Outdoors, GA has the 252 awards but we at Glasgow Archers also have an award that can be earned indoors. Intended to span a range from beginner to experienced archer, it has proved quite popular over the years. The polar opposite of The Chocolate Challenge (silly rules with choccie prizes), this has been taken quite seriously by archers not known for being competitive. For many of us, the badges have become a small but very visible record of progress, and over the years quite a few GA members have built up a rather satisfying collection. Gotta catch them all it seems. So game face on ... lets do this!
The round shot for the badge is the Bray 1 ... 30 arrows at 20 yards on a 40cm face. The colour of badge achieved is based on your average arrow score as shown below. The Bray 1 was chosen as it could be comfortably fitted into a club evening without pressuring archers not used to structured competitions, 2 minute ends and straight jacket rules. A gentle introduction to award driven improvement and just a smidgen of competition .. honest. Shoot the required score once and the badge is yours. A handsome GA score-sheet for the round can be found here ... GA award scheme scoresheet however scoring apps for a Bray1 are just as valid. Badges can then be acquired from the current Keeper of the Badges.
*Compound - must use a 40cm face/triple face scoring only the X as a 10.While the lower colours have proven good encouragement to newbie archers and have led more than a couple into the thunderdome of competition ... Gold has proven a little tricky with several archers coming up just 1 or 2 points short not just once but over and over. Some of them moved into meme-able territory years ago! (Amusingly it was the same people who were scoring 250 on the gold 252! :o)
But let's be honest here ... that's a handsome badge. Wouldn't they look good in your medal/badge/award collection? (Cross me palm with seven 50p coins per badge gov and that's me cuttin' me own throat! Just shoot that required score.)
