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Odds, ends and rounds

  • 14-11-2006 9:18pm
    #1
    Panserborn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭


    Hey all

    Need some clarification :confused: . What officially is an END and what is a ROUND. Some people call 3 arrows an end, others call 6 arrows an end.

    If 3 arrows isn't an end, what is it?

    Been at this game for years so I should know .................. but I don't. :rolleyes:


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  • #2
    Psychobiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭Psychobiker


    I think it depends - it makes logic that three arrows is an end, because that's what you step away from the line having shot...but then there's threespot and when you look at scoresheets, the end of each line is after six arrows, no?

    A round is after thirty AFAIK. FITA have definitions define all these, where that document is now just escapes me


  • #3
    lilRedSmurf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 170 ✭✭lilRedSmurf


    End : The number of arrows shot before the score is taken or a portion of any specific round.

    Round :A series of arrows shot at specified target faces at set distances.




    Try this site its pretty comprehensive for most terms.

    http://members.aol.com/tradbowmd/archdict.htm


  • #4
    Panserborn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Panserborn


    lilRedSmurf wrote:
    End : The number of arrows shot before the score is taken or a portion of any specific round.

    Hmm, does that mean that both the 3 arrow (portion of a round) and the 6 arrow (score taken) runs are both called "ends"?

    I guess there is a difference between score TAKEN and score ADDED UP.


  • #5
    AceCarey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭AceCarey


    Well i always called the amount of arrows shot befor collecting an end. So you can call either 3 or 6 an end. Depeds on how maney arrows befor collecting.


  • #6
    toxof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭toxof


    Every 6 arrows is an end.

    The origin comes from when outdoors there used to be targets at either end of the field and you would shoot 6 arrows one way, walk down, score and collect the arrows and then shoot the other direction.

    Now, even when you shoot 3 arrows at a time technically an end is after 6 arrows when you get your total for that 'end'.


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  • #7
    Panserborn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Panserborn


    Is there a name for the 3 arrows that we shoot at competitions?

    Sorry for being picky, realised the last day that I wasn't sure what to be calling things and I didn't want to be giving the beginners in the club bad habits!

    Out of more pickyness, at IVs does Tony always say "2 ends of sighters" - by definition this then means 12 arrows. Ye can see how I get confubbled! :confused:


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