BLUE Lake Archers added community engagement and education to its activities over the weekend.
The club was approached to host an archery program for KEMI Kids Naracoorte OSHC and VAC CARE and a visit was organised for last Friday.
The group of budding archers travelled to Corriedale Park to learn about archery and try their hand at the sport.
Ian Harris and Garry Jacques donated their time to run the special session which staff deemed as a complete success and intend to organise a repeat of the exercise in the future.
A 72-arrow WA 50/720 round was held Sunday, with the warm spring sunshine attracting numbers and seeing many donning sun-sensible broad-brimmed hats.
The practice range was active with Phil Tremelling coaching those trying the sport – this required an extra target butt to be deployed to accommodate the nine competitors on the main range.
The round is unique as it utilises a modified small 80cm target face where only arrows landing in scoring zones five points and higher are counted.
The combination resulted in the occasional miss being recorded on score sheets for archers that normally have blemish-free sheets.
All-gold ends were hard won, with only four recorded for the entire day.
Ben Kilsby claimed two such ends, while Ian Perry and Graham Lock managed one each.
Bragging rights for highest off-the-bow scores was closely contested, but it was Kilsby who bettered Lock by just two points.
However, once handicap margins were factored in the final scores for the day revealed third place was settled by a single point with Perry squeezing Lock off the podium.
After dominating the adjusted scores for the past several weeks, Len Bayley found he had a fox in his henhouse, with the arrival of Paul Freeman into the handicap scoring system.
Freeman capitalised on his freshly minted handicap margin and was able to record the winning score by 13 points over Bayley.
