Loch Norman Games 2007

**brandycr** · 23rd April 07, 08:47 AM

Thanks for the pictures they are great.

**Arlen** · 23rd April 07, 09:26 AM

Great pictures. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.
How did the archery go?

**Kiltedmusiclover** · 23rd April 07, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Panache

Fun Pictures!

But I want to know if either Madbagpiper or Tartan Hiker got the apple!

Cheers

Jamie

I had to leave midway through the competition so I do not know
who advanced.
When I left the top score was 1 pt. and I think they were both at
0.

You got points as follows:
3 pts if you hit the apple and knocked it off the head.
1 pt if you nicked the apple.
-1 it you nicked the head.
-3 if you hit the head.

You had 5 shots.

I have to say that I thought it was a very difficult shoot.
They were about 11 to 12 feet away.

They will have to fill us in on who won and what the final score was.

**Tartan Hiker** · 23rd April 07, 09:53 AM

Well.....

MY excuse is that we were both using borrowed bows that we had shot maybe a couple of dozen times...and I'm sticking to it. If only I could have used my recurve! The apples were 7 yards out, so not an easy shot.

Neither of us hit the apple. MadBagpiper took the wig off one of the heads without cutting the flesh, so no points deducted. All of our shots were very close (1-4 inches for the most part), but no hits.

The eventual winner only nicked two apples...out of about 40 shooters not one scored a solid hit.

MB was in a shoot-off for the youth group, and took third place.

Of course I went back to the campsite, set an apple on a milk jug and proceeded to hit it 4 times in 9 shots from about 18 yards. Go figure.

I'll be adding some pics this evening...can't do that at school. Stay tuned for an action shot of Barclay in the Tug-of War!

Nelson, did you get any pics of the massed bands performing on Saturday?

**Barclay** · 23rd April 07, 10:06 AM

Great pics. I wish I had gotten there early enough to see you guys. I got into town about 4PM and hooked up with Clan Hiker and hung out with them, and some other fine Scots, in the campground for dinner and frosty adult beverages.

Sunday was a blast too with perfect weather (I have the sunburn to prove it.) and great heavy athletics and other events. Albannach even played us out as we were getting ready to leave.

All in all, it was awesome (...and now I'm hungry). Sorry I didn't get to meet you guys out there Sunday. I forgot my camera, so I got no pictures at all to add.

**Kiltedmusiclover** · 23rd April 07, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by Tartan Hiker

..

......The apples were 7 yards out, so not an easy shot.

Opps I meant 20 to 21 FEET kml
........
Nelson, did you get any pics of the massed bands performing on Saturday?

I did get the some shots of the massed band. Well sort of.??...
Since they came on in 2 waves, I got both as they came in separately.
But to get the wide angle I needed for the whole band
(I think it is the largest massed band in the NC games.??...)
I kept getting the lady’s (in front of me) hat in the photo. I may be able to
show 1 photo of 1/2 of the band and another photo of the other half.
I will work on that tonight.

**Tartan Hiker** · 23rd April 07, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by Barclay

Sorry I didn't get to meet you guys out there Sunday.

-----> Saturday <------

And I got it wrong, too. I paced off the distance to the apples as 11 big steps, and my pace is pretty close to a yard.

(I'm thinking that the weekend has you fogged up just like me....I really didn't want to go to work this AM!)

**Alan H** · 23rd April 07, 10:55 AM

looks like a GREAT day!

Little secret...I was an Archery Instructor one summer at a Campin the Santa Cruz mountains here in California. No kids really wanted to do archery, so I had WEEKS of time to myself at the butts. The Camp had bought two compound bows (why?) and four new laminated wood 40-lb bows to supplment the dozen old fiberglass 20 pounders they had for the kids.

By the end of the summer I could put 8 out of ten shots within a 6 inch circle at 100 feet.

But that was 28 years ago!

**furrycelt** · 23rd April 07, 11:27 AM

it was great getting to meet everybody; and put faces with names.

hindsight being 20/20 and all, we should have met at the Clan MacBubba tent so we could include Ron Wright. and we should have started earlier online organizing when to get together so we could have included, KiltedTurtle, Barclay, Madbagpiper, and anyone else i might have missed.