3DAAA NSW State Series

The 20^th Anniversary of the Moonan Flat 3D Classic was held over the long weekend of the 29^th and 30^th of  September 2018, Proudly sponsored by the Victoria Hotel Moonan Flat and Klosters Hamilton.

108 shooters and their families turned up for the event bringing with them a slight drizzle of rain which the farmers were pleased with.

As Saturday morning dawned the drizzling rain continued as shooters started to head out to 5 testing ranges. Little did they know that Grant and the other range setters had a few surprises in store for them.

One such shot was the rising boar on D range which was shot down hill, through a tunnel cut through a peppercorn tree.

Another was the croc on A range shooting down hill off a ledge leaving nothing to pick distance off, this certainly made a few scratch their heads and there wasn’t many tens shot on this target , however there were quite a few misses.

Saturday afternoon saw Brad Wilkinson finishing the day with the highest score 289 which was quite a effort considering the ranges in place.Then it was time for the running of the Top Ten sponsored by Klosters,Congratulations went to Dustyn Oloman who eventuated the winner.

All top ten competitors had 1 arrow closest to the centre for $100 prize money up for grabs Thanx to Klosters, this was won by Joanne Bogie.

Then the customary dip in the freezing Moonan River was to come, just lucky there was a bit of water in the river or it could have been a bit rocky, and so entered Dustyn and Joanne. Dustyn stripping down to his jocks much to the amusement of the crowd, but Joanne was a bit more conservative leaving her clothes on.

A mentoring talk followed the Top Ten for those who wanted to listen to Greg Scott, Dustyn Oloman and Grant Elsley.

On Sunday as the sun started to rise over the mountains the archers started to head out. Josh Shone (MBR) managed to finish Sunday with a perfect round of 200 which was an amazing effort.

With a great weekend coming to a end there were still a surprise to come at Presentation with Cessnock Archers acknowledging the 3 archers who have shot all 20 Moonan Flat shoots, Jock Thompson , Simon Gallen and Mark Elliot.

Grant Elsley was surprised to be acknowledged for being the only Cessnock Archers member who has attended all 20 years, Grant didn’t always shoot this event but he was always hard at work behind the scenes running the event with setting ranges to score recording, our club cannot thank him enough for all the hard work he does behind the scenes.

Senior Winner for the weekend was James Bush with a score of 479

Junior Winner for the weekend was Ethan Wilkinson with a score of 461

100’s -James Bush

200’s – Josh Shone

A huge thank you to our amazing land owners without them the event would not happen, and with 20 years of support some beautiful hand made trophies were handed out to them, the Garland Family, the Collison Family, the Haynes family and the Rodeo committee, thanx to Daniel Ross.

Thank you to our Major sponsors, The Victoria Hotel Moonan Flat and Klosters Hamilton.

Thank you to the Upper hunter Shire Council for ensuring the camp grounds were clean and extra bins were out for our camper, and for the donation to help out our club for the shoot.

Thank you to our other sponsors;

Ten Zone Archery, Bohning, Lakes Disposals, Abbey Archery, Hair by Ali, Bunnings

To all the Archers and their families that attended thank you, without your support there would be no shoot.

Hope to see you all next year for the 21^st Moonan Flat 3D Classic

3DAAA Queensland State Series

The Gladstone Field Archer’s event was held on 22^nd to 23^rd of September 2018.

There were   62 registered competitors,  plus associated visitors / family.

We had people attend from all areas of QLD and NSW,  so we thank  everyone who made the journey to our club, as we know it is a fair distance to travel.

The weather was great for shooting, and we had set up 3 x 10 target ranges on Saturday and 2 x 10 target ranges on Sunday.  Everyone enjoyed the ranges which had varying degree’s of difficulty  over the different terrain we have at our club. While there were no 100’s awarded a lot of shooters came very close.

We had bought 8 new targets from Toowoomba archery supplies,  these were the ones that were recently approved by 3DAAA,  initial reviews have seen them hold up well over the weekend shoot without any significant damage,  They came with base plates so they are free standing and are well worth looking into if your club needs some additional targets, and they are Australian made.

We were able to fire up the pizza oven on Saturday night for everyone to have wood fired pizza’s, and  it was great to see everyone enjoying the clubhouse.

Saturday night saw a novelty event put on  with knife and axe throwing.  There were two divisions, adult and juniors, it was an excellent turn out and everyone had a great time.  The knife and axe throwing turned out to be more challenging that everyone first expected.

Sunday saw the top 10 shoot out which was competitive in both the aided and unaided divisions.

A small group of travellers and club members stayed on the Sunday night, so they  could relax and travel on the Monday.

A big thankyou to  everyone who helped behind the scenes in the canteen, and  setting the ranges.

Hope to see everyone again next year for another great weekend.

3DAAA Victorian State Series

This was the last of the Victorian State Series for 2018 – and what a great week end at Mornington Peninsula Bowmen https://www.facebook.com/MorningtonPeninsulaBowmenArchery/ – the ranges were set with challenge and purpose to test any archer’s skill at unmarked 3D. The weather was exceptional and allowed us to work with Brett Pirlo on learning how to understand our equipment, learning how to judge distance, bow setup, speed vs accuracy, and so much more – an excellent imitative of 3D AAA through their – Mentoring Program rolled out across the states in 2018. Everyone from the kids to the adults took away snippets that they are or will be working on – the conversations went on long into the evening around the campfire & dinner. Day two saw many of us applying some of those new ideas, while some improved others needed some work as is always the case. With campsites being packed away, and the buzz of the last archers coming off the course, the MBO division had a tie for second place and the count back on 10s and 8s began, Paul Eagle & Tony Brezic were tied on 463 – final countback got Paul into second place with 6 more 10’s – Brett Pirlo in 1st place with 484. For the score results go to our new website www.3daaa.com.au

Some other comments from people at the event:

Will Ellen     Another great weekend down at Mornington 3daaa in the books, Brett Pirlo doing a great job mentoring and helping a lot of shooters out including myself👌🏻 I’m loving this Bowtech Realm x – Native 300 combo. This bow is a keeper for sure now bring on the nationals

Brett Pirlo   Mornington Peninsula 3DAAA Shoot. This place is beautiful, the Queenslander brought the sunshine to Victoria 😂.Got to catch up with these two champions, Paul Eagle and Drew Orton. What a great bunch of people I met today. Great job as always Cordell McGuire, your passion to grow archery in Victoria is inspiring.

Shaylen Lowe   I had a super weekend at Mornington 3daaa and on Saturday I shot a 92 on one of my rounds/100. Finishing the weekend on 408 and another medal 🙂. We had a special visitor Brett Pirlo who came from QLD who did a talk to us all about aiming, distance judging & shot technique. It was great! Brett & I had a shoot off on an indoor 3Daaa face at 20m. The winner DIDNT have to skull a bottle of water! On Sunday we did the shoot off and after 3 arrows we were equal so it came to a one arrow shoot off. I won! We shook hands and hugged and had a laugh. Then I got to watch Brett skull a bottle of water with everyone cheering on! I had so much fun and at the end of the day I went to Rye Pier with my archery friend Sam and jumped off into the freezing cold water we had ice cream and went home! Thank you Brett Pirlo & Justina for coming to have some fun with us! Was good to also see Mike and Chloe from NSW too! See you all at the 2018 Nationals in Nambucca!! ❤️

Mornington Peninsula Bowmen will be running one more of the one day series on the 14th of October 2018. Nationals 2018-Victorian or South Australian Archers intending to come to the Nationals in November 2018 can you advise Cordell McGuire – Liaison Officer via email vicliason@3daaa.com.au with your contact details so we can keep this group informed of things happening in Victoria and our trip to Nationals.