252 Awards
252 AWARDS
Fakenham Bowmen is keen to encourage members to develop their abilities and reward them for this, so we support the 252 Award Scheme.
The scheme is designed to help you practice and improve your shooting by achieving a particular score at gradually increasing distances. There are several variants of the scheme, we have adopted the most common one. Note that it is not an AGB recognised round, so it does not count towards your AGB Classification or Handicap.
The 252 round is 3 dozen arrows at a chosen distance on a 122cm face, after 6 sighters. It uses 5 zone scoring (gold = 9 red = 7 blue = 5 black = 3 white = 1).
If you achieve the qualifying score twice at that distance then you can claim a badge. For recurve bows, the score is usually 252, hence the name. Different bow types and the longer distances require different scores (see the table below).
The distances are 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 , 80, and 100yards. The required scores are as follows:
| Distance (yards) | Recurve | Compound | Longbow | Barebow |
| 20 | 252 | 280 | 164 | 189 |
| 30 | 252 | 280 | 164 | 189 |
| 40 | 252 | 280 | 164 | 189 |
| 50 | 252 | 280 | 164 | 189 |
| 60 | 252 | 280 | 164 | 189 |
| 80 | 252 | 280 | 126 | 164 |
| 100 | 252 | 280 | 101 | 139 |
The Aims:
· To encourage archers to improve their accuracy by achieving a particular score at gradually increasing distances.
· To introduce archers to shooting a round without any kind of warm-up.
· To encourage skill improvement using different bow types, for those archers that wish to..
Our Rules:
The rules are not set by one organisation so there are different interpretations, these are ours:
· The round must be shot as the very first round of the day, without any warmup shooting.
· The round can be shot as the first 3 dozen arrows of a longer round (see Rules In Detail below).
· The qualifying rounds must be shot on different days, only one attempt per shooting day.
· The round must be shot outdoors.
· Scores need to be achieved twice to qualify for the award.
· The round must be shot and scored under formal shooting conditions, so your arrow scores must be written down by another archer, you can’t score your own arrows.
· The awards must be achieved in sequence, once you claim an award you cannot later claim a lower one.
· Badges are awarded for achieving the score on a particular bow type. (See Rules In Detail below).
· To claim an award, two counter-signed score sheets need to be submitted to Elaine and/or Paul.
Our Rules In Detail:
· You can carry over scores from one shooting season to the next.
· You can shoot the 252 as the first 3 dozen arrows of an AGB Imperial Round which starts at that chosen distance.
· For example, a 40yd 252 as the first 3 dozen arrows of a National40 (which begins with 4 dozen arrows at 40yd)
· For example, but not a Warwick40 (since that begins with only 2 dozen arrows at 40yd)
· Since badges are awarded for achieving the score on a particular bow type, this has implications:
· This means you can claim the same award twice using different bow types (a small fee for subsequent badges).
· However, you must use the same bow type on the first qualifying score and the second qualifying score.
· You can claim one value badge on one bow type and a different value badge on a different bow type, if you wish.
· You can shoot a shorter distance 252 after a longer distance 252 but only if the shorter is on a different bow type.
· You can now interleave scores but only if shot in sequence, so for example if you achieve a 30yd score then a 40yd then 30yd then 40yd, you can claim a 30yd badge then a 40yd badge. However, if you achieve a 40yd score then a 30yd then 40yd then 30yd, you have achieved 40yd before 30yd and can only claim one or the other.