Our next round of Beginner’s Courses are now available to book via Eventbrite;
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/beginners-courses-at-durham-…
Places are limited so book up soon to avoid disappointment.
Any queries please email enquiries@durhamcityarchers.org.
Any DCA member who wishes to participate in the club handicap scheme ’17 should submit their 3 best scores from recognised outdoor rounds (as detailed in Archery GB’s ‘Rules of Shooting’) and/or 252 attempts to cathlowden@hotmail.com between now and July 2nd. Each score will be converted to a handicap between 0 and 100 and the three averaged to provide each archer’s handicap. More than three scores may be submitted and the handicap will be taken from the best three.
The handicap is then converted to an allowance for a recognised round, which is added to the score achieved. If an archer shoots exactly to their handicap, they will total 1440 for any given round.
The club end of season shoot will take place in September and will be run as a handicap shoot. This means that a novice, junior, longbow archer has just as much chance of winning as the most experienced senior compound.
The handicap scheme is a great leveller and allows everyone to compete together, regardless of bowtype, age, gender, ability or experience – it’s all about improvement!
For those of you that have never shot outside before (or if you want a refresher) we will be holding a session covering shooting outdoors on Saturday 25th March at 1pm all members welcome.
Here are our January challenge Results, well done to everyone who took part.
| Forename | Surname | Age | Sex | Bow type | Class | Score | Hits | Golds | Position / Out of |
| Alistair | McGranaghan | Male | Recurve | #1 | 536 | 60 | 19 | 11 / 248 | |
| Martin | Schreiber | Male | Recurve | #1 | 438 | 60 | 3 | 130 / 248 | |
| Keith | Roberson | Male | Recurve | #2 | 585 | 60 | 45 | 10 / 684 | |
| Andy | Thompson | Male | Recurve | #2 | 567 | 60 | 32 | 62 / 684 | |
| Michael | Ede | Male | Recurve | #2 | 566 | 60 | 31 | 70 / 684 | |
| Steve | Twycross | Male | Recurve | #2 | 566 | 60 | 28 | 73 / 684 | |
| Paul | Graham | Male | Recurve | #2 | 565 | 60 | 29 | 79 / 684 | |
| Chris | Lee | Male | Recurve | #2 | 538 | 60 | 23 | 244 / 684 | |
| Shane | Ward | Male | Recurve | #2 | 496 | 60 | 9 | 464 / 684 | |
| John | Burke | Male | Recurve | #2 | 461 | 60 | 11 | 563 / 684 | |
| Catherine | Lowden-Brown | Female | Recurve | #5 | 547 | 60 | 23 | 50 / 304 | |
| Alex | Craig | 17 | Female | Recurve | #5 | 533 | 60 | 17 | 73 / 304 |
| David | Hann | Male | Longbow | #8 | 442 | 59 | 8 | 31 / 139 | |
| Kenny | Milburn | Male | Longbow | #8 | 424 | 60 | 6 | 47 / 139 | |
| Alan | Turner | Male | Longbow | #8 | 395 | 60 | 2 | 68 / 139 | |
| Bill | Walton | Male | Longbow | #8 | 393 | 59 | 4 | 71 / 139 | |
| Darren | Goat | Male | Longbow | #8 | 292 | 56 | 0 | 122 / 139 | |
| John | Nightingale | Male | Compound | #13 | 537 | 59 | 15 | 16 / 028 | |
| Matthew | Hann | 17 | Male | Compound | #14 | 574 | 60 | 34 | 45 / 181 |
| Chris | McLean | Male | Compound | #14 | 569 | 60 | 29 | 56 / 181 | |
| Darren | Goat | Male | Barebow | #20 | 336 | 59 | 0 | 116 / 145 | |
| Jenna | Goat | Female | Barebow | #23 | 502 | 60 | 12 | 11 / 083 |
Here are the results to download for the DCA Post-Xmas Worcester, well done to all those who took part.
The AGM will take place on Saturday 14th January at 12 noon, in the classroom next to the sports hall.
At the AGM we will be introducing member fees for juniors – at the rate of 25% of the senior fee – so £30 for the year, or £2.50 per month if you pay by Bank standing order.
The new fees will commence on the 1st February 2017
This still represents excellent value.
It’s coming up to that time of year already, we will move indoors on Tuesday 13th September, back to Framwellgate School.
So out last and final club session at Houghall will be Saturday 10th September, all shooting after that will be at Framwellgate School.
We have the use of the field for the Bank Holiday – 29th August – shooting times same as a Saturday.
DNAA are have arranged a number of coaching days open to all archers, details below: