West Virginia Archery Club State Shoot
- ALL SHOOTERS must have a signed Archery Club Parental Consent Form in order to participate. Lack of having forms will result in the team/individual not shooting, NO EXCEPTIONS.
- Shooters may only shoot for the team of the school in which they are enrolled. A full team is not required for participation and students may shoot to compete for individual awards
- Shooters are responsible to verify & sign their own scorecards
- Targets will be scored before arrows are pulled: early pulled arrows are scored as a 0.
- Targets will be set at an unmarked distance, at the top range of approximately 30 yards for high school and 25 yards for middle school.
- When shooting the shooter must touch the stake with a portion of his/her body.
- Any power binoculars may be used, shooters may glass target prior to shooting, but may not glass from shooting stake after his/her shot.
- Teams will consist of at least 5 shooters with the top 5 scores being counted.
- Group will consist of 4 or 5 individuals with no more than 2 from the same school
- In the event of a tie:
- Individuals: In order to decide tied scores a shoot-off will be held using a 3-D animal target set at an unmarked yardage and the one with the higher score wins.
- Team: Go back to the 6th man on team; if still tied 7th man, etc.
- EQUIPMENT:
- FIXED PINS, NO SCOPES, and no limit of the number of pins you can have.
- No poundage limitations or arrow weigh restrictions.
- One single stabilizer being less than 12” in length from the nearest point of attachment is allowed.
- If fixed pins/cross hair sight is used it may not be adjusted while on the range during the tournament.
- Range- 30 target course.
- A compound, recurve, or longbow with or without sights may be shot with release aid, glove, or bare fingers.
- If sight is used it will have fixed on cross hair style pins.
- Circle pins allowed if all circles are the same size only.
- Any arrow released accidentally or deliberately will be, if not in scoring area of the target, scored as a 0.
- Any arrow, which is dropped and can be recovered while touching the stake, may be re-nocked and re-shot.
- The scoring must be as follows:
- 11-X- Small circle centered within the ten rings. Approximately 25% of the ten rings will be used. Arrow must at least touch the circle. The score will be X-10 on the scorecard.
- 10-circle inside vital area. Arrow must at least touch circle.
- 8-vital area other than the 10 point circle. Arrows must at least touch the vital area line.
- 5- remainder of the animal touching body color.
- 0-hit in the horn or hoof not touching body color, any other misses, or glance off.
- Robin-Hooded arrows will be scored as the arrow imbedded in the target.
- Shooters shall refrain from foul language and conduct themselves with good sportsmanship.
- Yardage may not be discussed between shooters until entire group has shot the target.