Types of Shoot

Game Round (Also called Big Game Round or Animal Round).

This is the round that is most commonly shot at D.A.C.

 The target faces are pictures of animals that have two zones  - a ‘wound’ and a ‘kill’ – marked on them. Each target face has three pegs set at different distances away from it. These distances are never measured, and depending on the size of the target can be anything from five yards to fifty yards away.  The archer shoots from these pegs, standing behind the peg with one foot touching it. Only one arrow is shot from each peg, and once a score is made no further shots are taken.

For example, if the archer scores a wound or a kill from the first peg, then no shots are taken from the second and third pegs. The first peg shot from is always the one furthest away. 

The scoring is as follows: 

Peg 1               Kill:            20.                   Wound:           16

Peg 2               Kill:            14                    Wound:           10

Peg 3               Kill:              8                    Wound:             4

Woodsman’s Round

  This is the same as the Game Round except that the archer keeps shooting until a kill is scored.

Each wound:            5

Kill at Peg 1: 30

Kill at Peg 2: 20

Kill at Peg 3: 10

‘Spotting’:

Both these rounds require ‘spotters’ to tell the archer when he/she has scored.

Spotters should only indicate whether the archer has scored or not, and shouldn’t give guidance such as ‘A bit to the left!’

More importantly, spotters should choose their position with three points in mind in the following order of importance: 

1.                  Personal safety.

2.                  Ability to see where ‘shorts’ and ‘overshoots’ land.

3.                  Ability to see the target face.

Clout Shooting.

This is usually shot over a large level area of grassland and is one of the most traditional and challenging shoots in archery. 

The target is set up anything up to 180 yards from the archers. Commonly 165 meters is shot for men, 125 for women.

 This target is a flag or a pole that should be highly visible. (The old English word for  ‘cloth’ – a flag - is ‘clout’, hence the name of this type of shoot.). 

A rope is fastened to the flagpole and is walked around to describe a circle in order to score the arrows. The rope can be up to 7 yards long, making a target area of 14 yards across.

Scoring:

The rope is marked at 5 equal distances, and the arrows are scored at 5 points for the inner ‘circle’ and scores decrease to 1 point in the outermost ‘circle’. 

Last Updated: 12 April 2004