August 5, 2018 6:54 pm
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3DAAA Benchmark Shootout The 2018 Benchmark shoot started early for Grant Elsley, Jamie Bradshaw, Robbie Vayro, Brett Pirlo and Greg Scott setting the ranges and getting the venue sorted. The meet and greet on Friday night with Pizza at the Saloon was a great event. But the debate still rages on about using Banana as a filling on a pizza....
July 21, 2018 6:47 pm
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3DAAA Queensland State Titles What a weekend we had at our shoot. Everything about the weekend – the ranges, the fabulous food and of course all of the awesome people that braved the cooler weather to come out and shoot and also the people that didn’t shoot and volunteered their time to help out. The guys set some very challenging...
July 15, 2018 6:51 pm
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3DAAA NSW State Series The weekend of the 14th and 15th July 2018 will be remembered for years to come, officially Dubbo recorded it’s coldest ever day with -5.8C, the first ever sanctioned shoot for Dubbo 3D Archers and the first Castlereagh 3D Championship, hosted in Mendooran, NSW. The weekend saw 91 shooters come to Mendooran for a winter shoot...
July 1, 2018 6:36 pm
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3DAAA Queensland State Series We welcomed 98 competitors to our club for the shoot. The usual cool brisk morning with a warm gas heater and open fires at our newly renovated undercover area. 5 ranges were open making for a fairly smooth shoot and most seemed to enjoy the ranges. Canteen was very consistent with hungry competitors for most of...
June 25, 2018 6:27 pm
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3DAAA Victorian State Series The time came round for the second 3DAAA event to be run at Diamond Valley Archers Inc. for 2018. This also gives the course setters a chance to review the layout and the grounds from running our first event in summer to now planning to manage the ranges in now winter. Trees and foliage change, the...
June 10, 2018 6:32 pm
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3DAAA State of Origin Saturday started off with a surprisingly beautiful morning with no forecast of torrential rain unlike last year, much too everyone’s relief. Shooters set off to shoot ranges in high spirits, with a major difference in the use of land across the road, so made things a little bit more interesting. With the finish of shooting and...
May 20, 2018 6:21 pm
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3DAAA NSW State Series Thursday, still two days to go, and already the camper vans started rolling in. By Friday afternoon the club grounds were already packed. After having low numbers the previous year, things were looking much more promising this year. The new committee, especially newly elected President Michael McRae, had spent the last few months cleaning, painting and...
May 6, 2018 6:19 pm
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3DAAA Queensland State Series Another Ipswich Field Archery Club shoot is done and dusted for the year. The weather was very kind to us with glorious sunshine on both days. The first QLD 3DAAA Sanctioned shoot of the year was on the 5th and 6th May 2018. We had a total of 105 competitors from NSW and QLD who travelled to...
April 8, 2018 6:15 pm
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3DAAA NSW State Series Lake Glenbawn Field Archers’ (LGFA) annual sanctioned shoot was held on the weekend of April 7 and 8, 2018. A total of 82 archers came from near and far to compete in the event which was held at Camp Kurra-Keith within the Lake Glenbawn recreation area. This turn-out was rather impressive considering many hunters were busy...
March 18, 2018 6:12 pm
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3DAAA Victorian State Series Great weekend of 3D – Victorian Weather at its best from one day with temp in the 30 plus / sun glare and heat to the next cloudy and overcast with rain and wind Day one saw some challenging shots across the three ranges, from the spotted leopard shot from the shadows of trees into open...