The 2nd Founder members shoot was shot on Saturday 10th March 2012. This year, 11 members attended the shoot 2012 Founder Members Shoot … Continue reading
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Saturday 10th March Belvoir Archers held their 1st Anniversary Founder Members Shoot. 10 club members and 3 guests shot the tournament. It was a gusty, overcast, cool day, but everyone enjoyed themselves. Mike Spare, our guest of honour, had a … Continue reading
Belvoir Archers would like to welcome 2 new longbow members to the club, Tony and Peter Emery – father and son. Peter did a beginners course in Bingham in 2010 but moved to Wilford Archers in 2011. Tony, after driving … Continue reading
On Sunday 19 February 5 members of Belvoir Archers travelled to Bsoton to take part in the “Brass Monkey” shoot hosted by Pilgrim Bowmen. Archers arriving for the shoot were greeted by a brilliant blue sky and temperatures that meant … Continue reading
On Sunday 12th February Dave and Bryan are starting their L1 coaching course. This means that Belvoir Archers will be in a position to undertake Beginners Courses and Have-A-Go courses in March/April time. If you are interested in undertaking a … Continue reading
Sunday 5th Feb saw the Nottinghamshire Indoor County Championships held by Sherwood Archers, a Portsmouth Round. A mixed bag of results were had by our archers, but we competed in 4 different categories this time, rather than just Longbow. The … Continue reading
The year end handicaps have been issued by Steve Gamble, Club Records Officer. Congratulations to Mark Charlish (longbow), Sue Haynes (Recurve) for improving from 1st Class to Bowman, Bryan Haynes for achieving 3rd Class Recurve and Jane & John Styles … Continue reading
Belvoir Archers like to welcome a new lady recurve archer to the club, Pip Gamble. Pip has been shooting recurve at Bingham for over 4 years before going to university. Pip has decided to folllow her father, Steve Gamble, and … Continue reading
Belvoir Archers have been accepted into the Archery GB Club Development Programme – ontarget This is a development programme that will help Belvoir Archers grow as a club, commit to training and developing the skills from non-archers wanting to start … Continue reading
31st October Sunday 30th October saw the final outdooor target shoot of the season, Belvoir Archers first outdoor Season. 4 of the 5 longbows went a hunting their dinner at the Pie n Beans Western at Sherwood Archers. A good … Continue reading
Sunday saw our second tournament of the year, the Winter Windsor. 50 Archers turned out to shoot the round with archers coming from as far a field as Chester and Friskney. There was a good mix of Longbows, Barebows, Compunds … Continue reading
On Saturday 17 September Bryan Haynes and Steve Gamble travelled to Bowmen of Glen to shoot their FITA Star tournament. The wind blew all day and all bowstyles were finding that it was dropping the arrows; just for some extra … Continue reading
The 2011 Nottinghamshire County Team Gents Longbow Selection – A story in 4 Chapters. Chapter 4 – The shoot that time (but especially our author) forgot…to write a report about. Sunday 10 July and most of our gents longbow archers … Continue reading
Last week, the phone rang and it was Tony Blaine of Laporte asking for some help. He would like to demonstrate the new “clay pigeon archery” system to one of his clients, so he asked if Belvoir Archers could must … Continue reading
Most people know that we have a strong longbow contingent in the club, but we do have a couple of the darkside in our midst that shoot Compound. Regularly seen up the field is Compound Steve. At long last, he … Continue reading
Sunday 21 August saw Mark, Dave and Steve travel to Abbeydale Archers’ beautiful but sloping ground near Sheffield to shoot a record status York. After much discussion about how to shoot straight on a ground that slopes downhill from right … Continue reading
Well, it has been a busy 3 weeks since our last post on the web, we have had archers all over the region shooting. During this period, Dave Seymour married his lovely bride – Mel – congratulations to you both. … Continue reading
Belvoir Archers invite you to shoot in our 1st Summer Windsor on Sunday 24th July 2011 1st Winter Windsor Archers Results The shoot will be a Windsor Round 60/50/40 yards for all archers including Juniors. Venue … Continue reading
Yesterday saw Belvoir Archers first open tournament the Summer Windsor, held at Barnstone. It was a hot day, with a bit of a tail wind. A total of 54 archers took part and enjoyed the day. Not only was it … Continue reading
The 19th of June dawned much the same as other days when our intrepid group were about to do battle on the field of archery – overcast with what would prove to be a tricky wind. Undeterred the famous 5 … Continue reading
over the weekend, the club were represented at 3 shoots,. The Goldern Arrow, County League Shoot 2/Oregon Challenge shoot 2 and a York around at Boston The Goldern Arrow The Goldern Arrow shoot at Sherwood was an interesting day. Another … Continue reading
Chapter 3 – Much Ado About Nothing Sunday 5 June and the not so famous 5 set up camp at the home of Sherwood Archers in Southwell (you say south-well, I say suth-ell … the debate goes on). Anyway back … Continue reading
On behalf of Belvoir Archers, we would like to welcome our newest member, Steve Burdett. Steve has been shooting compound for a number of years and is looking forward to shooting at a club closer to home than his more … Continue reading
1st June – The last cog in the gearbox On 1st June 2011, our final longbow founder member Steve Gamble has now switched over to shoot the rest of the season in a Belvoir Archers shirt – welcome on board … Continue reading
6 members of Belvoir Archers were selected to shoot for the Nottinghamshire Archery Society County Clout team in the EMAS 1st Senior Inter-Counties Team Clout Tournament on Sunday 27th March at Kettering Archers in Northamptonshire. Long Bow – Dave Seymour, … Continue reading
Today, with the assistance of Mike Spare, the County Chairman, Nottinghamshire welcomes a new club to the county – Belvoir Archers. Belvoir Archers have their own ground at Barnstone, a small village in the south of the county. First arrows … Continue reading
Today saw the start of the target outdoor season for two of Belvoir Archers members. Mark Charlish and David Seymour went to Wolverhampton Company of Archers Annual Open Spring Shoot. Both shot the York round with their longbows. The weather, … Continue reading
Today saw Sue Haynes in action at Meriden for their Pre Season FITA tournament. A very strong field of archers were present with the likes of Naomi Folkard, Simon Terry, Duncan Busby, Lee Ankers. Mario had given her a goal … Continue reading
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