 Archery on the Big Screen 12-15 “Another face of archery” by Dreamcraft Bows 16 Puzzle Time #1! 22-29 FAN UK would like to introduce “Bowmeisters Field Archery Club” 62-66 FAN UK introduces “Bogenbau Rockhasuer” 82 Puzzle Time #2! 91 Puzzle Time #3! 92 “Wood Fever” BOOK REVIEW 100 Puzzle Time #4! 106-107 FAN UK is proud to introduce “Del for Leather” 122 Toad Hollow Announcement 123 Rednex Announcement Regulars Regulars Regulars 10Cartoons 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

Shoot Entry Forms Shoot Entry Forms Shoot Entry Forms 6-9 Delamere Field Archers 03.2020 18-20 Pentref Bowmen Winter Masters 2019-2020 32-34 Company of Sixty 15.03.2020 54-59 STAFAA 3D Unmarked Indoor shoot 29.02.2020 & 01.03.2020 68-73 SFAA Scottish Indoor Archery Championship 2020 78-80 Wolfshead Field Archers 23.02.2020 84-87 One Man & his shoot - Barry Cheadle’s open shoot 23.02.2020 Photography Photography 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 Reports Reports Reports Bowmen 0 & 21.06.2020 0 01-09.08.2020 20 ership Down Open Field the SCAS Championships Championships @ Wexford lub WA 3D Field shoot incorporating ps 29 & 30.08.2020 Archery Championships 2020 @ .09.2020 4.10.2020 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 Allan Caruthers N. Lakes 564 Phil Nelson N. Lakes 466 Gordon Keown N. Lakes 446 Pete McGiffen Sabden Fold 406 Tony McConnell Muttley Crew 398 Brian Cavanagh Blaidd 342 LADIES AFB Trish Gramauskas Independent 530 JUNIOR U16 AFB James McGiffen Sabden Fold 430 JUNIOR U12 BB Ben Jackson Audley Parish 356 LADIES BB Kath Harrison Firebird 522 Jacqui Johnson Independent 398 Kayleigh Darlington Blaidd 388 Kiri Francis Foxhill 372 6

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

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

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

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18 ~ The Pentref Bowmen ~ The Pentref Bowmen ~ The Pentref Bowmen Winter Masters Winter Masters Winter Masters 2019-2020 ~ 2019-2020 ~ 2019-2020 ~ By David Jones. By David Jones. 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.

19 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?

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:- Gents Compound U/L Paul Lidden Pentref Ladies Compound U/L Judith Stolzenburg Pentref Gents Compound Barebow Wynn Jones Pentref Gents Recurve Jason Rual Pentref Ladies Recurve U15 Niamh Rual Pentref Gents Barebow Jeff Williams Pentref Gents Barebow U12 Evan Howells Pentref Ladies Barebow U15 Amelia Thomas Pentref Ladies Barebow U12 Ruby Davies Pentref Gents Traditional Ceri Thomas Pentref Gents AFB Peter Lewis Pentref In the NFAS styles:- Gents Trad Bow Hunter Jack Feist Blandy Gents Hunting Tackle Steve Hepburn Hawk Ladies Hunting Tackle Gail Sullivan Pentref Ladies Barebow Jane Feist Blandy Gents Longbow Neil Feist Blandy Primitive Kevin Scallan Blandy 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 15 March 2020 thOur 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 Patrick Hutchinson N Somerset FA 612 Kieron Andrews Medsoc 434 Roger Grew Thornbury 606 Simon Pratt Bridgewood 406 Paul Skippins COPRA 578 Colin Wright Magic Dragon 324 Ben Knight COPRA 574 Julian Rivers Magic Dragon 574 Ladies LongbowMartin Sutton Thornbury 558 Mandy Linn Rat Pack 472 Paul Bromwich Medsoc 550 Pennie Grew Thornbury 410 Phil Faithful Medsoc 462 Lesley Dutton Independent 322 Mike Yates Longbow Heritage 430 Jackie Willoughby Independent 288 Junior Longbow Ladies Primitive Kieren Griffin Medsoc 424 Shana Innell South Wilts 494 Ladies Hunting Tackle Gentlemen Primitive Clair Parfit Aurora 494 Rob Slatem 1066 Field Archers 472 Anna Swan Wight Co FA 484 Ken Whittiker Raven 468 Linda Palmer Rat Pack 480 Alan Jones Rat Pack 428 Georgina Hernandez Raven FA 400 Phil Marr Senlac 378 Linda Yates Longbow Heritage 250 Nick Gentle COPRA 336 32

Alan White Gentlemen Hunting Tackle Ladies American Flat Bow Tony Young South Hams 740 Niki Marr Senlac 514 Roger Massey 1066 Field Archers 738 Cathy Kerr Wight Co FA 502 Steve Hipgrave South Hams 728 Steve Rand Invicta 670 Gentlemen American Flat BowAndy Doyle Independent 656 Terry Jones Osprey 716 Dave Moore 1066 Field Archers 622 John Marshall Magic Dragon 606 Tim Seed Bridgewood 616 Simon Rivers Magic Dragon 600 Rob Pointon Fleet Ibex 606 Chris Rowston Thornbury 584 John Cappello Belvedere 578 James Brown Magic Dragon 576 South Wilts 570 Rod Harris Fleet Ibex 576 Martin Hulme Wasp 550 Nicholas Mitchell Belvedere 534 Peter Eldridge COPRA 1S 482 Garry Panter Wasp 520 Peter Parker Rat Pack 482 Bobby Moor Bridgewood 458 Graham Davies Fleet Ibex 522 Robert Head Raven 458 Brian Proehl Cloth of Gold 452 Mick Maxen Cloth of Gold 454 Nigel Pogson Raven FA 450 Barrie Cooper Independent 310 Tony Cox Independent 244 Gentlemen BarebowLadies BarebowJohn Barcroft 1066 Field Archers 774 Julia Paris South Wilts 620 York Gibson Thornbury 734 Ange Lindsay Thornbury 506 Garry Frisk Oakwood 684 Emma Ralph Raven 500 Martin Joy Aurora 662 Jane Rivers Magic Dragon 416 Glenn Bolton Bridgewood 630 John Barcroft 1066 Field Archers 774 Junior BarebowYork Gibson Thornbury 734 Dylan Parsons Senlac 510 Garry Frisk Oakwood 684 Martin Joy Aurora 662 Cub BarebowGlenn Bolton Bridgewood 630 Emily Anthony Thornbury 592 Lee Sutton Bridgewood 612 Liam Sutton Bridgewood 412 Adrian Mercer Magic Dragon 592 Brian Horne Magic Dragon 590 Gentlemen FreestyleKen Sparham Aurora 554 Terry Stevens Independent 782 Noel Mates South Wilts 534 Mike Youngman Rat Pack 618 Stephen Green Senlac 460 Steve Munnings Independent 592 Junior Freestyle Gentlemen Bowhunter Ashton Cox Independent 552 Mark Anthony Thornbury 766 Dave Andrews Cloth of Gold 742 Ladies Compound UnlimitedPhil Maher Independent 668 Slavica Vojinivuc COLA 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 BarebowAndrew Lehane Bridgewood 626 Paul Wilson 538 Tom Williams Bridgewood 618 Tim Godman 516 Gareth Pearson Noak Hill Archers 614 Peter Arterton Bridgewood 608 Cub BarebowKeith Nolan Souths Wilts 602 Megan Godman 292 Tylaar Haran Fleet Ibex 588 Mark Proctor Thornbury 528 Gentlemen Traditional Bow HunterRichard Huggett 1066 Field Archers 696 Paul Brewer 662 Peter Morgan Cloth of Gold 582 Ben Edwards Senlac 454 Gentlemen Hunting TackleIan 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 ;-) Hels36

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

38 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] 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!!



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44 “The Bowyer’s Diary” by Derek Hutchison, AKA ‘Del the Cat’! Planning ahead... Planning ahead... 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#)

way that what goes around, comes around. Only the other day I’d given 45 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 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).

46 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

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 is now on the tiller and 47 shot past the end of the belt. It’s already proved good investment for backed bows and laminates. The Ash backed Warbow 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).





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