philhoney
New member
Hi,
We turned up to shoot today and discovered that we were out of score sheets so tried something different.
Taking our cue from the Olympics we shot sets but with a difference. The only arrows that counted were those in the gold and red, 2 for a gold and 1 for a red. Six arrows each with the highest score awarded a 3, second 2 and third 1. If any two scored the same they both got the points. No set number of arrows, no time limit. When we all decided it was time to go home the highest score won.
All ages, sexes and bow styles joined in and the result was surprisingly close. The top scores were 17, 16 and 15 with compound taking first and third with recurve in second place.
We will be going indoors on the 17th and we will experiment with this again but from todays try it seems as if there are more than 6 or 7 shooting it would get too complicated and we would be better off shooting a proper round.
It really makes you concentrate when only the two inner colours count with anything blue or worse counted as a miss.
It made a nice change and as long as we got the distances right for the different classes everyone had a chance of getting the highest score.
Phil
We turned up to shoot today and discovered that we were out of score sheets so tried something different.
Taking our cue from the Olympics we shot sets but with a difference. The only arrows that counted were those in the gold and red, 2 for a gold and 1 for a red. Six arrows each with the highest score awarded a 3, second 2 and third 1. If any two scored the same they both got the points. No set number of arrows, no time limit. When we all decided it was time to go home the highest score won.
All ages, sexes and bow styles joined in and the result was surprisingly close. The top scores were 17, 16 and 15 with compound taking first and third with recurve in second place.
We will be going indoors on the 17th and we will experiment with this again but from todays try it seems as if there are more than 6 or 7 shooting it would get too complicated and we would be better off shooting a proper round.
It really makes you concentrate when only the two inner colours count with anything blue or worse counted as a miss.
It made a nice change and as long as we got the distances right for the different classes everyone had a chance of getting the highest score.
Phil