Tournament 2025
Its spring again and May 10th and 11th saw the annual WRS tournament return to Downing playing fields. Approximately 140 participants basked under glorious blue skies and battled a brisk wind to have a great weekend. [read]
CCB WRS Tournament 2024
May 11 and 12 saw the return of our annual world record status tournament. The vent ran smoothly and was greatly appreciate by the approx. 140 attendees. The success owes a lot to Jack’s efforts though the year in planning and organising. [read]
Summer shooting starts again
Summer 2024 is upon us (sort of) and with the later nights comes the opportunity to return to outdoor shooting after a long winter of indoor rounds. The weather proved to be on our side for once and we managed a good mix of archers for this inaugural event. [read]
Summer Celebrations
On 21 August the club held its first social event since the pandemic.
What was intended as a BBQ was turned into a kitchen catered event due to the tinder-dry outfield.
Around 25 members and guests turned out on a lovely sunny afternoon
Equipment officer Mark Yard and his wife Lucie laid on a cornucopia of foods and a splendid assortment of games including a very competitive egg and spoon race. [read]
Jolly Archers Open Western 2022
Jolly’s Open western resumed its usual July date this year (31 July 2022).
CCB had a record attendance with 8 archers making the trip to Huntingdon
We mixed seasoned competitors (Jack, Richard, Anke, Lydia, Huw); new to external comps (Alvaro); and those returning after a longish absence form competition (Seb, Patrick). [read]
The real reason to go to the World Archery Weekend
Whilst we sent some members to shoot at the county champs, and even won a few prizes, the biggest winner of the day was secretary Patrick who won a flight in a Tiger Moth in the raffle. Read about his experiences below. [read]
CCB at Cambridgeshire County Champs
The Cambridgeshire outdoor County Championships took place on 19th June 2022 at Girton College, hosted by Peacock Archers. CCB send a number of archers, ranging from defending champions to first-time competitors. One of the latter was Mark Yard, who provided the wonderful summary of the day below. [read]
Compound Success at Kestrels’ York/Hereford
On 8th May 2022 the intrepid CCB Compound Team of Jack and Lydia made their way over the border to Kestrels’ Archery Club of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire to shoot a York/Hereford competition. The first big event for a couple of years it was a chance to blow off the cobwebs somewhat. [read]
Winter Postal League Results
Over the 2021/22 Indoor season we took part in two Postal Leagues. Both meant shooting a match against a different club from November to March – and hoping for the best! Teams consisted of two and three archers for compound and recurve, respectively, and were made up of the members with the highest scores for that month. [read]
Jolly Archers’ Open Western
On 19th September 2021 four CCB archers made the trip up to Huntingdon to shoot the Jolly Archers’ Open Western Competition.
Whilst Richard, Jack, and Lydia have all shot competitions before, for Nick Tiley it was his first experience. Read on to hear about how he, and the rest of the team, got on. [read]