Northants vs Beds Inter-county Frostbite Postal Match

Northants vs Beds Inter-county Frostbite Postal Match

Hi All Archers!!!

I know he’s at it again and a lot of you have been asking if the intercounty Frost Bite shoot will be on this year I can confirm its on!!

Similar format as before see below, alongside the intercounty bit I’m going to run the novice shoot again so if you could all do the usual shout out at the clubs circulate as required.

So please see the below.

As the heading suggests, in collaboration with Bedfordshire, we have arranged a intercounty match. Details as follows.

We are hoping that all NCAS clubs and archers will be able to take part.

1. Round to be shot: Frost Bite, 80cm face @30m including all the junior rounds (Cold Bite @20m Chilly Bite@10m not official round but get some new archers and those that can’t get 30m).

2. Eligible archers: All genders and ages. If a junior please give your age and round/distance shot.

3. Bow Styles: All Compound, Recurve, Barebow & Longbow, Including Traditional ( Wooden Arrows, wooden Bow) outside of Longbow.

4. When to be shot: Starts Nov1st 2023 closing date 31st March 2024.

5. How round is to be shot: Where possible can the 3 dozen be shot on the same day.

6. Record all the scores as you would normally, X`s, 10`s and so on. Please submit the final score totals only (not each individual arrow value) in the normal format, including the following information.

Archer, Gender. Club. Bow Style. Senior/Junior (if junior age) Please indicate if you’re a Novice and round shot. Hits, 10’s, X’s, Score

Example: J Doe. Female. Earth. Longbow. Senior. 36 (hits). 13 (10’s). 5 (X’s). Score: 360.

7. All the scores will be on trust. We will be watching you.

8. Scores can be submitted either by sending the details direct to myself or your club selection committee volunteer. If these are to be sent direct to me please let me know details as mention in point 6.

Martin Ross
NCAS County Captain

Ivy Keating Results

A big thank you to all the archers who made it to the Ivy Keating shoot on Sunday 21/05/23, a great days shooting in tricky conditions.

Northants came back with a win for the day and taking the trophy’s in many of the sections.

Like to extend a big thank you to Pepperstock Archers who looked after us with a fantastic lunch and a great field party.

Always a good fun shoot against Bedfordshire can’t wait for the next one.

Well done to the following archers lifting the individual team trophies for the highest scores in the team.

In no Particular order:
Bare Bow – Derek Bett and with a new county record
Compound – Jon Bull
Recurve – Steve Rainbow

Results

Regards

Martin

NCAS County & Open Indoor Championships 2023 – Results

NCAS County & Open Indoor Championships 2023 – Results

The results are available from the NCAS County & Open Indoor Championships 2022, which took place on Sunday 19th March.

Results

A big thank you to Archers of Raunds for once again putting on a fantastic shoot on behalf of the county.

This shoot is part of the NCAS Chris Mason Celebration League.

The county match between Northants and Bedfordshire also took place during the event. The results for this will be available asap.

Photo’s from the day courtesy of Keith Simpson and Antony Parkin.

NCAS vs BCAA Inter-County Postal Frostbite Results

Hi Archers!!

So for the 90+ archers that took part in the intercounty Frostbite shoot the results are in!!

From the 90+ the following team size was agreed between the 2 counties.

6 Snr Recurve
6 Snr Comp
6 LB/FB/TRAD Et.. (wooden arrows)
6 Barebow
5 Juniors ‘any bow style’

It was a close run event up to the point where there was only 7 points between both counties.

6648 to BCAA with 6641 to NCAS.

Then the junior scores were added and the victory went to… NCAS by 149 points.

BEDS (BCAA) – 7815
NCAS – 7964

RESULTS

Well done for all those that took part, Frostbite badges and the other bits will be out to your club reps shortly to hand out thankyou again for taking part.

Martin Ross
County Squad Captain