Martin Ross

Northants vs Beds Inter-county Frostbite Postal Match

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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

Long Buckby AC 1st Bob Fricker Trophy Shoot

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Long Buckby AC 1st Bob Fricker Trophy Shoot

To all archers that took part in the Bob Fricker Trophy shoot, Long Buckby Archery Club would like to thank you all, it was great to see you all brave what turned out to be a very Hot day!! And then the Thunder and lightning came you couldn’t write it if you tried.

Thank you to all that helped set up the shoot and those that helped through the day.

Again thank you from the club, And congratulations to Dean Edwards of Towcester Archers, who won the Bob Fricker Trophy with the highest scoring round with a recurve.

Regards

Martin Ross
Chair – Long Buckby Archery

Results

This shoot is part of the 2022/23 NCAS Chris Mason Celebration League.

Session 1 photos courtesy of Dean Edwards & Mark Allison.

NCAS v SCAA Postal Match Results

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NCAS v SCAA Postal Match Results

Hi, All Archers who took part in the recent Postal Shoot!!

Yes I’m back with the results I would like to thank you all that took part putting your scores in and keeping me busy as per the normal for this event I will be passing out badges to all that took part along with certificates medals, broaches etc depending if you made the final squad or took part.

On this occasion we outnumbered the archers from SCAA by 5 to 1 !! so we in for a good to chance!!

Some fantastic scores submitted and when you look at the scores submitted you will see what I meen.

So as usual couldn’t tell you what the weather was like, but I’m hoping you all enjoyed getting the scores, now enough of my ramblings time for the scores so here we go!!

Full Results

Yep we won!!!!

Again I’d like to thank Clair SCAA team manager/ Captain for working with me on this one and to Helen for getting us to speak to each other to put the event on.

Okay so look out as there is plans to hold other Postal with SCAA and maybe others!!

Good shooting and thank you for your support.

Martin Ross
NCAS Team Captain

New challengers on the Horizon – NCAS V SCAA Postal Match.

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New challengers on the Horizon – NCAS V SCAA Postal Match.

A reminder to all archers in the county about the NCAS vs SCAA Short Metric Postal Match…

As the heading suggests, we have been approached for an inter-county match with Somerset County Archery Society, and we have arranged a socially distanced match. Details as follows and we are hopeful that all NCAS clubs and archers will be able to take part.

1. Round to be shot: Short Metric, including all the junior rounds (M1, M2,M3, M4, M5).

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

3. Bow Styles: All Including Traditional (Wooden Arrows, BB & Horse Bow) outside of Longbow.

4. When to be shot: Between 25th June 2022 and scores to be sent to myself by Midnight of the 24th July 2022.

5. How round is to be shot: Where possible can the 6 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. Senior/Junior (if junior age and which round shot), Club, Bow Style, Score Info.

Example: J Doe. Female. Senior. Club-Middle Earth. Longbow. Hits-36. 10’s-23. X’s-13. 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.

Club’s, please let your members know about this postal match, and let me know if we can expect scores from your archers.

Martin Ross
NCAS County Captain