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yesterday it was 12 sleeps to go.......

cheers
sue

Weather is lovely here 20 degrees today. A week to go. Weather looks good. Grounds are being prepared. Those wishing to join us we will be having catergories for Wooden arrows, Alloy and carbon arrows, Recurve, Longbow, historical/primative bow(as understood to be historical or primative in design), Male, Female and Junior all outlined in Flyer. We will have a number of courses running 3D, Paper, Challenge, speed. Distances for 3D will be between 15-30mts

So Tony you mean “ALL TRAD BOWS” are included, no matter what size or shape what an innovative idea

Just a weather update for the weekend of the Trad shoot in Lilydale.

Friday mostly sunny 18
Saturday Sunny 19
Sunday Mostly Sunny 20


Amazing weather, not too hot and with the some courses set out under the shady canopy of the Doongala state Forrest making the conditions on the ground perfect to shoot.

From what i have heard the courses will be a lot of fun with so much variety for all Traditional archers and the weather will be perfect all weekend for an absolutely great event.

Really looking forward to seeing as many archers there as possible. this will not be a shoot to miss out on.

Myself and a mate will be coming, looking forward to the shoot.
Matt

tomorrow it will be 5 sleeps to go...

cheers
sue

That is great Matt. Look forward to seeing you. I have to give you a bow for John.
regards Mark

only 4 sleeps to go....

cheers
sue

only 2 sleeps to go

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sue

Heading up to the range now. Fog is lifting. Sunny all weekend, come a join the merry men and women in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges.

Course is all set, looking good 20+ campers so far. 8am kick off tomorrow.

Well, there's no doubt about it, The Lilydale Bowmen certainly know how to hold a trad event. It was imaginative, well organised and totally successful. The numbers of competitors were higher than expected, which was great. The meals were ridiculously inexpensive and they were a gastronomic delight.

The shoot itself was made up of four different parts, a fairly standard 10 target 3D course with magnificent large Rinehart targets, in which competitors shot 2 arrows, both of which scored. This was followed by a 10 target 'challenge' course, which was designed to add some real difficultly for the competitors. On this course you were allowed 3 arrows, with just the one shot per target and if you lost or broke arrows on the many obstacles, you could only shoot what you had left in your quiver at the last target. This round was followed by a 3 arrow, 10 target ABA course, which was finally followed by 2 speed shoots where competitors had to shoot as many arrows as they liked into a series of targets within a time restraint of 1 minute. The targets were then scored in the usual manner. Competitors were required to do the entire above course twice over the 2 days, so there were lots and lots of arrows shot.

The most important thing about the shoot was that there was lots of laughter and kind hearted banter. Nobody seemed terribly interested in their scores too much.

A huge well done to the many members of the Lilydale club who made this event a total success.

I didn't take many photos, but I will post up the ones I have shortly.

Here's a few photos.

A few more.

My goodness Mick, I was just astounded when you had the photo of Timbow - good to see him back shooting and I hope he had a good time with the rest of you
I did notice the beanies...
Thanks for the couple of photo's.

cheers
sue

Here's my last 3 photos. It's too hard to shoot and take photos simultaneously, hence there's not many.

little arrows wrote:My goodness Mick, I was just astounded when you had the photo of Timbow - good to see him back shooting and I hope he had a good time with the rest of you
I did notice the beanies...
Thanks for the couple of photo's.

cheers
sue

It was a pleasant surprise to see Timbow. It was a little cool in the morning, but we were down to t-shirts before lunchtime.

I felt a bit sorry for poor old Tim actually. His wife had been suffering from the dreaded gastro and he felt a little guilty leaving her at home. Towards the end of day one, Tim started to feel very crook too. He ended up making a quick departure for home. I hope he made it without fouling his car up too much.

In my description of the actual shoot, I completely forgot about the ''Lillydale rules'' round, where we could take up to two shots at 3D targets, but only the last arrow shot scored. It was fun to try to goad your team mates to take another shot when their first was already a scoring shot and it was especially fun when they missed their second shot. Well it was fun, until it I happened to fall victim to it and lost 5 points.

I would like to say a BIG thankyou to all who helped make this a great weekend/shoot.
We had 56 archers registered and 36 for tea on Sat. night. Also ,...thanks to Tyler and
the Ballarat Boys and Hayden etc. etc. It is good to see young people involved.
Once again everybody,....thanks.
regards Mark

looks like a great shoot with a terrific range.

A massive credit to Kahuna and Tony J .It would be the best all round Trad outing I have ever attended.
The trad community really shone at this one. Jenny's menu was sensational.
Darn it Mick.... you trumped my Man in Black Handshake with having been to a Chuck Berry concert.
Plus... AHHHHHH the horror of the broken arrow award.

Here is a few Photos I took on the weekend.............. first shoot for me. Had a ball. I will be on the circuit as much as I can next year. Thanks to all involved!!!!!!!!

some more......

Last few......

Great stuff!!!

I didn't catch up with you at Lilydale mikaluger, but I tried to. Are you in any of the photos?

Nice job Mike,pity about the one with the photographer in it. Some old f..... wait thats me
Mike glad your first was enjoyable and thank you for the donation to our auction table, much appreciated.
Cheers
TonyJ

Yeah Mick,
second lot of photos, 1st photo and 4th photo. I had to take off Sunday and couldn't hang around so I'm sure we will catch up next time!!!!!

Tony,
I actually like that photo of you, that was a great snap! No worries about the donation, I hope you got something for it!!!!!!!

See you soon.

Here are the scores for all 10 rounds of our shoot.

if you want to download a copy in an editable format, look at the bottom of this post for the attached TXT file.

Thanks for the scores and all the scoring and printing of certificates Brad.

If you go to Lilydale Bowmens Facebook
you will find all of my photos. Become a friend of the group you will accepted almost immediatey. Enjoy many a ozbow member there.
TonyJ