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Nethermoss Clout Archers In The Rankings

Once again Nethermoss Archers make it into the Clout rankings. For the first time FITA/Metric Clout has been recognised along with the normal Imperial rankings. Nethermoss Clout enthusiasts, Husband and Wife Longbow Archers Tracey, & Ian Scott along with junior Jack Grogan were ranked in both categories. In the newly recognised FITA/Metric rankings Tracey was ranked 4th, and Ian was ranked 10th. Our junior clout competitor Jack was ranked in 2nd position.

Moving to the normally chosen Imperial rankings Tracey once again proved that she is one of the top Clout Archers in Britain by being ranked 3rd. Husband Ian did not fare as well as Tracey, but still managed in gaining very creditable place ranking of 22nd. Jack managed to gain the position of highest ranked junior Recurve Archer for the third year in succession.

Next year’s ranking system will be revised to be a combination of both FITA/Metric, and Imperial rounds to create one ranking. Competitors will have to shoot a minimum of two FITA/Metric, and three Imperial Clout rounds to be within the ranking system.

Tracey Scott Wins The National Ladys Longbow Champion Title

A heavy mist blanketed the grounds of Rawdon meadow the home ground of the Bronte Archery Club. It was the venue of the annual GNAS clout championships, fortunately the mist soon dissipated revealing a ground that looked like it was covered in a light frost, but on closer inspection was found to be thousands of dew covered finely woven spiders webs. Nethermoss clout Archers Tracey & Ian Scott (Longbows) along with a heavily flu ridden Jack Grogan (Recurve) attended the shoot. 137 Archers were in attendance, and all enjoyed the mild pleasant conditions in contrast to yet another outdoor season of poor weather conditions for archery.

Ian as normal was enjoying the shoot regardless of what he was scoring.

Jacks being unwell showed in his scores. Scoring his worst score ever at his distance, over 50 points short to that of which he normally scores, he only managed to secure 3rd place. To add insult to injury, he got the perfect clout when his arrow went through the base of flag pole with the point sticking into the soil on its exit! Unfortunately the best clout was awarded earlier in the day.

Tracey was scoring very well, often getting all arrows within the scoring zone, which is no easy task particularly when shooting a Longbow. Her score was so good, beating all others by a large margin, that it won her the revered title of ‘The National Lady’s Longbow Champion’, a title which she now holds for twelve months.

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Tri-Clout Weekend

Variable winds and rain plagued the Cheshire Archery Associations Tri- Clout shoot held at Neston Company of Archer’s grounds. That didn’t stop the enthusiasm of those archers competing in this major event in the clout calendar. Nethermoss clout archers Ian & Tracey Scott along with Jack Grogan competed in all three days with varying success.

Day two of the event was a one way double clout incorporating the Cheshire Clout Championships. The weather was similar to the previous days but with slightly less rain. Tracey shot quite well ending up being placed third on the day. Ian wasn’t having too good a time score wise, but he was enjoying the shoot nevertheless. Jack finished the shoot with a high score that won him the highest scoring visitor’s trophy, and taking him even closer to the supreme champion trophy.

Day one was a two way double clout in which all the archers struggled against the fairly strong winds when shooting on the return ends of the six dozen arrows, constantly having to adjust their site marks to suit the conditions. Despite the varying winds and occasional bursts of heavy rain Longbow Archers Ian & Tracey did quite well, with Tracey winning the Lady’s first place medal. Jack also did well, and was presented with the first place junior recurve medal. This put both Tracey and Jack in good positions to win the overall supreme champion trophy’s at the end of the three day shoot.

next award to be presented. Unfortunately Tracey's name was not the name called, she had just missed out by a few points from winning it, resulting in her winning second place overall.

Ian, Tracey, and Jack once again flew the flag for Nethermoss.

The final day (day three) of the shoot was a FITA/Metrics round, and as with the other two days of the competition was once again plagued by poor weather conditions. As well as the wind and rain, it was also quite cold. These poor conditions continued throughout the shoot and into the final presentations. The first part of the presentation was for the individual rounds of the day, and although Tracey felt that she didn’t do too well on the day, she was awarded the second place

medal. Jack once again came first and was presented with the medal. The second part of the presentation was for the supreme champion awards; Jack was the first to be called up to collect his supreme champion trophy, a trophy he has now been awarded for two years in succession.

Results To Follow

The lady’s Longbow supreme trophy was the

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A Letter From Peter Gregory

Neston Tri Clout Weekend
Bank Holiday Weekend 27th-28th-29th August 2011

Hi Archers,

Please let me start by telling you what the Tri Clout Weekend is, it’s a 3 day shoot open to all GNAS members. Saturday starts with a GNAS 2 way clout, Sunday (Cheshire and Open Clout Championship) one way GNAS Clout and Monday is a FITA Clout with Metric distances for junior archers to shoot, all three shoots are record and tassel status events.

This is the only 3 day Clout event taking place in the Country, the Venue is at Neston Company of Archers, Wirral Rugby ground Neston , Archers Travel far and wide to attend this shoot, there is a site for camping but if that’s not for you and you like your comforts then there are plenty of B+B’s to look after you, also if you want to make a long weekend family holiday and some of your family don’t shoot then theirs loads to see and do, such as visit the city of Chester, go to the Zoo, also Cheshire Oaks retail Outlet, Go-Ape tree climbing adventure, so there’s lots to do and see while you enjoy your shooting, as a reward for those archers who enter all 3 days you will be placed into the Supreme Archers Award, this is for the Compounds, Longbows, Barebows And Recurve. Your scores are then added up over the 3 days and the highest score from each category gets a lovely trophy to keep for a year (annual trophies).

This shoot has proved very popular and only into its second year the amount of success gained by the archers is tremendous, this year saw 19 national records broken, 23 Metric tassel awards (3 of which are purple) and 12 imperial tassel claims made.

So If you fancy yourself as a potential Supreme Clout Archer or just fancy a good days clout shooting then go to the Cheshire website for more details of next year’s shoot, 25th-26th-27th of August 2012.

Good Shooting.
Tournament Organiser
Peter Gregory.

Another of our Longbow archers, Dave Wright, also represented Nethermoss on the day. Although new to Clout shooting he attained a reasonable score which put him mid field within the large entry of Longbow archers.

L.A.A. Clout Championships

Husband and wife Ian & Tracey Scott had a successful day at the Lancashire Archery Associations Clout shoot held at Maghull near Liverpool. Tracey won the Ladies longbow trophy by a clear margin,

and along with husband Ian, they won the Longbow team trophy also.

Our junior entrant was Jack Grogan won the Lancashire junior champion title, and the John Allison trophy for the fifth year running.

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Longbow Archers Clout Wins

Day two was the Double two way GNAS clout. Tracey managed to hold on to a minimal lead to win the day with a score of 48. She came home very happy with the two Eagle Bowmen Trophies for the weekend.

Eagle Bowmen Weekend 11th and 12th June

Eagle Bowmen hosted a weekend of Clout and two of our Longbow archers, Tracey and Ian Scott took part on both days.

Day one was the Double one way Fita clout in which Tracey won the lady longbow trophy with a score of 223 also managing to get a five gold end, with her sixth arrow being a four.

BLBS Lancashire Clout meeting at Blundell Sands, Crosby.

Four of our longbow members entered the BLBS Lancashire Clout meeting, Dave, Barry, Ian and Tracey.

This shoot is run under BLBS rules, and the ladies shoot 120 yards to the mens 180 yards. A good day was had by all in the glorious weather. Our lady archer Tracey won the ladies longbow medal by coming first with a score of 105, which doubled her score last year. She also won the shoot off by ends, so came home with two of the societies medals.

Nethermoss Archers

West Lancashire, England