A contingent of SAA members took part in the Herts Team Championships on Sunday, consisting of 3 Recurve and 4 Longbow. Richard, Vernon and Barry all setting new pbs for the FITA 25. Barry, shooting in his first competition, found things a bit nerve racking, but still shot well. The Longbows all shot together apart from Gordon who opted for the morning session and shot the best score for the team, with Karen and Steve backing him up to take second place in the event.
A big well done to all who took part. Pictures here.

SAA celebrated Halloween on the 27th of Oct with ghosts, spiders, skeletons and witches suffering the arrows of misfortune, as archers took turns to shoot the witch and her cat as she flew across the back of the gym, trying to cast spells on them all. The witch's familiar, Felix the cat^* seemed to get an unfair share of punishment as he was pinned to the boss with arrows until decapitated, as for the witch she lost her head and flew away hoping to return next year.
The archers jubilant at their success drank bats blood with bone shards to celebrate the victory. Pictures here.

Richard, Karen, and Paul ventured out to the Kestrels Archery Clubs Portsmouth round on Sunday 10th Oct.
It was an early start on the first session so all a bit subdued, but Richard shot his first round with his recurve bow and scored a respectful 526. Karen and Paul shot Longbows, at the end of the round Karen and Paul were in 1st place and Richard was in 6th so the long wait began as we waited for the next 2 sessions to be shot. Just before the start of the 3rd session we were given the opportunity to shoot as one three spot target had become available, so Richard decided to have a go and shot in amongst the compounds and scored a fantastic 531. Well done Richard.
At the end of the day Paul had taken the gold in the gents, Karen took the gold in the ladies and the combined score gave us the team longbow gold as well. Richard came a very respectable 8th in the double. Pictures here.

Richard Hutchins took part in the Woking Archery Club 27th Open Tournment and won the Best Gold for Longbow.

Karen and Paul went to Grays Archers in Essex on Sunday to have a go at a western. Paul shot the New Western and Karen the Long western and despite very strong winds both came away with gold and new PBs. Pictures here.

YORK/HEREFORD RECORD STATUS WITH ROSE AWARD
Karen and Paul ventured off to Croydon for the day, with Karen shooting the Hereford and Paul the York. It was a bright sunny day and after a swarm of flying ants and then wasps, both shot well, with Karen taking gold, shooting a PB and a new club record, and claiming her Black rose to boot. Paul was only eight points short of a medal and won worst white. Pictures here.

UK RECORD STATUS & ROSE AWARD TOURNAMENT
Gordon and Paul took part in the York, Karen and Richard in the Hereford. It was an overcast and breezy day but the rain held of and became a bit brighter in the afternoon all shot well with Gordon and Paul taking gold and silver in the visitors York, and Karen took gold in the visitors Hereford. Richard also shot well but no medals were awarded for gents in the Hereford round, Karen and Paul’s combined score gave them the gold for married couple, and Paul also claimed his Black Rose. Pictures here.

Richard Hutchins took part in the Berkshire County Championships - he won 2nd place for the visitor's Longbow on the York round, and Best Gold for the Longbow.

Gordon Hurn took part in the UK Masters at Lilleshall where he won the Longbow competition.

took place on 14 March.  11 of us turned up and we shot a total of 42.4 miles - nearly two marathons - well done chaps.  Get the money in now!

were held at the K2 in Crawley on Sunday 7 March.  We won the longbow team championships thanks to Paul and Gordon.  Karen picked up gold for lady longbow and Gordon got the bronze for Gents Longbow.  We also had a fun time in the afternoon entering the Sussex team championships and shooting our recurve bows.  24 out of 33 isn’t bad!!!   Pictures here.

took place on snowy day at Lilleshall.  A longbow contingent went up to compete.  Karen shot a blinding round and came away with a silver medal, she was also pipped into second place in the head to head by just one point. Pictures here.

were held in St Albans and Silver Arrow had a good turn out from club members - including Lance and Toby who turned up to support us - thanks chaps!!

We now have two county champions in our club - thanks to great shooting by Karen - lady longbow champion, and Harry - junior barebow champion.