As another year draws to a close we had beautiful weather on Monday for our Christmas Clout, the sky was cloudless and the temperature warm in the December sun, so it was such a pity that we were shooting on the day before – Sunday, when the first job of the day was for our host, Graham to light his mobile log burner to thaw out the participants prior to shooting. Only one hardy soul shot only in his T shirt (possibly because his wife, Karen, had sequestered all his other warm clothes). Hereford Company of Bowmen make them tough! Mind you Dave Michael had by far the highest score of the competition so perhaps we should all take a leaf out of his book for next year!

Most of the shoot was under an overcast, grey, leaden sky but that did make it a bit easier to see the arrows flying off into the distance. Towards the end of the competition we also had some breaks in the cloud cover and saw some blue sky peeking through.

All agreed that it was a fantastic antidote to a few days of lethargy and over indulgence and we managed to keep dry, so that was a bonus. There were some impressive scores from our club archers and congratulations go to all our medallists. Results for this competition (and for all previous competitions) can be found on the HAA web page here.

We look forward to welcoming more of our members at county shoots in 2020.