John, the Clout Round was six ends of six arrows each, shot from 180yrds at a 30ft circle on the ground with a 1ft flag in the center. There are 5 concentric scoring rings, each one yard wide, scored 5,4,3,2,1, from the center. The winning score in the Longbow Class was 99 which is a little down from past years. The biggest problem isn't calculating distance, but rather playing the wind. At that distance most longbows in the 50-55lb class were aiming at about 39 degrees high and for the first four ends we were fighting a violent quartering headwind which required aiming about 15 degrees off target. The last two ends the wind died down and it was relatively easy to lob them in. I watched Rick Stonebraker from Texas in the Olympic Recurve Class break the flagpost with one shot and then hit the stub of the flagpost with his next shot. Truly amazing shooting.

Jack

Edited by - Floxter on 08/16/2002 21:25:50