AGM - Will be Sunday 18th March 2012 at the woods. 3Ds to follow and refreshments
Membership Renewals now due for 2012/13. Download form here...
Winter 2011 Newsletter now on the website here
Marshal's Pack (for prospective volunteers) and Etiquette Guide (for those new to Open Shoots) are now posted here
Lyme Disease Warning here..
The NFAS exists to foster and promote Field Archery as a sport. All courses are over unmarked (ie unknown ) distances, usually situated in woodland, and targets are predominately 3D or paper animal faces.
You can read more about the definitions of each NFAS shooting style and see the curent NFAS shooting rules on the NFAS site here. What follows is a summary:
There are nine NFAS shooting styles within the society which are shot at our club (we don't shoot Crossbow):
Each style is split into the following classes: Gents, Ladies, Junior Boys U16, Junior Girls U16, Cub Boys over 9 and Cub Girls over 9, and Cub Boys Under 9 and Cub Girls Under 9.
On a standard round, known as a Big Game round, an archer will shoot until he/she scores, up to a maximum of three arrows. Arrows are shot from the following pegs:
Company of Sixty applies the NFAS shooting rules (here) at its Open and Friendly shoots. It has a few particular rules of its own too: Read more.
You'll need Acrobat Reader to open some of these documents. You can download a free copy here.