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Bracken Company of Archers

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Archery Club situated in East Dorset, UK.

02/11/2026

On Sunday Fraser went to the Forest of Bere 47th Crookhorn Indoor Portsmouth Shoot.

Unfortunately Tracy was unable to shoot due to being poorly, so Fraser took her place and shot a double detail with Barebow and a Longbow for sessions 1 & 3.

Whilst he took a while to warm up, he eventually started scoring well and posted scores good enough for 2nd in both categories after the first session.

Session 3 started really well, but shooting 240 arrows to the 120 everyone else was shooting began to take its toll. Despite the tiring, Fraser still managed to finish 3rd overall for single and double sessions of BareBow, and 2nd for both in Longbow bringing home 4 medals for Bracken.

Huge thank you to John Taylor and all the crew at FOBB for another fantastic shoot. Hopefully Tracy will be well enough to compete again soon.

29/10/2026

The Bracken indoor season is up and running! There is still space for more archers and plenty of time to post scores. We will accept outdoor scores provided you are not shooting alone. Usual rules - one end of sighters and in. These scores also count towards AGB Classifications up to Bowman 1st Class, so putt hem into Golden Records. Unfortunately for Jo - who shot a Grand Master Bowman score on the Bray 1 you can't claim that level on a club shoot.

27/10/2026

Hi all. I don’t have a secretary email at the moment so please text me instead thanks Tracy

21/10/2026

Our Halloween Fun Shoot will be on Saturday 31st October. All are welcome. Fancy dress encouraged but not required. Novelty targets at 20 yards. No sighting aids allowed. Shoot a different bow type if you like. Club bows will be available. 9.00 Set up. Shooting at 10.00. A trophy, medals and prizes. No entry fee. Please book in early on the shooting register so Jo knows how many cakes to bake!

15/10/2026

Last weekend Fraser was out and about for another clout this time the HAA championships weekend
The weather and company was great for both days and he walked away with 2 gold medals one of which was a very pretty Hampshire county medal
Massive thanks to archers and everyone involved in making this weekend possible🏹 😎💪

15/10/2026

Two weeks ago saw Osprey hold its last competition of the year its Triple shoot. Five Brackens attended and as usual did very well. Fraser took silver in AFB and was Lord Paramount for the day. Mark and Jo both took gold in their longbow categories, Dan took bronze in compound and Oren bronze in barebow. Well done everyone 🏹👏🏼 thanks as always to Osprey for a great competition

05/10/2026

Last weekend saw Oren and Fraser go to Southampton’s wand and metric clout weekend. Saturday Fraser took the gold for the wand and Sunday he had his sights set on a national record which he managed to equal in the morning and was on for handsomely beating it in the afternoon but unfortunately the wind and rain came in and he fell a couple of points short 🤦‍♂️ to be continued……..
Despite that he still set an impressive score but didn’t medal as he was shooting the compound distance not 165M BB

Oren however did manage to take Bronze in the 165M with a very impressive first ever clout competition entry.

Well done to them both and massive thanks to Southampton archery club’s Roz and Dicky summers for another great weekend of archery

21/09/2026

Yesterday Fraser and Tracy went to the GWAS senior Intercounties representing Dorset and Wilts. It was a long day with tough competition but they did well placing top for county in both their categories ( barebow) and both 5th over all across all counties. DWAA longbow team did really well winning the team category and DWAA placed third overall. Well done everyone that took part and thankyou to the host club Bowmen of Lytchett.

14/09/2026

Ospreys autumn triple shoot is coming up on the 4th October. There’s still spaces available so don’t forget to enter. This is a really fun, friendly competition. If you’re new to this and want to give it a try but haven’t done wand before or 3D please let me know and we can arrange some training at Bracken beforehand Tracy 🏹

13/09/2026

Address

Cranborne Middle School
Cranborne
BH215RP

Opening Hours

Tuesday	5pm - 9pm
Wednesday	5pm - 9pm
Thursday	5pm - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 9pm
Sunday	9am - 9pm

Website

http://www.brackenarchers.club/

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