Recently scored on a 1953 copy of the NFAA Handbook.  Good stuff from before the NFAA went all gloss & glitter with no substance for real world grass roots folks. (Roy Hoff must be weeping in his grave over what they’ve done to the NFAA and his ARCHERY magazine.)

One of the things that I ran across was the lay-out for the Battle Clout….. 200 yards !!!! Six ends of six for 36 shots at a target with a 12 foot center and rings six foot each. I’m going to assume that a practice round was allowed, much like today’s American Round. Scoring is to be 9 for the center, and 7-5-3-1 for the rings. If my fuzzy math is right, this would be a target on the ground 20 yards across. I believe that they indicated the target center with a flag and laid out the rings with some kind of white powder.

Arrows were to be at least 425 grains with broadheads not less than 7/8″.  Hopefully, the old timers will forgive me for using my field points on my 500 grain arrows.

Not too sure that my bow or my back is even capable of shooting 200 yards but believing that as long as it can be done safely, there’s no such thing as an un-ethical practice shot,  I GOTTA give this a try.