On Sunday the 25th of February 2024, more than 70 archers from across Devon, Cornwall and wider afield mustered at the YMCA in Plymouth for the Devon and Cornwall Archery Societies 46th Open Indoor Championship. Archers shot WA18m rounds over two sessions at this UK Record Status event, hosted by Yelverton Bowmen.

Whilst 18 clubs were represented in total, Yelverton Bowmen fielded 23 archers; almost 1/3 of the field, and shooting in all bow categories.

A great day was had by all those who took part and Yelverton Bowmen archers won several categories and medalled in all bow types.

Jenny Kerchey was the Lady Paramount for the event and handed out all of the trophies and medals.

The full tournament results can be found on IANSEO, the following section summarises the clubs results:

Individual Awards

• Alex Rowe, 1st place Recurve Men (Trophy and Gold medal)
  
• Neill White, 1st place Longbow Men (Trophy and Gold medal)
• Neill shot an Indoor Grand Master Bowman score and was only 2 points off of the national record
  
• Jack Cunningham, 1st place Recurve Men U16 (Junior Trophy)
  
• Josie Nuttall, 1st place Barebow Women U15 (Junior Trophy)
  
• Iain Lees, 2nd place Compound Men (Silver medal)
• Iain had an arrow malfunction and still only finished 1 points behind the first place archer!
  
• Linda Wright, 2nd place Barebow Women (Silver medal)
  
• Steve Marsh, 2nd place Barebow Men (Silver medal)
  
• Seraya Danes, 2nd place Recurve Women U15 (Silver medal)
  
• Finley Melia, 2nd place Recurve Men U18 (Silver medal)
  

  

Team Awards

• 2nd place in the ‘Club Recurve Team of 4 Archers: Francesca Canale-Dow, Andrew Axworthy, Jamie Pruden and Alex Rowe
• 3rd place in the ‘Mixed Doubles Team Recurve’: Francesca Canale-Dow and Andrew Axworthy
• 2nd place in the ‘Mixed Doubles Team Barebow’: Linda Wright and Jonathan Ward

Yelverton Bowmen club members ensured the success of the event on the day by providing full support to the DCAS organisers and judging team, as well as running a significant raffle. This was further supported by a group of members who took time out from shooting at club nights to overhaul all of the target bosses etc. Your support to this event is greatly appreciated and was warmly recognised by Ann Gillbanks (DCAS Tournaments Officer) for ensuring that the day ran so smoothly.

Thank you to all those who gave up their time to help and well done to all archers who took part!

Three Yelverton Bowmen archers gained entry into the Exmouth Archers hosted tournament between the 19th and 20th of August.

Iain Lees braved the early conditions on the Saturday in the Compound WA50 round and scoring a respectable 500 which earned him a White WA target badge. Results from day one can be found on Ianseo.net.

Sunday saw Linda Wright and Neill White join Iain to shoot the WA1440 rounds.

Conditions were somewhat better than the previous day with early rain giving way to sunshine in the afternoon and a packed shooting line with over 70 archers taking part.

Iain shot again a highly respectable 1154 in the Men’s Compound WA1440 and gained another 2 awards of the Black Star 1100 WA badge and a Blue DCAS FITA star – well done !

Linda came in 2^nd in the Ladies Barebow WA1440 with 599 points and Neill managed 3^rd in the Men’s Longbow WA1440 with a qualifying MB 50+ score of 473. Results from the second day can also be found on Ianseo.net.

It was another “good day out” for Yelverton Bowmen so hope to see more of us on the shooting line soon.

The next competition is the DCAS Autumn Gold hosted at Redruth Archers.

 

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

Kyrton Archer are running their Winter warmer competition in January 23. See their website for details

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

On Tuesday 25th October we will be holding a SPOOKTACULAR fun shoot for Halloween.

Fancy dress is optional – as some don’t need it ;P We do remind you that if you want to shoot in fancy dress, please make sure you don’t have loose items that may catch in your bow!

This shoot will be open to all members.

We’ll also run a raffle for the evening, with all proceeds to the club.

DCAS AGM is being held on 20th November 1400hrs at Yelverton memorial hall. They’re looking for some new members, please contact the DCAS secretary if you are interested.