IFAA Practice

Thirty nine archers, including eight new shooters hit the IFAA range on Sunday to get in some much needed practice leading into the Branch IFAA competition on the 5th and 6th of November.
The Hunter, Animal and Field ranges are 14 target ranges which in competition are simply shot twice to make up the required 28 targets. Scores were ok but nothing brilliant was posted by the big guns.
Jodi Dolbel showed good form and really relished in the marked distance round showing what a natural IFAA shooter she will become leading up to the big tournaments put down for the first half of next year. Jodi's husband Stuart was almost regretting upgrading Jodi's equipment after 20 targets but managed a draw with her after she had some minor sighting problems on the 70 yard walk up.
Steve Jaeger and John Clark had a close tussled for the open grade honoros with John Clark just edging Steve out after a close finish.
Ken Thompson shot well and posted a good win in the compound barebow division with Collin Hall showing he has carried his recent good form in ABA into the IFAA round edging out the long time favorite Phillip Porter at the post.

Scores: 14 Targets Only

Shelly Abra Womens Traditional 108

Jodi Dolbel Womens Open 237

Karen Hudson Womens Compound 128

Norma Culley Women Bowhunter Limited 107

Darryl Hudson Mens Traditional 115
Robert Hassan Mens Traditional 103
Steve Taylor Mens Traditional 91
Michael Patrick Mens Traditional 72
Peter Stubs Mens Traditional 72

John Clark Mens Open 253
Steve Jaeger Mens Open 246
Sam Bates Mens Open 230

Ken Thompson Mens Compound 209
Collin Hall Mens Compound 191
Philip Porter Mens Compound 188
Ken Hill Mens Compound 142

Stuart Dolbel Mens Bowhunter Limited 237
Greg Donovan Mens Bowhunter Limited 212
Rob Porter Mens Bowhunter Limited 191
Gerry Culley Mens Bowhunter Limited 169

Cassie Taylor Cub Girl Traditional 77
Amy Stubbs Cub Girl Traditional 56
Jackelyn Patrick Cub Girl Traditional 38

Emelia Dolbel Cub Girl Compound 117
Sophie Donovan Cub Girl Compound 67

Tom Hassan Cub Boy Traditional 60
Andrew Taylor Cub Boy Traditional 51
Joe Hassan Cub Boy Traditional 51
Gerard Stubs Cub Boy Traditional 50
Matt Hassan Cub Boy Traditional 30

Sebastian Donovan Cub Boy Open 235

Shane Thompson Cub Boy Olympic 149

Christopher Patrick Cub Boy Compound 98

Josh Dolbel Boy Junior Open 233
Cameron Hill Boy Junior Open 85

Wade Hudson Boy Junior Compound 193
Shaun Boyd-McCaw Boy Junior Compound 189

Keegan Patrick Boy Junior Compound 89
Ben Stubs Boy Junior Compound 89

2004 / 05 Hunting Scores

The past 12 months saw an increase in club hunting with a few new comers giving the old hands some competition, alas the master hunter himself rose to the occassion and beat off the competition, best he be carefull this season though.













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3 Arrow Round To Start New Score Year

The first shoot for the 2005 / 06 scoring year took place this weekend with a small field hitting the range for a 3 arrow all count, 20 / 15 / 10.

The "Outback" range was as challenging as ever with many of the participants suffering "big shoot hangovers" after the state ABA titles a week ago. John Clark and Steve Jaeger shot well to tie the mens open whislt Wade Hudson and Josh Dolbel maintained the blistering form of recent weeks in the boys junior ranks. Jodi Dolbel also shot well narrowly missing the club record for her division by 5 points.
The windy conditions made the longer targets testing but some good scores came in by the end of the round.

There is only one more shoot before the Namoi club hosts the Branch E IFAA titles on the 5th and 6th of November.

Scores:
Jodi Dolbel Womens Open 860
Cassie Neuendorf Womens Open 675

Karen Hudson Womens Compound 350
Helen Woodward Womens Compound 330

Jill Porter Women Bowhunter Limited 575
Norma Culley Women Bowhunter Limited 435

Darryl Hudson Mens Traditional 475

John Clark Mens Open 1105
Steve Jaeger Mens Open 1105
Ben Ireland Mens Open 1070
Shane Donovan Mens Open 665

Philip Porter Mens Compound 810
Ken Thompson Mens Compound 805
Steve Woodward Mens Compound 455

Stuart Dolbel Mens Bowhunter Limited 1000
Greg Donovan Mens Bowhunter Limited 900
Collin Hall Mens Bowhunter Limited 825
Scott Porter Mens Bowhunter Limited 805
Gerry Culley Mens Bowhunter Limited 750
Lloyd Jauja Mens Bowhunter Limited 290

Sophie Donovan Cub Girl Compound 370
Emelia Dolbel Cub Girl Compound 340

Krystal Jauja Cub Boy Traditional 205

Mathew Jauja Cub Boy Open 615

Shane Thompson Cub Boy Olympic 555

Dan Morris Boy Junior Traditional 455

Josh Dolbel Boy Junior Open 1080
Jamie Thompson Boy Junior Open 780

Sebastian Donovan Boy Junior Open 715

Wade Hudson Boy Junior Compound 975
Shaun Boyd-McCaw Boy Junior Compound 730
Damian Woodward Boy Junior Compound 360

NSW State ABA Results

Namoi Valley Archers sent one of the largest teams to the state titles in over 10years and were not dissapointed in the results, bringing home 9 first, 8 seconds and 2 thirds, making 18 of the 23 NVA members podium finishers.

The course was tough with the Avon club making good use of the forest and gully terrian in the foothills of the local mountains.

Ben Ireland took out the highest overall score for the seniors and Josh Dolbel the highest for the Juniors after shooting a PB two days in a row.




CUB GIRLS RECURVE D GRADE
1 Hartcher Ella 232 70 170 160 632
2 Jaeger Meg 158 66 106 102 432
3 Morrissey Tiarne 90 40 38 88 256
CUB GIRLS COMPOUND D GRADE
1 Stiles Jodie 288 268 282 286 1124
2 Roper Eden 280 232 226 124 862
3 Salter Laura 156 136 210 112 614
4 Buckingham Georgia 70 32 66 0 168
CUB BOYS FREESTYLE LTD RECURVE FLT 2
1 Thompson Shane 238 218 250 218 924
CUB BOYS FREESTYLE LTD COMPOUND FLT 2
1 Taylor Lee 366 338 370 284 1358
CUB BOYS RECURVE D GRADE
1 Sharpe Dale 176 226 240 76 718
2 Wells Tim 60 50 66 16 192
CUB BOYS RECURVE B GRADE
1 Sherwood Michael 302 276 318 274 1170
2 Wells Matthew 134 136 218 116 604
CUB BOYS COMPOUND D GRADE
1 Young Shaun 136 150 202 136 624
2 Taylor Brendan 144 110 156 158 568
CUB BOYS COMPOUND C GRADE
1 Morrissey Jarrod 312 216 302 258 1088
CUB BOYS COMPOUND B GRADE
1 Salter Brendon 322 284 356 282 1244
CUB BOYS COMPOUND ADVANCED GRADE
1 Roberts Timothy F 380 338 386 350 1454
JNR GIRLS RECURVE D GRADE
1 Dein Shannon 206 68 146 98 518

JNR GIRLS COMPOUND D GRADE
1 Gorton Kimberley 264 216 274 186 940
2 Hartcher Aimee 238 210 206 124 778
3 Buckingham Jodi 244 124 234 122 724
JNR GIRLS COMPOUND B GRADE
1 Brear Ella 206 158 230 160 754
2 Woodward Stacey 180 70 216 126 592
JNR BOYS BOWHUNTER LIMITED FLT 2
1 Thompson Jamie 314 252 316 366 1248
2 Nolan Mitchell 308 246 268 300 1122
3 Hanrahan Ben 230 158 206 158 752
JNR BOYS FREESTYLE LIMITED RECURVE FLT 2
1 Roberts Jonathan F 248 294 306 288 1136
JNR BOYS BOWHUNTER UNLIMITED FLT 2
1 Davis Toby F 350 306 360 316 1332
2 Neale Christopher 332 304 320 336 1292
3 Young Jesse 296 212 340 248 1096
JNR BOYS BOWHUNTER UNLIMITED FLT 1
1 Davis Louis F 380 370 390 368 1508
JNR BOYS FREESTYLE UNLIMITED FLT 2
1 Dolbel Josh 372 364 390 384 1510
2 Cummins Daniel 380 370 362 370 1482
3 Williams Ben 350 350 378 356 1434
JNR BOYS FREESTYLE UNLIMITED FLT 1
1 Franklin David ug 372 234 366 276 1248
JNR BOYS COMPOUND C GRADE
1 Woodward Damien 210 188 286 196 880
JNR BOYS COMPOUND B GRADE
1 Salter Timothy 338 300 362 348 1348
2 Stephenson Brandon 314 234 306 274 1128
3 Avdalas Michael 272 290 284 196 1042
4 Schipp Roy 194 118 238 220 770
5 Kirby Scott 150 72 236 170 628
JNR BOYS COMPOUND A GRADE
1 Brear Mark 350 226 322 270 1168
2 Thompson Dean 306 246 286 284 1122

JNR BOYS COMPOUND ADVANCED GRADE
1 Roberts Daniel F 378 360 368 364 1470
2 Hudson Wade 370 350 376 362 1458
3 Pryce Dane 376 330 358 292 1356
LADIES BOWHUNTER LIMITED FLT 2
1 Buckingham Lisa 366 306 332 318 1322
2 Derrick Reyna 328 350 328 280 1286
3 Coote Vera 326 310 0 0 636
4 Hardy Rebecca 240 68 244 70 622
LADIES FREESTYLE LIMITED RECURVE FLIGHT 2
1 Gorton Wendy 252 216 266 170 904
LADIES FREESTYLE LIMITED COMPOUND FLT 2
1 Stephenson Judy 356 248 322 254 1180
2 Hardy Irene 160 52 146 72 430
LADIES BOWHUNTER UNLIMITED FLT 2
1 Neuendorf Cassie 294 220 338 324 1176
2 Finn Leonore F 292 264 350 232 1138
3 Bond Kandie 302 232 334 254 1122
LADIES FREESTYLE UNLIMITED FLT 2
1 Wagner Linda 344 328 366 336 1374
2 Fairhall Lynne 352 338 360 296 1346
3 Otten Mariette - F 302 260 312 252 1126
4 O'Halloran Annette - F 184 188 252 68 692
LADIES RECURVE D GRADE
1 Taylor Gail 172 90 226 122 610
LADIES COMPOUND D GRADE
1 Salter Noeline 260 144 328 240 972
2 Hudson Karen 206 154 214 144 718
3 Woodward Helen 172 18 114 68 372
MENS BOWHUNTER LIMITED FLT 2
1 Dolbel Stuart 366 314 378 332 1390
2 Hardy Cliff 368 316 346 320 1350
3 Taylor Robert 314 274 332 268 1188
4 Hardy Max 272 298 310 284 1164
5 Gorton Malcolm 328 224 342 262 1156
6 McCarthy John 272 200 270 206 948
7 Hardy Malcolm 292 176 346 0 814
MENS BOWHUNTER LIMITED FLT 1
1 Franklin Peter ug 348 312 304 254 1218

MENS FREESTYLE LIMITED RECURVE FLT 2
1 Moad Rod - F 310 244 318 316 1188
2 McCarthy Bill 264 218 290 166 938
MENS FREESTYLE LIMITED RECURVE FLT 1
1 Fairhall Tynan 340 312 340 338 1330
MENS FREESTYLE LIMITED COMPOUND FLT 1
1 Jaeger Steve 376 388 388 390 1542
2 Buckingham David 376 340 388 376 1480
MENS BOWHUNTER UNLIMITED FLT 2
1 Lane Bradley F 380 382 372 362 1496
2 Marshall Terry 368 362 360 366 1456
3 Richer Des 346 320 364 354 1384
4 Smith Jason 366 316 348 314 1344
5 Taylor Lindsay 360 324 356 298 1338
6 Wells Fenn 314 298 332 354 1298
7 Dein Daniel 336 296 328 306 1266
8 Murch James 320 286 310 252 1168
MENS BOWHUNTER UNLIMITED FLT 1
1 Hartcher Tony 386 394 382 392 1554
2 Finn John F 378 368 392 388 1526
3 Derrick Keith 384 392 386 350 1512
4 Gillian Stephen 374 360 380 380 1494
5 Nichols Gary 338 372 380 362 1452
6 Bonanno Michael Ug 358 318 376 378 1430
MENS FREESTYLE UNLIMITED FLT 2
1 Cobot Andrew F 376 356 388 392 1512
2 Bates Sam 380 368 372 388 1508
3 Wall Greg 374 366 372 332 1444
4 Hotchin Rob - F 380 340 374 346 1440
5 Apps Cecil 378 318 378 362 1436
6 Freeman Glen 348 340 370 278 1336
MENS FREESTYLE UNLIMITED FLT 1
1 Ireland Ben 382 394 390 392 1558
2 Clebsch Eddie 376 390 386 390 1542
3 Tilbrook Adam 382 342 386 394 1504
4 Clark John 374 362 382 384 1502
5 Kemp Brad ug 370 358 358 344 1430
MENS RECURVE C GRADE
1 Sherwood Bruce 324 206 262 216 1008
2 Hudson Darrell 272 166 278 176 892

MENS RECURVE B GRADE
1 Peck Karl 244 212 274 206 936
MENS COMPOUND D GRADE
1 Young Tony 228 184 202 142 756
2 Stiles John 232 72 254 172 730
3 Morrissey David 162 124 200 130 616
MENS COMPOUND C GRADE
1 Smith Ken 254 220 294 256 1024
2 McDermott Ron 234 230 288 244 996
3 Cook Justin 256 192 244 254 946
4 Heusz Stephen 246 222 280 176 924
5 Woodward Stephen 216 190 258 190 854
6 Schipp Kevin 272 180 246 134 832
7 Greenaway Michael 200 164 262 140 766
MENS COMPOUND B GRADE
1 Lucas Keith 302 362 318 306 1288
2 Salter Robert 310 310 324 268 1212
3 Pryce Geoff 310 218 308 326 1162
4 Nolan Matthew 286 164 294 254 998
5 Courtney Paul 240 184 260 194 878
6 Maher Les 278 156 274 166 874
7 Kropp Chris 266 172 240 182 860
8 Knez Lou 246 202 268 68 784
MENS COMPOUND A GRADE
1 Mitchell Grahame 304 314 360 298 1276
2 Scott Ron 342 292 354 284 1272
3 Brear Malcolm 338 292 322 302 1254
4 Thompson Ken 318 296 344 294 1252
5 Everingham Mark 348 260 310 252 1170
6 Smith Peter 312 270 318 242 1142
7 Kozlowski Gary 330 254 296 238 1118
MENS COMPOUND MASTERS GRADE
1 Smith Bob 334 320 328 274 1256
2 Roberts Kevin F 298 262 320 282 1162

Josh Takes First Trophy Goat

After a weekend at Glouster Tuesday looked like a good day to relax, so why not get a quick hunt in. Josh my 15year old son, Sam another you fellow from the club, and I left around 5.30am, a little late now the sun is getting up earlier, and headed to my favourite spot on the bottom of the Liverpool Plains. Arriving around 6.30am, the Suzuki didnt miss a beat, we kitted up and made the 4WD treck up the hills to the top ridge. It was one of the first times we had arrived at the top and not been able to see a single goat on the morning side of the ridge, I felt not a promising start. We made away along the southern ridge where I spotted a small mob milling around the top of a saddle, Sam had come across the peak not far behind me so I gave him the stalk, poor bugger hasnt shot a thing in about 2 years. After a brilliant stalk to within 15mtrs with minimal cover I watched as he positioned himself for the shot, but what was this, a Kangaroo was heading down the ridge straight towards Sam, it pulled up between the goats and Sam, looked his way, shook its head and headed off back down the hill without a clue of what was about to happen to the goats. Sam drew back and nailed his first goat, the others ran only a few metres before stopping to see what was going on with their friend, bad move, the next arrow failed to find it's mark, this steep rocky terrian can sort the best of them out. Sam loaded up again to nail another, two goats in less than five minutes and loading up for a third, but it wasnt to be.



Josh had made his way to my viewing platform at the later stages of the stalk and we both enjoyed the action taking place 100mtrs below us, after the goats moved on we made our way down to Sam, Josh had a shot at a stragler, wouned it and then made his way further down the hill and across the valley to finish it off.
I stalked down the hill towards where the goats had fled the second time only to find they had moved further around the hill and would soon be out of site, between me nad my knee's I thought it was just too early in the day to go rock hopping for a couple of nanny goats. I had a quick look around and headed back to take a picture of Sams goats. As I passed over a nob I saw a couple of horns through the long grass, I fell to my knees and crawled through verigated thistles and stinging nettles to the edge to find the mob Sam had just thinned out had doubled back and was walking straight to me. I drew back while still kneeling,lined the pins and peep up and waited about 5 seconds then there they were walking towards me at about five metres, I took the largest thinking it may have been a small billy, the titanium tri blade, a head I was trialing for the guys at Archery Supplies in Canberra, passed straight through, long ways, piecing the throat / chest area and exiting near the back hip before continuing on its way to the bottom of the valley, wont see that arrow again. I saw the arrow dissappear in the chest and the goat, it didnt make a noise, it just ran, and left me standing there scratching my head wondering how something can run after getting tweny eight inchs of arrow with 1.5 inchs of broadhead put throught it, damn these goats around here are tough. I finished it off and was dissapointed to find it was a nanny, a couple of pics later and we were all together and back up the ridge to find something else.

We glassed the north ridge and spotted a couple of billies feeding around a few low bushes, it was Josh's stalk as he had only dispatched a nanny through the morning, we all got down to around 80mtrs before working out what the swirly wind was going to do and what route in had the best cover, Josh stalked in to around 40mtrs before a nanny caught a wiff of him, she just stood and snorted for what seemed like an eternity, we called Josh back and found another path in, 20minutes later he was in range and the mob had gathered, there was maybe 6 goats all well over 30", and a large number, 20+, betweem 20" and 30". This was looking much more interesting. With a nobby rock between Josh and the goats all he could do was wait for the mob to move around a little before he could get a shot away. After what Josh said felt like forever he was ready to take a shot, Sam nor I could see what he was aiming at, away the arrow flew, we heard the sound of arrow versus rocks and assumed the worse, looking back towards Josh up the hill he also looked a little dissapointed as he loaded another arrow and slammed it low and back on a 20"+ billy, the mob fled leaving little to no chance for Sam or I to clean up the dregs, I shot an arrow but missed a trailing billy by a foot or two, Sam ran off after the mob and I went to look for my arrow, I looked back up the hill towards Josh to see him indicating how big the goats were, I nodded and continued looking for my arrow, something caught the corner of my eye, I looked back towards Josh, he was jumping around, punching the air, then done the how wide the horns were signal again, pointed at himself and punched the air again, maybe that first arrow had hit more than rocks. I made my way up the hill to find Josh with the biggest grin I have think I've ever seen on him, his first arrow had passed through a nice 31" billy, clean through the heart killing it within metres of where he had hit it. Josh had claimed his biggest goat yet (and smiled for the entire trip home). We removed the trophy and I said to Josh, you killed it, you carry it, as I looked up the steep hill we needed to scale to get back to the car.
All in all a great day, at a great spot.


Josh's 97 6/8 point billy