Cuban Chase Competition Saturday 19th May 2012 Sighters 12.30.
All club members are invited to take part in this Fun Western Round shooting Barebow with 6 arrow ends.
The 1st prize is a bottle of Cuban rum hence the title the Cuban chase. To give everyone a fair chance Alan & Mandy will not be competing. To win the rum you need to come within 100 points of Alan & Mandy's combined mean score ie. if Alan scores 400 and Mandy scores 300 combined score 700, mean score 350. So a score of 250+ has a winning chance.
Longbow
Outside Portsmouth Postal League
Every winter the BLBS puts on an outside Portsmouth postal league. The competition is open to teams of 4 longbow archers and operates over the months November-February. Like an indoor Portsmouth’ a round is 5 dozen arrows shot in ends of 3 at a distance of 20 yards on a 60cm target face. Unlike an indoor Portsmouth however scoring is imperial (9,7,5 ...) and not metric. Results are classified by hits, score and golds in that order. Inner golds are also scored as tiebreakers. Each team has to submit the results of 2 rounds shot per month for each member and and the winning team is the one with the greatest aggregate number of hits, or, in the usual situation that each team has scored the maximum hits, the highest aggregate score. Members of the winning team receive a medal. Individual rankings are also recorded and published. Archers who are not members of a team may submit scores for the individual rankings.
A team from Panda comprising Ken England (captain), John Bowers and Keith Harrison together with Les Court of Bronte Archers is competing under the name Crecy Archers. This team won the competition last year and hopes to repeat its success. The team will be shooting 2 Portsmouth rounds every Saturday afternoon throughout the winter