July Shoot

G'day

Thanks to those who attended on Sunday, hope you all had a good day.

Thanks also to:-

• Clinton, for fixing up 10 of our targets. Great job - they look terrific!
• Gaz & Adam (and Sam, I think?) for creating a killer new course. Was testing in more ways than one! I don't know about everyone else (except Gaz) but I was absolutely knackered that night.  
• Adam, for putting his hand up for the treasurer's job.
• Garry (aka Tong Master) for once again manning the bbq.

We had a reasonable turnout and went out in two groups, with Adam and Gaz our group leaders. We were lucky to have a beautiful day for it. 

The new course had some really hard shots, with some tricky distances and height variations throwing more than a few of us I think. There's still a bit of work to be done, with hopefully some steps being cut in to make it easier to get around.

Next month we should be organised for the AGM so I hope that we have a good attendance for that. Its a good opportunity to bring anything up that you would like discussed or put forward suggestions.

Some sad news for our member and friend Pete Lucas, whose Dad passed away last weekend. I'm sending a card out on behalf of all of us at the club expressing our sympathies - its a hard thing to lose someone, especially a family member.

Check out the photos, thanks Gaz for being our photographer.

Take care all & feel free to comment. (I have no idea how to format the photos on this, can anyone help lol?)

Kate

Andrew

Taylor

Tony J & Jake

D'oh! a deer, with El Prez, Adam

Evan

Tony H & Dean

Tong Master Garry

The sly fox - bloody hard shot!

Jake

Rob

Me

Tony H

Lilly (had a great shoot!)

My helper for the scores, Nate

Hi there to whoever reads this!

Well last weekend's shoot was a good day, not too big a crowd so we had 3 reasonable size groups. Fortunately the weather held up.

I'd like to thank Rob, Peter & Tess, Dean & Lilly and Andrew for coming along. Hope you enjoyed your first shoot. Actually, I know Andrew did because he sent me a lovely email which I'll share here.

Score-wise, Clinton was our shooter of the day with 143 - well done Clinton (and thanks for your help with our new shooters). Gaz & Evan came equal second with 123 and Sam in 3rd place with 116.

Poor Adam blew up a couple of his arrows, but redeemed himself by being an excellent tong-master in Gary's absence. As for myself, I was extremely happy with 71 (I know its low but its probably one of my highest!). I was pleasantly surprised to hit the target more often than not, considering I hadn't shot for some months.

For anyone interested, I spoke to Phil from Leeville recently (he was supposed to be coming last Sunday). He's the one who keeps me updated about their shoot weekends. I'm not sure if anyone went out to the State of Origin at Casino on the long weekend but apparently they had 198 shooters!

I came home with a couple of visitors, whose presence I wasn't aware of until the next night - bloody ticks! How on earth they made their way through the layers of clothes onto my back I don't know!

Anyway, that's it for now, looking forward to next shoot as always!

Cheers
Kate

Gaz & the mighty BSA

There's a tree in the way

El Prez & son Jake, shooting at the mountain lion

Interesting how many different angles of shots

Rob, Gaz & Sam

April Shoot

After some discussion, it has been decided that our shoot on 27th will not proceed due to the fact that it is a long weekend and therefore many people are likely to have other plans. This is another reason why we will have two shoots next month. Apologies to all.

Happy Easter!

March shoot

Hi again

Well yesterday was another good turnout, with 24 shooters.

After some initial confusion over who were going to be our leaders (due to the conspicuous absence of some members), Adam took the first group out, the 2nd group kind of took themselves and Michelle and I took the stragglers! (Fortunately there were plenty of experienced and responsible shooters in the 2nd group so that was not a problem).

From my perspective, being with the last group was pretty cruisy. There were only 6 of us and we decided (at Michelle's brilliant suggestion) to shoot each target twice. Saved our legs and walking around in the heat too long!

Although only a small group, we had plenty of fun and some pretty good shots were had. Brad got a beauty on one of the deer, which I won't elaborate on for fear of incriminating him (;) and Maddie did a terrific shot in the gulley where her arrow bounced off something & went vertical! I also got one of my trick shots in where it bounced off the ground into the target - lucky me!

Somehow we all finished a lot earlier than usual, which was kind of nice to be able to come back and have a leisurely BBQ and not have everyone hurrying off. Its an enjoyable part of the day to come back and have a sit down and a good catch up.

Counting up the scores it turned out that Llyle had the top points for the day on 150, with Clinton not far behind on 140. As you will see from the photo, I've written up this week's scores next to last shoots for comparison.

I've also put a few more photos up but these were only taken on my phone so please excuse the quality. (ohhhh.....mmmmyyyy......Gooooddddd.......adsl1.....i....s......S..0...0...0...S...L...O...W....). BTW, did anyone spot the celebrity??

Regarding our next shoot, it has been decided that it will be held the Sunday after Easter, which will make it the 27th April.

On another subject, there will be a weekend shoot out at Casino over the June long weekend which they call the "State of Origin". Its at the same place as the shoot that was on last weekend that I told you about. (Sorry about the late notice for that but I only found out on Sunday night). Have a think about it but I thought it might be good for a bunch of us to head out for the weekend. Free camping, hot showers and loos and over a hundred other shooters!

Anyway, I'm off to take the dog for a walk before it rains. (Speaking of dogs, how cute is Adam's new big-footed puppy Doug??!)

Seeya

Kate

Hello!

This is going to be a bit of a trial and error thing as I haven't posted anything on the blogspot before.

Well, Sunday week ago saw Tweed Valley Field Archer's first shoot for the year & pleased to say we had a really good show!

It was the most shooters we've had in a day (29) and although a little organising (& slight panicking on my behalf) was required, the day ended up well.

We broke up into 3 groups, with Adam, Pete and Gaz (with Greg) being the group "captains". As I was in Adam's group I can't speak for the others but we had fun in our group at least! I was really pleased to actually hit the target more often than not, even getting a 10! (I'll have to take a photo next time as someone didn't believe me - probably more than one someone actually!).

I'm not sure what Gaz and Greg got up to but if it was anything as usual, it would have been lots of mischief!

We had a number of  "newbies" along too - Jed was in our group and seemed to enjoy himself and the others (including Tony) that I spoke to sounded like they had a good time too.

We have decided to keep a record of scores along the way this year, out of interest. Have a look at the photo I'm attaching (hope it works) to see what the scores were.

Evan, who was in Pete's group, was the shooter of the day with a phenomenal 161!! Clinton came second with 141.

Young Maddie Hill did great with 103, followed closely by El Presidente Adam with 102.

As for the scores from Gary's group, I'm not sure about the accuracy of the recorded scores but (apparently) Gaz got 149, which would be pretty awesome and if I can read the writing correctly it looks like newcomer Ken got a decent 93.

Anyway, I could go on for days but better not. Hope you all enjoyed the day and look forward as always to next shoot, 16th March.

Cheers
Kate

Last weekend the trek to beautiful Bondonga Station was made by some of our club members and a very enjoyable weekend it was.

Although the river was a bit low, there was still enough water to get wet and cool off in and the lovely (& very cheeky) Steve, our host allowed us to have a fire each night. Jake was elected fire-keeper and did an admirable job!

Most of us (ie Chisholms, Hills, Davis's, Warrens and Ado) made it out by dark Friday, although Gaz got up disgustingly early and was out to join us by 9am Saturday.

We got a reasonable amount of rain on Friday night, much to Margaret's despair as she and her kids were roughing it under a gazebo - which leaked! Much to the disgust of Charlie & Kate, Marg decided she didn't want to risk another night like that and broke camp and headed home. Sadly, my weather prediction of more rain was way off the mark, (I was wrong, ok? - sorry Marg). Gaz was right (that hurts to admit!).

Actually, I felt a bit posh...Taylor and I were the only ones with tents! Oh well, I was very comfortable in my tent with my queen size airbed. Everyone else had swags of some description (think I'd get claustrophobic). Adam had the Taj Mahal of camps, with a huge tarp which doubled as sleeping area at night and community shade during the day and an adjoining gazebo which was his kitchen area. The Hills had a pretty good set up too and Gaz's camp was, um, I guess just how he liked it! Hats off to Adrian for ingenuity though, with his ancient canvas tarp rigged up with a stick to hold it up off his swag on the back of his ute! Thank god he bought heaps of salt too, which saved a few of us with our melting ice (a new trick I'm happy to have learned).

First hunt was on Saturday, with most taking part (not me!). This was Taylor's first hunt and although I have to admit to hoping he wasn't going to like it, he enjoyed himself and even managed to get himself a young goat! Greg also scored one and the amazing Michelle did the dirty work of cleaning and skinning, then cooked some over the fire on Saturday night. Having never eaten goat before, I was pleasantly surprised! Mind you, I think Michelle's cooking also should be credited .

Sunday saw another hunt, with Ado going off by himself and coming back with a goat and Greg scoring another one too. Greg's goat had a beautiful coat, which Michelle very skillfully removed. I understand it will end up as a mat on Maddie's bedroom floor. 

Lots of time was spent lounging around in the shade, as it did get rather hot. I personally spent a fair bit of time in the river, which was lovely and cool (although a bit icky, especially with the exfoliating prawns).

Night time was spent hanging around the fire, with a few drinks and good company (and chocolate).

The Hills sadly had to leave Sunday so it was just a small group left. I'm pretty sure that they thoroughly enjoyed themselves (including Pixie the dog, or Pigsy as Ado called her) and Maddi & Sarah are going to grow up to be awesome like their mum!

Monday was very unhappily pack up day. Taylor & I had to leave earlier in the day for him to work that afternoon, so Gaz, Adam, Jake & Ado took off for one last hunt, which was unfortunately unsuccessful. Bad luck boys.

My second trip out to Bondonga has just confirmed for me that its a pretty special place and I'm very much looking forward to our next trip!

Hope you like the photos!

Cheers,

Kate