Justin is pretty modest about his achievements but this is one he should be shouting about. He has just finished third at the National Tour event in Evesham!
The weather was rather blowy so he’s not pleased with his score but this is a rare photo of him almost smiling.
Other people who were on the podium over the weekend included Bryony Pitman, Penny Healey, and Ella Gibson – all ranked in the world top 3 for their bowtype.
Brilliant job, Justin!
80 yards this time…
Putting Pat in a crisis as she’s running out of gongs to award him.
Well done, Joe.
Sunday 21st saw a small team of Ledbury Archers attend Bromyard’s WA900 Open event. As usual there were archers from across the West Midlands and the competition was expected to stretch our skills.
Individual results were great: winners trophies and gold medals for Steph and Dan C in ladies and gents barebow and also for Rachel in ladies longbow.
Joe received the medal for U21 winner in the gents recurve whilst Hannah got the gold for Junior ladies barebow.
Scores for the plate for handicap adjusted score were calculated (and triple checked) and this was awarded to Dan V with Dan C picking up a bronze medal.
The absolute best result was that Ledbury won the team trophy for the first time in our history. Gold medals to the four archers whose scores made up the result: Steph, Joe, Dan C and Dan V.
The trophy will be out for admiration at coffee times.
Well done all.
(The picture also shows how smart the new club shirts look 
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The HAA American / St Nicholas was held on 6th May 2023 at Putley.
Andy T was shooting his first competitive round and has a gold medal from the St Nicholas.
In the “American” Steph and Dan took golds in ladies and gents barebow.
Justin dropped a whole 2 points in his gold medal on compound!
Joe took bronze in a very tight gents recurve.
Pat got silver and Rachel gold in the ladies longbow.
Bromyard won the ladies compound, HCoB took mens longbow and the recurve golds.
Once again a great outcome for the club!
28th April saw our first Annual Dinner since lockdown.
A great meal was had at The Royal Oak, Much Marcle.
After dinner, various bling was distributed for extreme cleverness with bow and arrows.
…The Hills are alive with the sound of twang-thudding…
New Year’s Day saw Ledbury play host to the Annual County Winter Clout.
A good turnout on a fine morning gave us an enjoyable start to the year and we had a barbie in the barn afterwards too.
December 17th saw our annual Yuletide fun shoot and barbie.
Gordon came up trumps again with his creation of Santa’s grotto, where some evil elves were trying to steal the presents and it was up to us to clout the elves without hitting Santa in the centre. With 5 points for an elf and -10 for Santa, some people did manage a positive score.
Then we did festive targets where once again, every target had some negative score points to be missed.
With conditions very crisp underfoot, we managed to avoid frostbite then we retired to the barn for a welcome barbie over the open brazier. Rachel’s hot punch was a welcome taste too.
Last Thursday, Steph got a gold!
Big deal, you say…
But she got the centre X
Still not impressed?
This was at 100 yds.
Awesome!
…shame about the other 5 arrows 🙂
This week we had our 2nd annual shoot to remember the tragic passing last year of keen clouter, Geoff.
Two way clout at 125m, categories split into wooden arrow shooters and synthetics.
Ultimate winner was Mark on barebow, Chard got the longbow.
Francis, Dan, George and Martin got the other podium bragging rights.
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