The Turpin Outdoor Education Center will be hosting a National Field Archery Association (NFAA) Field Hunter Animal (FHA) League at our beautiful outdoor Field Course this summer!

The FHA round simulates real-world conditions and challenges archers with varied distances, target sizes, and terrain. Each week we will alternate between the Field, Hunter or Animal round that consists of 14 different targets each. If you haven’t been to our Field course before, now is a great chance to explore it with other experienced archers!

The league will meet at the outdoor shooting tower at 6pm on Thursday evenings for 10 weeks, starting May 15. From there groups will be determined and set to start at a specific target within the field course.

If you can’t make it to league night, archers can drop-in during the center’s open hours, collect your scorecard and shoot the round outside on the field course Friday through Tuesday, sunrise to sunset. Targets will be rotated each week. The final date to turn in scorecards will be July 29.

Participants who are new to field archery should join us on Thursday evenings to enjoy shooting with the group, to learn the ropes, and gain valuable experience shooting with seasoned archers!

Individual prizes will be awarded by drawing ‘tickets’. Tickets are earned by attendance, top score each week, most overall improved, and top overall score. The number of prizes awarded will depend on the number of entries (1 prize per 5 entries). Weekly top score tickets will be awarded for each age class/bow style represented.

For participants without personal equipment you may opt to use a rental bow on the Thursday League Nights (or if they are taking a class, their class bow).

League is open to anyone 8 and up. Previous archery experience required.

Sign up for all 10 weeks at once for $80 (20% discount for annual pass holders), or pay at the door for $10 per attendance.

AGE CLASSES
Each target station will have distance markers indicating where archers in different classes should shoot. The age classes are:
• Cub (Under 12)
• Youth (12-14)
• Young Adult (15-17)
• Adult (18+)
All archers will shoot from their specific yardage marker that will be marked and labeled at each target on the field course. All the distances are already measured, marked and verified!

For our league – Longbow, Traditional, Barebow and Barebow Recurve shoot the same distances as Youth. Olympic Recurve shoots the distances as assigned for the age class they are registered in.

The maximum distances for each age division is as follows:
• Cubs: 30 yards
• Youth: 50 yards
• Young Adult and Adult: 80 yards

FIELD ROUND
Scoring is 5 for the spot, 4 for the two white rings, and 3 for the outside black rings. The X is counted as 5 points and used as a tiebreaker.

Each archer shall shoot 4 arrows at each of the 14-target layouts in a unit. In 10 cases this shall mean shooting the four arrows from a single stake at a single target. In the other four it may mean either shooting one arrow from each of four stakes at a single target or it may mean shooting all four arrows from a single stake but at four separate targets, or one arrow from each of four stakes at either two (2) or four (4) targets.

Fundamentals of a Field Round

HUNTER ROUND
Scoring is 5 for the spot, 4 for the center ring, and 3 for the outer ring. The X is counted as 5 points and used as a tiebreaker.

Archers will shoot 4 arrows at each of the 14 target layouts in a unit. In shooting the Hunter round the archer will observe the following shooting positions:
• 1 marker – Shoot four arrows from the same stake.
• 2 markers – Shoot two arrows from each stake.
• 4 markers – Shoot one arrow from each stake.

Fundamentals of a Hunter Round

ANIMAL ROUND

Archers will shoot a maximum of 3 marked arrows, in successive order, and the highest scoring arrow will count. In the case of walkup targets the first arrow must be shot from the farthest stake, the second arrow from the middle stake, and the third arrow from the nearest stake.

Scoring dots will NOT be used on animal targets. The maximum score for each animal round is 280 points.

Fundamentals of a Animal Round

LEAGUE SCHEDULE
Week 1 – May 15: Field
Week 2 – May 22: Hunter
Week 3 – May 29: Animal
Week 4 – June 5: Field
Week 5 – June 12: Hunter
Week 6 – June 19: Animal
Week 7 – June 26: Field
Week 0 – July 3: No league
Week 8 – July 10: Hunter
Week 9 – July 17: Animal
Week 10 – July 24: Archers Choice – Final Week

RULES
All rounds will follow NFAA rules as stated in the NFAA Constitution and By-Laws, Article VI, Sections A-C (pp 50-54). For all NFAA rounds, an arrow shaft need only touch the line to be counted in the area of next higher value.

Complete list of NFAA Field/Hunter/Animal Round Rules can be found here!