RANGE ETIQUETTE

  • Pay attention and cooperate with club officials carrying out their duties.

  • Music volume and genre should be kept to a level agreeable to all who are present.

  • Keep talking on the shooting line to a minimum to avoid distracting other shooters.

  • Do not take a phone call on the shooting line.

  • Do not comment on someone else’s shooting during an end.

  • Have an encouraging remark to pass, rather than a sarcastic one.

  • Do not make unkind remarks about your own shooting as this may upset or distract someone.

  • Attend meetings and air your views there, do not gripe on the range and upset others.

  • All members have the responsibility to keep the archery range and office areas clean. Please pick up all papers/used targets, etc., and place them in the garbage/recycling bins.

  • Make yourself available for some duties, such as cleaning the range, maintenance of target butts, etc.

  • If you lose an arrow point in the butt, do not attempt to retrieve it.

  • Never touch equipment belonging to someone else without his or her prior consent. Unless the owner cannot be located and it is presenting a hazard.

  • Step back from the shooting line to give the other archers a chance to complete their ends.

  • Respect the other arrows in the target while removing your own arrows.

  • Leave the other archers’ arrows in the target unless asked to remove them.

  • Archers should be mindful and respectful to shoot no more than the amount of arrows that does not affect (or hold up) the shooting line.