CHANTRY BOWMEN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008

The club championships were held on the 27th July.

It was a beautiful hot sunny day, members arrived early to set up the field and we were ready to start by about 10-30.

Our Lady Paramount was Carol Leigh a new lady member and the field captain was Barry Armitage, it was nice to see a lot of new members taking part and also an older one John Houghton who has not shot out doors for a while.

The first distance got of to a good start with a few spot prizes added at the judge’s discretion the first one was shared by three people on three different targets who all split the line by half an arrow.

The air was full of friendly conversation and light-hearted banter even our field captain was seen taking a dance lesson from our Lady P.

For a full list of results you can go to our tournaments page or there will be one posted in the cabin.

I would like to add a final thank you to all those who helped and took part.

Yours

John Ferrier

Tournament Organiser.

Longbow Team Goes From Strength to Strength

The Chantry Bowmen Longbow Team has continued with its very favourable run of form by winning the Club's own 1st Sword Shoot. The impressive team, consisting of Martin Jordan, Mike Murphy and Colin Hope scored a superb 1023 between them. The team has had numerous successes over the course of the season and also has good depth to the squad. Well done fellars and keep up the good work. The winning team is pictured below. More photos may be seen in the gallery and the results sheet may also be downloaded from the tournaments page.

Chantry Bowmen Help Local Charity

Chantry Bowmen was recently asked to help out at Lord Scarborough's Sandbeck estate in aid of local charity Safe@Last. Patron of the charity, Lord Scarborough, thought that archery might add 'an extra dimension' to his Clay Shoot day. The weather was atrocious, but everybody that had a go at the archey did so with good humour as well as a dogged determination. The day was very successful, raising £11,215, and the club has stated that it will be only too happy to help such a worthwhile cause if requested next year. Pictured below is the range set up in front of the beautiful C17 house. More photographs are in the gallery.

SCORTON ARROW

Colin looking fine in all his regalia at the recent Scorton Arrow Tournament. This tournament is the oldest recorded sporting event in the world and dates back to 1673. Chantry's own Martin Jordan was lieutenant of the arrow for 2007. Read more about the event and see this years results by clicking here for the tournaments website.

D&DAA WESTERN AT DANUM ARCHERS

A great turn out to a fantastic day, 9 members of chantry took part in the D&DAA western round at Danum. The weather was exceptionally hot, (not what we are used to).
Well done to everybody who took part, there were some very impressive scores.
Pete Titterton took 3rd Gent longbow.
Dan Pearson took junior longbow, shooting an adult round scoring 259.
Well done to our novices, (archers who shoot in competitions in their first year), Keith and Gordan, keep them scores rolling in. I put a PB in of 633 (91 points on my last PB) and got my first 6 gold end at 50 yrds.
Also at the AGM of the Doncaster and District Archery Association Dan Pearson was awarded " Junior Longbow of the Year, 2008.Well Done Dan.
The D&DAA shoots are open to everybody in the Doncaster area, they are good shoots for first time archers and experienced archers alike, they are friendly shoots and people are always willing to help you out.
Tha D&DAA have Four shoots a year, An outdoor western (usually in May), An Indoor Portsmouth (usually in November) and an Outdoor Field Shoot(usually in November,)and an Open Longbow( usually in October) entry forms can be found on on the tournaments page, the D&DAA website or on the YAA site.

by Vicky Pearson.

ST GEORGE'S DELIGHT

The Club’s Longbow archers almost swept the field recently at this year’s St George Longbow Tournament in Morley. Colin Hope very nearly won the prestigious Royal Armouries Golden Arrow but had to settle for Gents Highest Score, losing out by only a single point. Martin Jordan
claimed Most Golds in the Gents competition whilst Daniel Pearson won Most Hits and Jason Davis won Highest Score in the Juniors competition. Mike Murphy won the prize for ‘Worst White’ and the fantastic Salmesbury Horn was won by the team consisting of Colin Hope, Martin
Jordan, John Ferrier and Daniel Pearson. Well done to everybody, on what was an awful day weather wise, for battling on and doing so well.

CHANTRY GOES INTERNATIONAL

Peter and Tony, who both recently took their bows on a family holiday to France,  pictured with some French archers from the town of Fougere.

Read the complete article by clicking here.

Also, why not visit the French Club's website by clicking here.