bowshootinmomma - 29/5/2005 3:42 AM
Hi...just wondering what the 3D shoots are like in England. Do you have a wooded course where you have targets set up? We shoot 24 or 25 targets twice along the trails and in the IRON MAN that we just went to we shot 20 targets 3 times around the course...each time from a stake set at a different distance. Different classes shoot from different stakes. It's a long day but it's a lot of fun.
There are lots of different courses. Mostly in woodland, but others mixed with the fields and open spaces around them. Most competitions are run around 36 3d targets, the club I shoot for usually have 40 targets out over a woodland course. I have shot at clubs where the targets were laid in various places about a trout farm and another round a show jumping arena.
There are different scoring systems too. The most popular being Big Game with a high score of 20 per target (depending on which arrow and where you hit the target).
4 pegs to shoot from, red, white, blue and yellow. Adults shoot from the red peg, if you miss you walk forward to the white and shoot one more. If you miss again, you walk forward to blue and shoot your third and final arrow. Scoring as follows:
1st arrow = 20 Kill / 16 Wound
2nd arrow = 14 Kill / 10 Wound
3rd arrow = 8 Kill / 4 Wound
Juniors and cubs, depending on age, shoot from the closer pegs with cubs shooting all 3 from the yellow peg. Lots of different styles at the shoots, but you only compete against people in the same class.