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Target Archery a Brief Description |
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Archers on the Shooting Line |
| Target Archery
in the summer,
normally takes place on an open field with the targets
set out at fixed distances, according to the round being shot. The archers shoot from what we call the shooting line, this being a line marked out parallel to the row of targets. All archers shot from this line, controlled by the field captain. Three main types of bows are used, longbows, Olympic style, and compounds, although all the archers shoot together they do not compete directly against archers shooting different style bows, or archers of a different gender or age group. In competitions the winners of each group are awarded their own medals, trophies etc. In most rounds the ladies and juniors shoot at shorter distances than the gents. There are many different out door rounds that can be shot, thus giving the archer a variety of different distances and sizes of face to shoot at. Plus the challenge of holding the bow steady and allowing for drift on a windy day. |
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Archers ready to shoot on the waiting Line |
| In the winter most clubs have
indoor shooting facilities, these are normally in sports halls, school
sports halls
or similar locations. Rounds shot can be up to 30 metres, most rounds being
18 metres or 20 yds. Gents, ladies and juniors all shoot the same distances and again they only compete directly against others in their own group. i.e. gents Olympic style, gents compound, gents longbow, ladies Olympic style, ladies compound, ladies longbow, junior boys / girls and so on. There are a number of different indoor rounds that can be shot, thus giving the archer a variety of different face's and distances to shoot at. |
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Field Archery a Brief Description |
| Field Archery derives from the ancient pastime of
"roving". Groups of archers would meet on common land or woodlands, where one of them would pick a target, such as a clump of grass, or a tree-stump ect . This was called the "mark", the archers would then all shoot at the mark and the archer whose arrow came closest to the mark would choose the next target, and so on. Roving is still practiced today thanks to farmers and private land owners who are prepared to let archers use their fields and woodland. The modern sport of Field Archery takes place on "courses" or "ranges" which are laid out with 14 or 28 fixed targets or butts. These targets are set up at the ends of shooting lanes of various distances, the minimum being 20 feet to a maximum of 80 yds. The paper faces which are shot at are of different sizes the smallest being 20cm in diameter up to the largest field face of 65cm. in diameter. Being either the conventional concentric circles or a picture of a animal overprinted with kill or wound areas. Groups of archers would stand at a mark or peg and shoot a fixed number of arrows at the target. They then walk up to the target to score and collect their arrows before moving on to the next peg, this continues till all the targets have been shot at. |
| For more information please try the EFAA web site. www.fieldarcher.com For details of your nearest club E-mail efaa@fieldarcher.com |
