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Gold at the end of the rainbow this afternoon at the archery range 🪎🌈

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Photo of an archery range with a rainbow in the sky above the targets. Photo of an archery target with a rainbow behind it, arching down toward the target's gold centre.
June 28, 2026 at 7:30 AM
spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Uh-oh. I'm being tempted by archery bling. I absolutely do not need a carbon fibre clicker with anodised parts colour coordinated with my bow's riser. I've already got a plain steel and black plastic one that works fine. I do want one though...

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Product photo for an archery accessory, a recurve bow clicker. The image shows five clickers with anodised parts in different colours, as well as another one in place attached to a bow.
May 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Meanwhile I did manage to get 11 ends in myself, mostly before the rain started. Challenging conditions with blustery winds from the start, but I did OK.

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Photo of a target bow on a stand at an outdoor archery range, with targets in the distance. Photo of a plaque, saying "This facility is a 2000 Games venue for the world's finest athletes. We are grateful for its contribution to the Games of the New Millennium."
March 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM
spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Back to #stabbingatadistance this weekend, after a four week gap due to the school holidays. During that time our coach cut our arrows down to a sensible length, finally unlocking for us the recurve target archer's secret weapon: the clicker.

Yesterday we had a […]

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Photo of a target recurve bow on a stand with many archery targets in the distance. Close up photo of part of a recurve target bow in the area of the arrow rest, showing a clicker. It is a flat metal arm fixed to the bow riser, at and resting against a cylindrical protrusion from the front of the bow.
April 26, 2026 at 7:25 AM
spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
The photos that aren't of an archery target are of the archery lizard. This water skink was keeping an eye on things from under the club house.

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Photo of the head of an Eastern Water Skink poking out from under a corrugated steel wall.
March 15, 2026 at 6:21 AM
spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
The SOPA Youth Squad did manage to do an hour and a half of shooting by setting up on the under cover shooting line, but even they retreated inside the club house eventually.

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March 8, 2026 at 6:09 AM
spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Warm at the range today for the kid's and my coaching session with coach Alex.

The facilities at SOPA are really very good, especially when the lines are freshly repainted and the targets have been recently repaired.

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Photo of an outdoor archery range on a sunny day, taken from a little behind the shooting line. There are many targets and freshly painted lines in the grass. Photo of a view shooting a bow and arrow while a coach looks on.
February 22, 2026 at 4:24 AM
spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
I am realising how useful videoing each other might be for working on our form. I gave the kid a few suggestions after watching this slow-mo.

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December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM