Welcome to the Yelverton Bowmen Records Officer report for April and May 2026.

Club Records shot during April and May 2026:

April:

Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow:

• Stafford – Score 296 (no previous record)

Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• WA 60m – Score 421 (no previous record)
• Metric 122-50 – Score 543 (previous record 514)

May:

Alice Burgoyne – Senior Women’s Recurve:

• Windsor 40 (formerly Junior Windsor) – Score 777 (previous record 683)
• Bristol V – Score 1158 (no previous record)
• National 40 (formerly Junior National) – Score 514 (previous record 458)

Martin Jackson – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• Bristol IV – Score 1126 (no previous record)

Carmen Bottrell – Senior WoMen’s Barebow:

• Western 40 (formerly Junior Western) – Score 747 (no previous record)
• Metric 122-40 – Score 327 (no previous record)
• Bristol IV – Score 1073 (previous record 1020)

John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• Long Warwick – Score 290 (previous record 280)
• Hereford/Bristol I – Score 902 (previous record 717)
• Albion – Score 753 (no previous record)
• Double WA 50m – Score 1144 (previous record 1113)

KT Pollington – Senior WoMen’s Barebow:

• Long Warwick – Score 228 (previous record 225)
• WA 50m – Score 518 (previous record 488)
• Long Western – Score 482 (previous record 374)

Phil Lomas – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• Western 30 (formerly Short Junior Western) – Score 756 (no previous record)

Samantha Horton – Senior WoMen’s Longbow:

• Albion – Score 251 (no previous record)

Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• WA 60m – Score 487 (previous score 421)
• Double WA 60m – Score 893 (no previous record)

Callum Lyth – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• Windsor 40 – Score 695 (no previous record)

Classifications

The following Classifications have been achieved and badges are in the process of being issued:

• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 1st Class and Outdoor Archer 2nd Class
•  Alan Horton (Recurve) – Outdoor Bowman 3rd Class
• Alice Burgoyne (Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 1st Class
• Martin Jackson Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 1st Class and Outdoor Bowman 3rd Class
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Outdoor Bowmen 2dn Class
• Alan Buckingham (Compound) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
• Jakub Pazdan (Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 2nd Class
• Callum Lythe (Barebow) – Outdoor Archer 3rd Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

• Will Carver (Compound) – 20yd
• Martin Jackson (Recurve) – 50yd
• Alan Buckingham (Compound) – 20, 30 and 40yd
• Alan Buckingham (Barebow) – 20yd
• Alan Buckingham (Compound) – Indoor AGB Gold Progress award
• Andrew Howie (Longbow) – 20 and 30yd
• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – 40yd

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Competitions

Indoor Bray I League

The competition is run from the beginning of October to the end of March, and as such this means that all indoor shooting sessions during this period are considered to be club Target days.

This means that archers have been able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

The results are in. 8 archers submitted qualifying scores for this competition, however the winner this year is………..

1st place

• Jeni Mattock (7251 points)

2nd place

• Alan Horton (7235 points)

3rd Place

• Paul Mattock (7220 points)

Well done Jeni. Certificates and trophy have been awarded.

DCAS Summer Postal

The club entered the following teams into the DCAS Summer Postal Warwick Leagues which will run between May and September 2026:

• One Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team
• One Senior and Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team
• One Senior and Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team
• Two Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 teams
• One Junior U16 Mixed Style Warwick 30 team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the first round of the competition in May:

The team positions after round 1 are as follows:

• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team – 6th place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team – 6th place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team “A” – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team “B” – 5th place in Division 3
• Junior U16 Mixed Style Warwick 30 team – Equal 1st place in Division 1

The following archers are the current highest individual scorers:

• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Long Warwick (228)
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Long Warwick (290)

St Austell Bay Archers Open WA 25m/18m – 12th April 2026

Al, Alice and Martin shot at the St Austell Bay Archers Open WA 25m/18m competition in April, with Alice coming in 2nd place.

National Tour Stage 1 (Lilleshall) – 25th and 26th April 2026

John Pengilley managed to get to shoot both days of the National Tour stage 1. This was Johns first opportunity to shoot at a competition of this level, however the conditions on both days were ideal.

Day 1 was an extra opportunity to shoot a single WA 50m (Barebow) round. John scored 553 and came 5th.

Day 2 was another single WA 50m (Barebow) round, but followed by a Head to Head competition. John shot well in the ranking round, scoring 580 points and coming 20th out of 70 archers.

Unfortunately, John was knocked out in the first round of the head to head competition, losing 6-4. This meant that John finished in 35th place overall. However John did achieve his first score towards his 50+ Grand Master Bowman (GMB) classification.

Exmouth Archers WRS Double 720 – 10th May 2026

John Pengilley was the only archer representing Yelverton Bowmen at this competition. The conditions were very testing with a constant 15mph wind, gusting up to 30mph throughout the day. All archers found it challenging.

John won the Open Barebow category scoring a total of 1113 points, with one of the WA 720 rounds providing Johns second score (569) towards his 50+ GMB classification.

Redruth archers Spring Tournament Day 1 – 16th May 2026

Once again this weekend proved popular with Yelverton Bowmen who had 11 archers covering all bow styles shooting York/Bristol rounds. With many of them shooting at their first outdoor competition.

Impressively, every archer medalled with several shooting new club records.

• Iain Lees (Compound) – Came 1st in the Open York category, scoring 1102
• Gary Wong (Longbow) – Came 2nd in the Open York category, scoring 188
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Came 1st in the Women’s Hereford category, scoring 260
• Andrew Howie (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Hereford/Bristol I category, scoring 655
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Came 1st in the 50+ Open Hereford/Bristol I category, scoring a new club record of 902
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Bristol II category, scoring 982
• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Women’s Bristol IV category, scoring a new club record of 1073
• Martin Jackson (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Bristol IV category, scoring a new club record of 1126
• Jakub Pazdan (Recurve) – Came 2nd in the Open Bristol IV category, scoring 1058
• Alice Burgoyne (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Women’s Bristol V category, scoring a new club record of 1158
• Callum Lyth (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Open Bristol V category, scoring 1069

Redruth Archers Spring Tournament Day 2 – 17th May 2026

Day 2 saw 10 of the archers who shot on day 1 taking to the field again to shoot St George/Albion/Windsor rounds with as impressive results as day 1.

• Iain Lees (Compound) – Came 2nd in the Open St. George category, scoring 851
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Came 1st in the Women’s Albion category, scoring a new club record of 251
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Open Albion category, scoring a new club record of 753
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor category, scoring 716
• Alice Burgoyne (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Women’s Windsor 50 category, scoring 675
• Martin Jackson (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor 50 category, scoring 800
• Andrew Howie (Longbow) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor 50 category, scoring 394
• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Women’s Windsor 40 category, scoring 767
• Callum Lyth (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor 40 category, scoring a new club record of 695
• Jakub Pazdan (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor 40 category, scoring 884

SWWU Outdoor Championships WA 720 and H2Hs – 17th May 2026

Two Yelverton Bowmen archers were part of the University of Plymouth’s team at the final South West and Wales University league leg of the academic year.

Grace Addicott scored 335, seeding in 12th place in the Recurve Experienced combined category but opted not to proceed to the Head to Head matches. Corey Richardson seeded in top position for the Compound combined category with a score of 519, proceeding directly to the gold medal match which he won 116-103.

Brixham Archers WRS Double 720 – 24th May 2026

Four Yelverton Bowmen archers made the journey to Brixham to take part in the WRS Double WA 720 competition. It turned out to be another challenging day with the temperature and humidity rising throughout the day. This had a significant impact on a lot of the competitors scores.

Three of the four archers managed to come away with medals.

• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Came 2nd in the Women’s Double WA 70 category scoring 95
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Double WA 60 category scoring 893
• Corey Richardson (Compound) – Came 5th in the Open Double WA 50 category, scoring 1141
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Open Double WA 50 category, scoring a new club record of 1144

Regards,
John,
Records Officer