Archery Rules and Procedures

For our club: 

1. Medical release forms:   Give your medical release forms to the project instructor.

2. When arriving for each event, sign the record book: your name, age, year in 4-H and year in the Archery Project.  
    (Parents too need to sign too.) 

3. When shooting, if you miss a target, observe where your arrow landed,
   then hang up your bow, wait for the "All clear" signal, and retrieve that arrow from the field where it fell.
   Pay for each lost arrow.

4. Project reports: We are required to give oral or written project reports each month at club meetings. . 
   Enter your report in your record book.

For 4H:

1.  Watch out for other shooters.  We are guests of the Redwood Bowmen Club. Please respect this club. 

2. Use a bow stringer to string a bow.

3. When retrieving arrows, pick up fallen arriows from the field first, then pull arrows out of the target. Pull them straight to 
   preeent breaking them.   To prevent injury, there should be not more than two persons there.           

For the Redwood Bowmen. 

1. No high draw:
    We are not allowed to draw an arrow and point it higher than near-horizontal.
   If we should loose the arrow, it might travel a far distance and strike someone in the trees.

2. Stay on the correct side of the firing line: 
    During shooting, we are required to stay on the path-side of the firing line.
    During arrow retrieval, we can go onto the field on the east side of the firing line, and return.

3. Wait for the signal to shoot: 
    When everyone has come in from the field,
    the person at the south end of the path should give this signal:
   "Shoot at will."  (Who is Will ?)

4. Wait for the all-clear signal that all shooters have stopped shooting, and it is ok to retrieve arrows:
    This can occur when all shooters have shot their arrows and hung up their bows, or at other times.  
    Theperson at the south end of the path should give this signal:
    "All clear to retrieve your arrows."  (Is it really clear ?)

5. Use the bow racks: 
   We are required to hang up our bows before retrieving our arrows.

6. Share the range:
    Watch out for other shooters. We are at the practice range as guests of the Redwood Bowmen. 
    Use a limited number of arrows to complete shooting with the others.
    Wait for the "All clear -- to retrieve arrows" signal, so that everyone retieves arrows together.
    Use the targets with care.    Targets belong to the Redwood Bowmen.
                                              
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(c) 2014 Lee F. Donaghey