1 March 2025
Welcome to the February report of the 2024/25 shooting season.
The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme. All three archers have achieved the highest level able to be awarded internally by the club, so well done to all three of you, especially Emma who has been shooting for less than a year:
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.
Badges were awarded to the following archers:
More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.
Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:
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 February round of the competition:
Despite only two of our teams winning this month only one team dropped a position in their division. The team positions after round four are as follows:
The following archer holds the highest score for the round shot by bow style:
Well done Jack.
Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:
As with the Portsmouth league 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 February round of the competition:
With 3 of our 5 teams winning the team positions after round four are as follows:
The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:
Well done to both of you.
Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:
The full tables for both Winter Postal leagues can be found here.
Amongst other University of Plymouth Archery Club members, Yelverton Bowmen archers Corey Richardson, Tobi Penter and Marilyn Wong attended the BUCS Indoor Southern Qualifiers where student archers from across the south of the UK compete to proceed to BUCS Indoor Finals taking place on the 23rd of March.
Marilyn Wong (Barebow Experienced Women) placed 1st across all three regions – Southern, Central and Northern – with a Portsmouth score of 539, securely earning her place in the finals.
Corey Richardson placed 7th with a score of 563 and Tobi Penter placed 57th with a score of 475.
Full results can be found in IANSEO.
Yelverton Bowmen were well represented again at this event with an impressive 22 archers across all four bow styles, for some* it was their first competition. Once again a big thank you goes out to all those who helped set up for the competition on the Saturday, and who helped and supported on the day. The DCAS team were very grateful for your support.
A special thanks goes to Sarah Watson for taking on the role of Lady Paramount for the day.
Individual archers performed as follows:
The team results were as follows:
The full results for the competition can be found here.
Bray 1 League
Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will 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 will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.
Details for this competition can be found here.
Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.
Regards,
John,
Records Officer
1 February 2025
Welcome to the January report of the 2024/25 shooting season.
The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme. All three archers have achieved the highest level able to be awarded internally by the club, so well done to all three of you, especially Emma who has been shooting for less than a year:
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.
Badges were awarded to the following archers:
More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.
Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:
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 January round of the competition:
All six of our teams won this month the team positions after round three are as follows:
The following archer holds the highest score for the round shot by bow style:
Well done Jack.
Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:
As with the Portsmouth league 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 January round of the competition:
With 3 of our 5 teams winning the team positions after round two are as follows:
The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:
Well done to both of you.
Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:
Marilyn Wong was the only Yelverton-affiliated university archer to compete in Leg 4 of the SWWU university league, which was hosted by the University of Exeter. She placed 1st in the Barebow Experienced Women’s category after shooting a Frostbite and scoring 223 out of 360.
The full results for the competition can be found here.
Yelverton Bowmen were well represented again at this event with 10 archers representing all four bow styles. Once again a big thank you goes out to Stan Axworthy for providing some much needed support.
The full results for the competition can be found here.
Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will 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 will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.
Details for this competition can be found here.
Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.
Regards,
John,
Records Officer
22 January 2025
A detailed assessment has been undertaken by the Club’s Records Officer, of the revised Archery GB Classification scheme to determine if it aligns with the current 252 Scheme.
It is clear from this assessment that the classification scheme reasonably aligns with both Men’s and Women’s Compound, Recurve and Barebow score levels. However there is some significant disparity for Longbow Men from 60 yards and Longbow Women from 50 yards onwards.
The committee has therefore agreed to amend the score requirements for Longbow Archers with immediate effect. All other bow types remain unchanged.
See the table below for the changes to Longbow score requirements:
Bow Style | Distance (yards) | ||||||||
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10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 80 | 100 | ||
Compound | 280 | 280 | 280 | 280 | 280 | 280 | 280 | 280 | |
Recurve | 252 | 252 | 252 | 252 | 252 | 252 | 252 | 252 | |
Barebow | 189 | 189 | 189 | 189 | 189 | 189 | 164 | 139 | |
Longbow Men | 164 | 164 | 164 | 164 | 164 | 126 | 101 | 72 | |
Longbow Women | 164 | 164 | 164 | 164 | 126 | 101 | 72 | 54 |
The committee has also agreed that with immediate effect the club will no longer support the Archery GB Outdoor Progress Scheme. Instead, it will use the 252 scheme only. This will save administration time for the Records Officer and confusion for the Club members.
The Archery GB Indoor Progress scheme will continue to be used.
Archers are reminded that when shooting outdoors they must only shoot rounds, or distances relative to their 252 qualification, i.e. you cannot shoot rounds at 50 yards until you have achieved your 40 yard 252 badge, and are then trying to obtain a 50 yard qualification.
Experienced archers who join the Club, but have no previous 252 qualification will be assessed to determine where they start in the scheme.
Adherence with these rules will ensure that we spend less time looking for lost arrows, and more time shooting.
These changes have been reflected on the Awards Schemes page of the Club Website.
1 January 2025
Welcome to the December report of the 2024/25 shooting season.
Neill White – 50+ Men’s Longbow
The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme. All three archers have achieved the highest level able to be awarded internally by the club, so well done to all three of you, especially Emma who has been shooting for less than a year:
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.
Badges were awarded to the following archers:
More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.
Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:
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:
With 5 of our 6 teams winning this month the team positions after round two are as follows:
The following archer holds the highest score for the round shot by bow style:
Well done Jack.
Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:
A document containing all of December’s submitted scores can be found here.
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:
As with the Portsmouth league 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 December round of the competition:
With only 2 of our 5 teams winning the team positions after round two are as follows:
The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:
Well done to both of you.
Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:
Three Yelverton Bowmen archers travelled up to Archery GB’s Indoor Nationals competition in Warwickshire this December, with Corey Richardson, KT Pollington and Marilyn Wong all completing a WA 18m round.
Corey finished 77th of 101 during qualification in the Compound Mens category, outside of the head-to-head cut-off. Marilyn and KT came 15th and 18th respectively during the seeding round for the Barebow Women’s category, meaning that their first head-to-head round was against each other!
Marilyn won her first head-to-head against KT, before losing in the second round to the eventual winner who dropped only 4 points across the 3 sets.
Corey competed again on Sunday’s Junior Indoor Nationals as an Under-21 archer, scoring 563 out of 600 on a Portsmouth round and finishing in third place receiving a bronze medal.
Two of our archers, Corey and Marilyn, competed in Leg 3 of the SWWU university league. Corey placed second in the Compound Experienced Men’s division, scoring a 559/600 Portsmouth round, and Marilyn won the Barebow Experienced Women’s category by a margin of 196 points to 2nd place with a score of 518.
The winter edition of the Archery GB magazine recognised the following Yelverton Bowmen archers achievements:
Well done to all of you. These are the kind of awards that are accessible to all of our archers if you take the plunge into competing in external competitions.
Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will 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 will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.
Details for this competition can be found here.
Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.
Regards,
John,
Records Officer
14 December 2024
Welcome to the combined October and November report of the 2024/25 shooting season.
Neill White – 50+ Men’s Longbow
Sarah Watson – Senior Ladies Recurve
Andrew Axworthy – Senior Men’s Recurve
Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women Longbow
Jeni Mattock – 50+ Women’s Barebow
John Pengilley – 50+ Men’s Barebow
The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in
the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme:
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.
Badges were awarded to the following archers:
More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.
Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:
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:
The team positions after round one are as follows:
The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:
Well done to both of you.
Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:
A document containing all of Novembers submitted scores can be found here.
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:
As with the Portsmouth league 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:
The team positions after round one are as follows:
The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:
Well done to both of you.
Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:
Seven Yelverton Bowmen archers (Sarah Watson, Andrew Axworthy, Emma Broadhurst, Neill White, Gary Wong, Linda Wright & John Pengilley) traveled
to Newquay to shoot in the Double Worcester competition: Emma Broadhurst came 1st in the Ladies Longbow, this is a fantastic result given that is was Emma’s first competition.
A good time was had by all those who took part (including our head cheerleader Stan), and we even came away with a significant haul in raffle prizes. The full results can be found here.
Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will 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 will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.
Details for this competition can be found here.
Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.
Regards,
John,
Records Officer
25 October 2024
Welcome to the September report of the 2023/24 shooting season.
In previous years we would now only focus on shooting indoors at the YMCA, however as there is one final round of the DCAS Summer Postal there were 4 outdoor evening sessions planned to allow archers to shoot these rounds.
The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme:
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.
Badges were awarded to the following archers:
More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.
Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Summer Postal Leagues:
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.
As you can see from above only 5 archers submitted scores across three of the six divisions entered in September, mostly due to the adverse weather conditions. Well done to all those who provided scores for this competition.
The following scores were submitted for the final round of the competition:
The following archers held the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:
Well done to all of you. DCAS medals have been requested and will be awarded in due course.
The final table positions are as follows:
A document containing all of August’s submitted scores can be found here.
Submission of a DCAS Summer Postal score sheet also gives you the opportunity to earn a Six Gold, Three Gold (Longbow) badge if you shoot the relevant score on the longest distance of your round. More information about this scheme can be found in the Award Scheme page of the club website.
Two Yelverton Bowmen archers travelled to Redruth for this DCAS organised competition shooting St George/Albion/Windsor rounds, and both shot well:
Gary Wong was the sole Yelverton Bowmen archer to make the trip to Somerset for this event. Gary shot very well and scored 546 (which is a Bowmen 1st Class score) to win the Gents Longbow competition by the small margin of 2 points. In addition to this Gary won the Highest score by a Longbow Tankard.
Well done Gary.
Two Yelverton Bowmen archers were invited to represent the Devon and Cornwall Archery Society at the above competition. The competition was shot in really wet conditions, however both archers shot well.
Both archers helped to ensure that the DCAS team achieved the following
results:
Six Yelverton Bowmen archers submitted scores for the Aim for Paris Virtual Challenge and AGB badges are in the process of being awarded to the following archers:
The club have applied for entry of the following teams in the DCAS Winter Postal competitions:
Portsmouth (indoor)
Frostbite (outdoor)
As with the summer postals these will be open to all club members. Archers scores should be submitted to the clubs records officer at the end of each month on a fully completed and signed club score sheet. However only one score should be submitted each month for entry into these competitions.
Both of these competitions start in November, however details of the competitions can be found here. If you have any questions please come and talk to me at one of our shooting sessions.
Scores submitted for these competitions will also qualify for individual Frostbite & Portsmouth badges.
Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will 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 will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.
Details for this competition can be found here.
21 January 2023
The DCAS 45th Open Indoor Championships will be held on the 26th February 2023 on our home ground at the YMCA Plymouth. Members can enter via the DCAS website or by completing the application form we have emailed you.
Next beginners course will run March 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th at the YMCA, Plymouth. Cost is £50 per person. Places are limited. Contact us via our Contact us page, or through our Facebook or Instagram pages
4 December 2022
Kyrton Archer are running their Winter warmer competition in January 23. See their website for details
19 October 2022
Our current indoor classification scheme only caters for Recurve and Compound shooters, leaving other bow styles at a disadvantage and struggling to compete.
With this in mind the committee and club have decided to extend the classifications to Barebow and Longbow for Portsmouth scores.
The Longbow classification will include other traditional bows without a shelf.
The usual rules apply for a classification rating; three separate qualifying (witnessed) scores must be submitted to the Records officer to gain an award and ultimately what everyone wants, a badge. Make sure you get a score card from Paul if you don’t have one already.
You can now download the updated score sheets from the records page