On Wednesday 17 July 8 members of 41 Club and our sister organisation Farts together with 1 guest attended the annual archery competition arranged by Darren and kindly hosted by members of Scarborough Archers at their club field on Osgodby Lane Cayton.
Recently retired GP and former Chairman of 41 Club Mark Laws graced the competition with his presence wearing a particularly fetching T shirt.
After the anticlimax of last year’s competition which was brought to a premature end by heavy rain this year Darren’s sacrifice to the rain gods worked and the competition took place in glorious sunshine. There were even complaints by some competitors that the sun was in their eyes but they just couldn’t shoot straight!
With members of Scarborough Archers on hand to provide instructions on how to shoot an arrow without injuring anyone to those who had never previously held a bow and a reminder of the correct technique and safety instructions for those veterans of previous competitions the evening started with some practice shooting arrows at targets before the budding archers were divided into 2 groups.
The first group went off into the woods to shoot some exotic Cayton wildlife while the other group remained behind to shoot 6 ends at the targets.
After a short break for coffee and biscuits the 2 groups swapped places.
Surprisingly the scoring was very good. Out of a maximum score of 389 Darren came third with a score of 328, Gordon second with a score of 333 but the outright winner with a very impressive score of 347 was our Vice Chairman Richard. Medals were presented to these 3 by Scarbrough Archers
Although not placed 2 competitors each scored a golden end with all 6 arrows in the gold. So as not to cause them to become too full of themselves the competitors will remain anonymous but one of them did manage to take a photo of his feat for posterity!
All but Mark (for whom clearly the evening had been too exiting) then retired to the Fox Hound at Flixton where the very welcoming host made a valiant attempt to turn 8 hungry and thirsty customers away but was prevailed upon with some ill grace to reopen the kitchen and increase his turnover for the evening.
A good evening’s entertainment and thanks to Darren for organising the event
41 Club Archery Correspondent
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