Site Rules and FAQ
Site Rules
Before shooting at Wye Valley Archery, you will be asked to acknowledge and sign our site rules. If you fail to adhere to these rules consistently, you may be asked to leave the site, and potentially banned from further access.
Booking use of the facilities
For new archers, new patrons at Wye Valley Archery Centre, or individuals/groups looking to use the facilities with equipment hire, booking is performed via the website or telephone.
For regular patrons using only the course, you must book via text or by email to the owner (Lee) at least 24 hours before the day of shooting.
Payments
Patrons must pay via cash or bank transfer on each visit.
The fee for using our facilities with your own archery equipment (£15) allows you one full lap of our short and long course, a subsequent lap will incur an additional charge of £10, up to a maximum of 2 laps in total.
Personal belongings
All patrons are responsible for the safekeeping of their own equipment, cars, and valuables. Wye Valley Archery does not accept any responsibility for damaged or stolen property.
Children
A suitable responsible adult must always accompany children under 16.
Dogs
Dogs are welcome but must be kept under control or on a leash at all times. Please clean up after your dog.
Litter
Litter will not be tolerated. Please keep our woods tidy and take your waste with you.
Site safety
Archery can be dangerous. Any patron seen aiming a bow at full draw in any direction other than the intended targets, will result in an instant ban. This applies even if no arrow is knocked.
The field courses use a one-way system. This must be observed at all times. Patrons must never walk back to a peg from a target after shooting, and never return to a target earlier in the course.
Patrons must always use the marked paths. Wandering off these paths is a breach of course safety, and tampering with the paths in any way may result in suspension or ban.
When retrieving arrows, your bow must always be left leaning against the target in full view of the target's peg. Never look around a target for arrows without leaving a clear marker at the target (indicating a person is near to the target) for other archers to see. Failure to adhere may result in suspension or ban.
Patrons must use the marked paths at all times even when searching for arrows. Crossing or climbing border fencing to retrieve lost arrows will result in suspension or ban.
All shooting must cease if 3 long blasts of a whistle or horn are heard. You may continue once an official gives the all clear.
Site etiquette
Each target in the field course has four pegs to shoot from: Blue, White, Red, and Silver.
Archers are to shoot only from the peg they are allocated by the owner (Lee). Failure to adhere may result in suspension or ban. Typically, regular archers will begin at White.
Archers can progress to use the next coloured peg (Red) once a score of 500+ is witnessed by an official. 600+ is required to achieve Silver.
Only one archer is permitted to shoot (from their allocated peg) at any time. The archer will have a maximum of 3 shots per target, and shooting must cease once you have a scoring arrow.
It is the responsibility of every archer on the site to ensure that all other participants are shooting safely.
Wye Valley Archery instructors and Silver Arrow holders' word are final. These individuals are officials for Wye Valley Archery.
Restrictions
No new or first time visiting archers are permitted to shoot a bow over 40lb draw weight unless authorized by the owner (Lee).
There is a hard limit of 50lb draw weight for any compound bow regardless of experience level.
Patrons that wish to use their own equipment must bring it to the site for inspection prior to shooting. Any equipment that is sourced from a unsafe or irreputable supplier (Ebay/Temu), damaged, or mismatched to the equipment/archer will not be permitted for use.
Crossbows are not permitted for use at the site.
Wye Valley Archery reserves the right to remove from the course and premises any patron that is in breach of the above rules.
BE SAFE, BE AWARE, SHOOT STRAIGHT, AND HAVE FUN!