252 Scheme to be Replaced on 1st April

Brand New Three Dozen Incentive

As many of you know, we run an incentive scheme called ‘The 252’. This is an award that is claimed if you score 252 or more with the first 36 arrows at the longest distance of an Imperial round.

What some of you may not know is that the score level of 252 is relevant to recurve bows, but not to other bow styles. For compound bows, 252 is too easy, for barebow it’s too hard and for longbow it’s practically impossible.

So, we are delighted to announce from the 1st April (no joke) the current 252 scheme will disappear and be replaced by the Three Dozen incentive.

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Internal League Organiser Wanted

Can You Help?

As part of a drive to make shooting at the club more diverse and engaging, we are looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working soul who would be willing to take on the role of Internal League Organiser.

The job involves devising an internal league for CMO, communicating it to the members and of course, running it.  You'll be working with Julie on the records side of things and Martin on the website and comms front.  This is an exciting opportunity to create something that can engage everybody and hopefully become part of the club's way of life.

 If you can spare the time and think that this is a project you can breathe life into, drop Martin a line by clicking here: I'M GAME, LETS TALK!

Surrey Barebow Team Win

Inter-County Friendly 26th November Result

Julie Beresford, Elisa Ball, Carl Johnson and Paul McCartney formed the Surrey Barebow team which beat Kent, Essex and Sussex at this friendly match held at Sittingbourne Community College. Andy Marshall was also representing Surrey team in the Recurve section.

In the individual Portsmouth rounds, Julie came first with a score of 524 and Elisa was third scoring 512.

British Archery Postal League

New Frostbite and Portsmouth Competitions

We have now been entered into the British Archery Postal League which runs a Frostbite and a Portsmouth tournament. The matches will take place once a month from now until next April and we will flag the dates on the events calendar. This is in addition to the usual Surrey County Frostbite Postal League which is also under way.

The teams vary each month, based upon the highest scores shot in that particular match. Success in postal leagues relies upon getting a really good turnout for the matches and for everybody to submit their score sheets whether you are happy with your score or not. For example if nine recurve archers shoot and one of those doesn't submit a score because it's lower than usual, it could drop all three teams overall scores significantly.

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CMO Archers Picked for Surrey Team

Inter-County Friendly 26th November

Five of our archers have been selected to represent Surrey County in the forthcoming Inter-Counties friendly match on the 26th November.

Julie Beresford, Elisa Ball, Carl Johnson and Paul McCartney will form the whole of the Surrey Barebow team while Andy Marshall has been picked to join the Recurve team.

The match will be held on Saturday 26th November and hosted by Kent County. Good luck Surrey!

Sign Up for Halloween Fun

Click to Attend our Halloween Fun Shoot by Thursday 27th

On Saturday 29th October we are holding our annual Halloween Fun Shoot from 1pm.

There will be prizes, ridiculous random scoring, food and fun. This event is barebow to make it even more challenging so please leave your sights and stabilisers in your bag.

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Club Championships 2016 Results

It was a perfect day for the Club Championships this year with beautiful weather, a good attendance, some great scoring and superb food and chat afterwards.

Check out the winners and runners up below. Scores are posted on the usual scores section of the website.

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CMO - Warlingham - Atkins Friendly 3rd July

On the first Sunday of July each year we join Atkins Archers at Warlingham for this 3-way friendly.

This year the round was an American, probably because the 4th July Independence Day was on the following day. Or maybe Warlingham were playing their Trump card (yes that was an attempt at a joke). An American round is 30 arrows at 60, 50 and 40 yards or two pints of Budweiser and a Manhattan if you're at a bar (another attempt, another fail).

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CMO - Reigate - Malden 3-Way Friendly 2016

It's fair to say that this fixture ended up being a very topsy-turvy day all in all.

CMO Bowmen hosted this three-way friendly match between us and Reigate Priory Bowmen as holders of the trophy which we won at Malden last year. With me so far? Unfortunately Malden found themselves a bit light of archers and so the three-way became two.

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Lost Arrow Procedure

There have been some additions to our rules and procedures designed to minimise lost arrows and make sure that proper reporting takes place.

Rules concerning your arrows are:

• No all-carbon arrows are permitted at the field. Wooden, aluminium or aluminium-carbon only
• Arrows must be identified as yours with your name or initials clearly marked on them
• You must count how many arrows you are shooting at the start and end of each session
• Fletching colour scheme must be the same for all your arrows that are shot together in a session

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