Looks like my first club, the Priory Bowmen in StOsyth (Essex) 
I think it's worth going along and trying it out. The beginners course can only be a good step and you'll find there pay be members with old gear they want to sell to new recuits
Re classifications, the last one I got when i did target (that was a while ago now) was a little green badge with bowman written on it
I shot recurve (full tack) at the time. I've never taken much notice of scores and classes, as has been observed, a good day is when you have had fun and come back with most of the arrows you went out with! Though I did once come back with more arrows than I started with - I lost a couple at a previous shoot at that club and they had found and saved them!
The only time I went to a field shoot in Scotland was when teh EFAA (well IFAA) World and European Champs (WEFAC) were near Stirling in 2003 (or 2002?). I Had been meaning to go to a national champ for years but never got around to it, then I go along to the bloody worlds instead!
Blooming good fun but hard work with five consective days of shooting up and down the hillside! That time I was shooting Compound limited (compound with fixed 5 pin sight and finger release).
I think it's worth going along and trying it out. The beginners course can only be a good step and you'll find there pay be members with old gear they want to sell to new recuits
Re classifications, the last one I got when i did target (that was a while ago now) was a little green badge with bowman written on it
I shot recurve (full tack) at the time. I've never taken much notice of scores and classes, as has been observed, a good day is when you have had fun and come back with most of the arrows you went out with! Though I did once come back with more arrows than I started with - I lost a couple at a previous shoot at that club and they had found and saved them! The only time I went to a field shoot in Scotland was when teh EFAA (well IFAA) World and European Champs (WEFAC) were near Stirling in 2003 (or 2002?). I Had been meaning to go to a national champ for years but never got around to it, then I go along to the bloody worlds instead!
Blooming good fun but hard work with five consective days of shooting up and down the hillside! That time I was shooting Compound limited (compound with fixed 5 pin sight and finger release).
