What is Field Archery?
The “Animal Round” is either a 14 or 28 target unit involving between one and three arrows (see shooting rules for the animal round) and is shot as part of a Championship round after a Field Round.
There are many styles of shooting acknowledged by the NFAA with separate classes for men and women.
Listed below are some of the basic styles.
1. Free Style (FS) consists of using any style sight/release and any combination of options.
2. Free Style Limited (FSL) is the same as FS but the archer uses their fingers in place of a mechanical release.
3. Bowhunter Free Style (BHFS) consists of a release, a sight with no more than 5 fixed pins and a stabilizer no
longer than 12 inches.
4. Bowhunter Free Style Limited (BHFSL) is the same as BHFS but the archer uses their fingers in place of a
mechanical release.
5. Bowhunter (BH) consists of one shooting with fingers with one finger over or under the nock of the arrow and a
stabilizer no longer than 12 inches. No sight is used.
6. Barebow (BB) consists of shooting with your fingers, no sight and no fixed anchor point (String walking is
allowed).
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Archer Rotation For All Target Faces:
archer on the left shoots bottom left
archer on the right shoots bottom right
2nd archers to the line:
archer on the left shoots top left
archer on the right shoots top right
AFTER FIRST 14 TARGETS
ARCHERS SWITCH:
2nd archers shoot first, 1st archers shoot second
archer location on the line is switched -
left archer now shoots on the right and on the right target, right archer now shoots on the left and on the left target
target location is switched-
the first to the line (formerly the second shooters) now shoots bottom
second archers to the line (formerly the first shooters) now shoot top
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Field and Hunter Rounds - Same Scoring
28 targets, switch target location and archer shooting location
after first 14 targets
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| FIELD TARGET |
5 points
4 points
3 points
An arrow shaft need only touch the line to be counted in the area of next higher value.
SHOOTING RULES
Each archer shall shoot (4) arrows at each target
DISTANCE MARKERS
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| HUNTER TARGET |
• YOUNG ADULT (15 through 17) Shoot from the adult White Markers.
• YOUTH (12 through 14) Shoot the adult stakes up to 50 yards. Any adult yardage over 50
yards will have a Blue Marker which indicates the youth shooting position.
• CUB (9 through 11) Shoot from the Black Markers.
• PEEWEE (8 and below) Shoot from the Green Markers.
28 targets, switch target location and archer shooting location after first 14 targets
TARGET FACE SCORING
1st arrow-
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| ANIMAL TARGET |
20 points wound
18 points
If no score on 1st arrow:
2nd arrow-
17 points vital
16 points wound
14 points
If no score on 2nd arrow:
3rd arrow-
13 points vital
12 points wound
10 points
If no score on 3rd arrow:
0 points
An arrow shaft need only touch the line to be counted in the area of next higher value.
SHOOTING RULES
A maximum of (3) numbered arrows may be shot, in successive order, and the highest scoring arrow will count. In the case of walk-up 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 in order to be scored.
DISTANCE MARKERS
• ADULT (18 and over) Yellow Markers indicate the yardage and shooting position.
• YOUNG ADULT (15 through 17) shoot from the adult Yellow Markers.
• YOUTH (12 through 14) Shoot the adult stakes up to 50 yards. Any adult yardage over 50
yards will have a Blue Marker which indicates the youth shooting position.
• CUB (9 through 11) Shoot from the Black Markers.
• PEEWEE (8 and below) Shoot from the Green Markers.
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