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abendgulesMadam NoName has absented herself the past couple of early mornings, but returned for mid-morning breakfasts to enjoy with Robert.
Strings are still the toy of choice: they are chomped a short distance from their free ends, and then carried firmly and determinedly to a safe place under the dining table to be eviscerated, toyed with and generally treated like prey.
Some notices survived the weekend and the slashing rain on Monday. I may replace a few this weekend.
I've successfully joined the London Archers, and am hoping to start shooting as soon as I have a hard case for my bow and arrows to carry on the Tube. There's still light til about 7-7.30pm, so if I arrive at 6pm I can get in an hour or so at Kensington Palace grounds.
I've enjoyed visiting the past couple of weeks, to watch a clout shoot, and part of the club championships. Very nostalgic!
Continuing inquiries about taking the GNAS 'Leaders' course. Unfortunately, it looks like a shameless moneyspinner for GNAS, for the sake of a time-limited accreditation (renewable every 3 years, for a price) to satisfy CYA needs of scout camps and other sites that have ranges. Why it would take 4 days to teach good sportsmanship and the basics of shooting is beyond me - I could do it in a saturday morning and still have time for coffee.
Hoping they have a grandfather clause for experienced coaches, but seems very unlikely.
For thems in Thamesreach who might want to learn to shoot, even if they don't have kit, there is this (slightly pricey but no strings attached) option: 2020 archery.
You can book sessions for groups - in fact, that's exactly what they want you to do. It's a bit steeper cost than some clubs might offer, but can't complain about the location, or the professional attitiude. Correspondence has been answered promptly and graciously.
Strings are still the toy of choice: they are chomped a short distance from their free ends, and then carried firmly and determinedly to a safe place under the dining table to be eviscerated, toyed with and generally treated like prey.
Some notices survived the weekend and the slashing rain on Monday. I may replace a few this weekend.
I've successfully joined the London Archers, and am hoping to start shooting as soon as I have a hard case for my bow and arrows to carry on the Tube. There's still light til about 7-7.30pm, so if I arrive at 6pm I can get in an hour or so at Kensington Palace grounds.
I've enjoyed visiting the past couple of weeks, to watch a clout shoot, and part of the club championships. Very nostalgic!
Continuing inquiries about taking the GNAS 'Leaders' course. Unfortunately, it looks like a shameless moneyspinner for GNAS, for the sake of a time-limited accreditation (renewable every 3 years, for a price) to satisfy CYA needs of scout camps and other sites that have ranges. Why it would take 4 days to teach good sportsmanship and the basics of shooting is beyond me - I could do it in a saturday morning and still have time for coffee.
Hoping they have a grandfather clause for experienced coaches, but seems very unlikely.
For thems in Thamesreach who might want to learn to shoot, even if they don't have kit, there is this (slightly pricey but no strings attached) option: 2020 archery.
You can book sessions for groups - in fact, that's exactly what they want you to do. It's a bit steeper cost than some clubs might offer, but can't complain about the location, or the professional attitiude. Correspondence has been answered promptly and graciously.
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Date: 2009-09-18 02:44 am (UTC)>> Unfortunately, it looks like a shameless moneyspinner for GNAS,
>> for the sake of a time-limited accreditation (renewable every 3
>> years, for a price) to satisfy CYA needs of scout camps
>> and other sites that have ranges.
Yup! That's what I thought about that particular course was when I looked into doing it, however briefly, last spring.
Thank goodness I found a clay-pigeon range south of Bath that were cool about pay-&-play archery. AFAIK their insurer took the viewpoint that once you had members of the public pitching up to shoot 12-bores and even occasionally .22"rf, a bit of arrow-twanging was a zero-cost option.
It was only a shame that I couldn't get any WD archer to shoot with me. I just had to shoot with a Father-Son pair of Hungarians(?), who were practising for "tree-stand ambush" bow-hunting on Canadian bears. Damn, it makes rifle-hunting stags in Scotlandshire seem for mealy-mouthed wooses!