What a day we had! Many thanks to the 164 archers who visited our wood in Ombersley for our first shoot of 2024. It was great to host everyone again especially as our last shoot back in October had to be cancelled due to the weather.

We were much luckier with the weather this time – despite it being very wet for what seems like forever – we had dry weather for a few days leading up to the shoot that helped dry out most of the woodland. The day of the shoot – we were even luckier. Not only did we start in sunshine, we finished in sunshine too with none of the wet stuff in between! And the temperature was mild too and added to everyone’s enjoyment.

The course consisted of 36 targets – mainly 3D’s with some faces thrown in including a very large gorilla!

It’s been long road back since the fire so it was nice to be able to provide nearly a whole course of 3D’s for you. The new clubhouse was a talking point and certainly ‘worked’ well for its first time hosting an open shoot.

A massive thank you to everyone who came. Judging by all your comments when leaving and on social media since, you all had a great day.

Everyone was very well looked after by the ladies in the kitchen (and Roy and Darren!) who offered the usual great range of breakfast sandwiches, burgers, hotpots and cake! The chilli was especially good! We did ask that you all arrived hungry and you certainly did that – we sold out of everything!

Thank you to our course layers who set up a great course and thank you to all the members who gave up their time to assist the course layers in setting up the course in the weeks leading up to the shoot – all your help is appreciated.

For the full list of results please click HERE.

Thank you again to all that visited and we hopefully see you at our next open shoot in October. Bookings for this shoot will be open from 1st July 2024.

Thanks and see you soon.

All at SVYF 🏹