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Interested in archery? there are many different types, read below to find out more or contact you nearest club for more information.

Target archery:

Target archery is the most commonly practiced form of archery worldwide and is practiced at most Northern Ireland Archery Society clubs.

Target tournaments are conducted regularly and are held both indoors and outdoors. Shooting distances vary from 18 metres (indoor) up to 90 metres (outdoor), with target sizes ranging from 40 centimeters indoors to 80 and 122 centimeters for outdoors.

Targets consist of five colours, each colour being divided into 2 to provide 10 scoring zones. The innermost ring is given a point value of 10, down to the outermost ring with a value of 1.

Outdoor target rounds involve shooting a set number of arrows over several distances and target face sizes. Indoor events normally involve shooting 60 arrows, with outdoor events shooting 72, 90, 120 or 144 arrows.

Field archery:

Field archery is a challenging outdoor discipline in which the archer takes on the terrain as well as the target.

Field archery is a combination of archery, golf, and hiking. A course is set up in a woodland setting taking advantage of hills, slopes, angles and light and shade.

A field course is made up of either 24 or 28 targets. Depending on the round being shot the archer is required to shoot either three or four arrows at each target. Distances range from 10 to 60 meters and target sizes vary from 20 to 80 centimeters.

Clout archery:

Clout archery is not such a popular discipline in Northern Ireland because of the amount of safe space required to shoot it.

Clout archery is derived from medieval warfare where archers would lob arrows onto the advancing army.

target measuring 15 meters is diameter is marked on the ground, with a triangular marker flag placed at its center. The archer's task is to lob arrows into this ground-target from distances up to 180 meters.

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