Kings Forest Bowmen are located a few miles away from Bury St Edmunds, so we travelled down on the Friday evening and stayed over at a very nice camp site about twenty minutes away from the shoot. The campsite had the cleanest toilet block I’ve ever seen on a campsite and the facilities were first class! The campsite was called The Dell and I can highly recommend it.
We arrived at the shoot early on Saturday morning not quite sure what to expect. We got a great welcome from the guys at Kings Forest as well as from the President of the EFAA when we were given our membership cards. This was a two day shoot and we would be shooting a marked 3d preceision round and a marked 3d field round, marked meaning the distance to the target are marked. This is the main difference between EFAA and NFAS, although the EFAA do shoot some unmarked rounds. The second thing I noticed that is different is that everyone entering an EFAA shoot undergoes a bow inspection, another good idea and something that I agree with.
The courses are 28 targets and on the marked 3d precision round you take two arrows at every target. An inner kill scoring 10 points, a kill scoring 8 points and a wound scoring 5 points. The same course is shot from different pegs for the marked 3d field round and is similary in format to an NFAS big game round.
Since the distances were marked, I decided to have a play around with gap shooting. I was surprised at the results. Once I had my point of aim I could pretty much work out where I needed to be aiming, of course knowing the distance to the target helps with this immensly.
I had a really good weekend and a very good first impression of the EFAA. Both myself and Kay came away with second places which I was really happy with, and after my initial success with gap shooting I will be looking forward to my next marked distance shoot with the EFAA. I also want to spend some time on a marked practice range so I can get more precise gape for a wider range of distances.
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