A PAIR of differing outdoor archery rounds enabled the chance for two winners to be declared when Blue Lake Archers ran their Sunday afternoon event.
The good conditions for archery produced above the benchmark scores by four archers during the afternoon.
On a different front, a club member competed in the Great Southern Archers (GSA) Iron Arrow endurance archery event on the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide.
Archers on the local range were given the choice of either a 72-arrow Archery Australia 30/720 (AA30/720) or a three-distance Perth round.
A late change substituted the ubiquitous 90-arrow Melbourne round for the Perth round.
As the number of scored arrows differed between the rounds competed in, there was no ability to combine the results on this occasion, hence the chance for two winners at this week’s outdoor.
The AA 30/720 is over a single distance of 30 metres on a 122cm face while the Melbourne is also a single distance using the same size target face but at 50 metres.
The day marked a return to competitive archery for Louise Abbott after a long hiatus from the score sheets.
Since returning to the area and transferring back to the local club, Abbott has been regularly coaching beginners while working on her preparation for returning to competition.
The top three finishers in the AA 30/720 all recorded handicap adjusted scores above the 720 points expected.
After such a long absence from competition, Abbott’s scores caught the handicap scoring system snoozing.
Abbott obliterated her benchmark for the AA30/720 and gave the handicap scoring system a meltdown when she carded a score 389 points over the benchmark to easily win the AA 30/720 round.
Dale Tschirpig and Allan Oschar filled the second a third positions, both just above their respective benchmarks.
The Melbourne round winner also pushed beyond her benchmark by two points, Tamka Mullan making it a clean sweep on the local range for the female archers this week as she led home runner-up Paul Freeman by 13 points.
Ian Harris was the sole representative from BLA at the GSA Iron Arrow event this year.
To complete the Iron Arrow, Harris was required to put in an extremely long day, competing in a 120-arrow outdoor target round, a 72-arrow field archery round and finally a 60-arrow indoor round, a real test of endurance.
As an extra accolade, Harris was the only competitor in the field of archers that was classified as being in the 70+ age division.
Harris successfully completed the full day, but the overall win of the Iron Arrow was credited to GSA’s Lucus Clinton.
Indoor archery continues at the Blue Lake Gymnastics Club, Malseed Park, Friday at 7pm, followed by outdoor archery at Corriedale Park from 12.30pm on Sunday.
AA 30/720, handicap scored, benchmark 720 points: Louise Abbott 1118 (off the bow 660, score rating 62); Dale Tschirpig 726 (632, score rating 53); Allan Oschar, 722 (609, score rating 47); Byron Noble 590 (151, 590).
Melbourne, handicap scored, benchmark score 900 points: Tamika Mullan 902 (786, score rating 74); Paul Freeman 889 (815, score rating 81); Anthony Cox, 876 (737, score rating 64).
GSA Iron Arrow results
Overall winner of Iron Arrow was Lucus Clinton of GSA .
Individual Results for Ian Harris BLA.
Outdoor Target , Adelaide round possible score 1200.
1036(score rating 74)
Field 24 Targets, possible score 432 points.
327 (score rating 70)
Indoor Double AA, possible score 600 points.
554 (score rating 80)
