Congratulations to the DCA team today, cracking results:
Lloyd Pattison – 2nd Gents Compound
Mike Mcgowan – 3rd Gents Compound
Julie Ryan – 3rd Ladies Compound (first comp entry with a compound bow)
Catherine Lowden – 3rd Ladies Recurve
Congratulations also to Andrew Frankish and Anne Todd who managed to make new county records and take first place in Gents Compound and Ladies Longbow respectively.
I am steadily adding to our flickr group, but it would be great if more members could join up and get uploading. Come on folks, lets see what you have tucked away on an old memory card, or hidden at the back of your hard disk.
Heres something I took tonight, to get you all thinking….
The Scores on the Doors?
Aggregated over 2 games:
1st: Derek 288
2nd: Mike 273
3rd: John 239
The rest, in no particular order:
Davy 225
Adam 178
Julie 205
Dennis 176
Jude 165
Lloyd 190
Alison 172
Mr Alison 225
Dee 198
Peter 204
Catherine 216
Denise 173
Jane 222
Clearly the recurvists were cheating in some way, and the compounders suffered some crippling equipment failures, you know how it is …. That said, seems like everyone had a pretty good time all in all, and we eagerly look forward to our next social gathering. See you there 
From our Secretary:
Important Dates to Make Note Of:-
On Saturday March 21st the club will be holding the final postal league shoot for the indoor season of 2009. All members are welcome to come along and take part, as in past months when we held previous shoots.
I would also like to take this opportunity to let everyone know that we will going outside in the middle of April , beginning outdoors on Tuesday14th April, starting at 6pm and continuing to shoot until 9pm or until it gets dark whichever happens first. Can I please remind all archers that outdoors, six arrows are to be shot at any one time instead of the three that are shot indoors at the moment. All cars can be parked on the field behind the sports hall during the archery sessions on Tuesday and Friday evenings from 6pm till 9pm and Saturday from 11am till 3pm. As much assistance as possible will be required to set up the field for all members, at the beginning of each session as well as at the end of each session to put the equipment away. I would also like to remind everyone that they must find their arrows when they miss the target as it is a shared field and we do not want anyone falling onto or just finding one of your arrows. Please make certain that you collect the same number of arrows as you have shot. It will help to speed up the process of finding lost arrows if all archers help in this search.
I look forward to see you all shooting outside and I’m keeping my fingers crossed for good archery weather. GOOD LUCK everyone !!!
It’s just like archery, but with big heavy balls.
And pins. And beer. And silly shoes.
Ok, maybe its not that like archery, but it is fun, and it’s what a good few of us will be doing on Saturday night down in Durham.
Obviously, the one way in which it will be similar to archery is that we Compounders will totally howk you Recurvists, just like we usually do.
Its ON.
I will report on Sunday just how badly we hammer the recurve crew, watch this space…
I am told that Julie’s new bow has arrived, but she is being coy about photos. We shall wait with baited breath to see if the dark side of the force is strong with this one…..
Ok you lot, “This be where we get our archery on” may very well have struck me as funny earlier on but it wont do as a long term thing.
Lets have some suggestions shall we?
My first (humourous) thought was:
Durham City Archers : Taking Archery Seriously
but I couldnt keep a straight face long enough to type it, can any of you do better?