Great Southern Tournament 2009

[BigBenno]

Well its going ahead again, on the Melbourne Cup Weekend,
31st Oct to the 2nd Nov

Kings Round
Castle Clout
3D hunt
Indoor round
flu flu shooting
running pig
3d indoor

and of course our famous traditional Spit Roast feast

Hope to see you all there
contact Peter on 0429429240
pben8110@gotalk.net.au


hope to see you all there
Lady Sam needs a challenge lol

[Waltron]

I'll try to make this my first trad event.
Having seen photos of the last castle clout, I've been waiting for the opportunity to
attend one.
What are the rules regarding equipment: Aluminium arrows etc.?

[hue]

hmm Waltron?

Lady Sams bow is not exactly trad, was it?

Hue

[matt_d]

Should be a good one!
Agreed Hue - I believe it was a target recurve with rest & plunger.. Not to take anything away from her ability as she is a good shot and obviously very well practiced.
Cheers,
Matt

[stringnstik]

this was our first contact with archery and many of you folk...wouldnt miss it

[BigBenno]

wooden arrows and feathers
flu flu's for the bird

recurve, longbow, horsebow


wicked spit roast


and a butt kicking by Lady Sam what more could you all ask for

[Len]

A division just for horsebows hey, think I'll make a Sioux style bow up so i can shoot horsebow.

[BigBenno]

actually we have longbow, traditional, and barebow recurve, horsebows in the barebow recurve section.

we will also be running the junior sections again, and would love it if heaps of kids come along again, it was great to see them all last year and the local TV and newspapers really pushed it

[jfruitcake]

Hey all,

We should be down for the weekend again, the kids love the weekend.

Count us 5 in

[BigBenno]

I was sent a request for directions and location so here they are.

Location
Twin City Archers Gippsalnd Inc.
Latrobe City Archery Park
Toners Lane, Morwell

Directions
Take the first exit at morwell, Follow the large direction signs LOL

[White Hawk]

Hi folks,
the flyer for your info and registration

cheers

Gav

[BigBenno]

Thanks Gavin looking forward to seeing you there.

Lady Sam is going to use a longbow for this tournament. I have been watching her and she shoots it as well as her recurve.

come along to beat her if you can

[BigBenno]

Ive had a few people ask why this event is listed for 3 days instead of 2

its because its a long weekend, and everyone can stay the extra day if they wish, we will try to have some fun on the extra day

looking forward to this event as always

[BigBenno]

off to Sydney for the World Masters then back to set up for the Great Southern Tournament, remember to send in your entries, so we can cater for you all

[DerekTheWonderFerret]

Hi Pete

Hope you made it back in one piece from the Masters. It was a great shoot wasn't it (especially if you like wind)? I'll treasure my clout silver won with the longbow.

My lady and I are planning on coming up for the Great Southern. The last time I rode over on the bike from Adelaide, so the trip up from the Peninsula should be much quicker this time. Thanks Gavan for the flyer with the different events. Dawn should do well in the Indoor at least, it being her field of victory at the National Indoor.

Any chance of getting a breakdown of which events are programmed for which days? We might not be able to stay for the whole time.

Pete

[hue]

C'mon Derek

commit

Happy Birthday Peter Bennet, you can't slip that one past this forum mate

Hue

[jfruitcake]

Don't think we will make it this year, all public victorian school children have to go to school on the monday and the kids want to go to Halloween parties on Saturday, please someone sink the US and its silly ideas

[Roadie]

Afternoon All, Am coming down for this one, also bringing the Bride, is this a Dry camp or are we allowed to bring our own .Looking forward to a good shoot and your feast. Hue will you be at this one. Cheers All. Roadie.

[hue]

Hiya Grant

Don't know if i can make this one
trying to juggle things around so that i can, love to go
let you know soonest mate

Hue

ps. i will be going to ballarat though, that one i'm sure of

[DerekTheWonderFerret]

Hiya Grant

Don't know if i can make this one
trying to juggle things around so that i can, love to go
let you know soonest mate

Hue

ps. i will be going to ballarat though, that one i'm sure of

C'mon hue, commit!!!

Dawn and I will be there for as many events as we can. Really looking forward to getting back to my roots.

[hue]

C'mon hue, commit!!!

Dawn and I will be there for as many events as we can. Really looking forward to getting back to my roots.[/quote]

ouch, that does hurt Derek!

Hue

[Abaci]

Hooray. Well I can finally commit.

I'll be up early Sat morning and will stay Sat night and possibly Sunday night depending on how late we go. I have a new set of arrows to fletch tonight and I'll be all set.

See you there.
Michelle

[DerekTheWonderFerret]

Hooray. Well I can finally commit.

I'll be up early Sat morning and will stay Sat night and possibly Sunday night depending on how late we go. I have a new set of arrows to fletch tonight and I'll be all set.

See you there.
Michelle

Looking forward to seeing the new arrows. I remember your pretty ones from previous years.

[Abaci]

They won't be as exciting as some of the others because I've been a bit slack. But they'll do. Theme this time is Black Griffin.

See you all tomorrow.

[BigBenno]

one day to go, alsways look forward to this shoot, as its the only one I still shoot my longbow at.

now to the bad news, hopefully there are a lot of people coming, however we have only received 5 entries outside of club members, and this has concerned us regarding the catering for everyone, so this year the banquet will be toned down to a BBQ, this means we dont have to spend $400 on meat for a few people in case we dont get many entries. The price will be less, but the food will be plentiful, and still includes desert.

I apologise for this, but we do need entries to give us numbers to organise the meat.

Back to the good news, the castle is set up and hopefully everyone will bring their shields for the battle clout. the weather looks good (very unusual), the targets are ready, and we are looking forward to you all coming.

The TV and newspaper crews will be there as well.

the clubroom will be open from about 2pm today

see you all there
Peter


PS we have an unusually large flock of mosquito's at the moment, so it would be a good idea to bring your favorite repellant. we have been thinking of using them for the bowbird event.

[BigBenno]

well a great weekend, good time had by those who came, numbers were down but scores were not.

Lady Sam is Grand Champion again, even shooting longbow this time
with
Ben Brunton as the Junior Grand Champion again.

Thanks for all those members who put in the hard yards.

Big thanks to Scrubbull for setting up and running the Knight Shoot, it was a lot of fun. His new trailer (mega horsefloat lol) is very well set up.

Abaci's new arrows were her usual excellent work.

see you all next year
Peter

[Len]

Well done to Peter and crew for putting this event on and well done to Lady Sam ( again ! )And have to mention the afternoon tea, what a beauty !

[lil dragon lady!!!]

Hi all, hehehehe i found th site finally!!! wow it was fun at th trad shoot.... Think we all had plenty of fun,even my young bloke connor had a great time(6yrs old)....his third time shooting ever...thankx every1 4 tryin 2 give me a run for my money,,,brett had me scared for a while....good job brett,it gave me somethin to think bout n i had to try a lil harder 2 beat ya!! Thankx hue for th encouragment!! lol Yes i used a barebow recurve but its all i had n im sorry 4 that! couldnt afford 1 til this yr!!! Got too many kids to pay for!! lol (they arnt cheap ya know!) lol......but i shot longbow this yr n had a ball....thankx pete n th gang...hope next yr is just as fun n i know that ryan is going to attempt to make a trophy like th one i got th 1st yr...so to make it fair i might have to stand down as winner n let some1 else have a go!! lol......3yrs in a row is awsome.................lol

[hue]

hell no DragonLady

you won this one as you won the other two. you're the champ, the one to beat! and you did it on your own merits!
let'em take it off you babe!
are you going to the BG's clout?

Hue

[lil dragon lady!!!]

i would love 2 b able to get 2 more events,but its a bit hard when my partners wkends r mon,n tues, some1 has 2 look after th kids!! lol so im guna c bout th ballarat shoot but atm it looks slim....