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County Squad Selection 2020
This year I would like to enter teams for the National County Team Championships, held at Lilleshall on 27th/28th June. The county has agreed to fund half of each team entry fee, the rest would be paid by the archers selected.
I have attached last years prospectus so you can see the format - it is a WA 720 qualification round Saturday morning followed by team head to heads in the afternoon. Then a WA 1440 on Sunday.
Teams are made of three archers and if there are not enough qualifying archers, no team will be entered for that category.
The cost was £145 per team last year, so based on that figure, the county will pay £73 per team and each archer will need to pay £24.
How do I qualify I hear you ask? Simple, shoot either Blow away the cobwebs at Long Mynd on the 12th April or the Bowbrook WA 720 on April 18th, submit scores to myself and the highest scoring archers will make the teams.
To qualify for the senior squad at the Intercounty shoot in September, the county has let me set a minimum requirement of Bowman classification. I have chosen this as it is a measurable and achievable standard across all disciplines.
Tim Swain (the county coaching officer) is looking to hold a meeting of the previous team members and interested county archers that would like to shoot for Shropshire as to how we help people attain this standard and more. He would like to know what the archers want from the county coaches and together, come up with a plan as to how we make this happen.
Any questions, my email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. please feel free to ask away.
Kind regards
Simon
PS. As always, if junior archers can upstage and outshoot the seniors, they will be selected to shoot for the senior team so everyone shoot your best and good luck to all!
Clout
The 2019 Shropshire County and open Clout competition was held at Longford Hall (near Newport, Shropshire) on Sunday 27th October. Despite the rain of the previous 48 hours the field had drained well, the sun was out, the wind was light and in general, everything was near perfect for clout shooting. 43 archers took part, about 50% of them being Shropshire archers and of those only 14 were adults, which is disappointing from a county with over 700 archers. Clout shooting (at distances up to 180 yards) is a simulation of the medieval longbow battles where you lob arrows over your own army and try to decimate the opposition. Needless to say, these days the opposing army has been replaced by a small flag! Because of the distances involved, most archery clubs do not have the facility to practice this form of our sport. However, clout archery is very popular in the UK and there are many competitive clout shoots, involving all bow types, around the country – most listed at the back of Archery UK. Most archers never try clout archery, possibly because, like the old Guinness advert, “I don’t like it because I’ve never tried it”.
There is in Shropshire, approximately once each month, an open Clout practice session at Bowbrook Archers’ range between Shrewsbury and Wellington (SY4 4PS). Most of the sessions are held on Saturday mornings, starting at 10 or 11am. These sessions are open to all ArcheryGB affiliated archers. Each session is led by an experienced clout archer who can offer clout specific coaching. Because of the size of the field we regret that compound bows cannot be used for clout shooting on this range. Below is a list of dates when Clout practices are to be held over the next 12 months. All are welcome. These sessions are all listed on the “diary of events” on www.bowbrook-archers.co.uk. Non-Bowbrook archers are requested to pay a small visitors fee.
All sessions are Saturdays unless otherwise indicated. The start time is shown for each date – each session lasts up to 2 hours. 16th November(11am), 4 January(11am), 1 February 2020 10am), 29 February (10am), 28 March (10am), 25th April (10am), Weds 20 May (6pm), 20th June (11am), Weds 15 July (6pm), 15th August (10am), 5 September (10am). PLEASE CHECK ON BOWBROOK’S DIARY BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR PLANS, JUST IN CASE THE BOOKING HAS BEEN CHANGED, ALTHOUGH THIS IS UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN.
Let’s hope that the Shropshire 2020 Clout competition will see lots more of our county archers taking part. ACCURATE CLOUT SHOOTING IS HARD – BUT IT IS ALSO A LOT OF FUN!!
- Jonathon Walton
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