by Marc Bax | Jun 18, 2017 | News, Past event
St. Neots Bowmen offered visitors to the Village Fete in Offord Darcy on Saturday June 17th the opportunity to discover their inner Robin Hood. We held three short (30 minute) taster sessions, which were taken up by over 30 aspiring archers. Our normal Have-a-Go...
by Marc Bax | Jun 5, 2017 | News, Past event, Shoots
Yesterday club members Mary Louca, Sunil Kalra, and Nel and Marc Bax participated in the SCAS/BCAA clout archery championships. Though the range in Offord is too small to do any clout practice we did manage to produce two county champions: Mary Louca won the ladies...
by Marc Bax | Mar 11, 2017 | News, Shoots
On Sunday April 30th we will be shooting our first outdoor club tournament of 2017: a head-to-head shot over 50m, at a full-size 122cm target. Note you can participate shooting recurve, barebow or longbow (but not compound): all bow styles will compete in a single...
by Marc Bax | Mar 6, 2017 | News
Last Sunday (March 5th) Nel and I (team “Double Dutch” for the occasion) participated in the Beiter Hit-or-Miss express tournament organised by Hingham Bowmen (Hingham lies about 15 miles west of Norwich). As a warm-up we first both shot a Worcester round...
by Marc Bax | Feb 26, 2017 | News
For the 2017 outdoor season we are introducing the “252” scheme which has been adopted by many other clubs. Some clubs use the 252 scheme to keep archers from shooting long distances until they’ve reached a good score on the shorter distances. We...
