Day Two NFAA

Day two of the NFAA National Championships was a hunter round; another 28 targets and 4 arrows per target. Today I was shooting with Lana and Melissa. I met and shot with Lana in 2012 in Argentina. She is here with her sister, Lyn, and they’re a great couple of ladies. We had a lovely relaxed day of shooting, with lots of chatting and laughing. Melissa is from Pennsylvania, and she was shooting really, really well.

Lana, Melissa and I

Before we started shooting we noticed some rustling in the bushes, caused by a pair of fawns! Both ladies said they were twins, and they spent the day running and leaping around the course. We never saw their mother, but they appeared to be having a lot of fun, and were very safe at a target archery range, provided they didn’t leap in front of a target at an inopportune moment. I had tried to capture some still shots of these little guys all day, without any real success . . . they were very quick and by the time I got my camera trained on them, they had passed by.

Later in the day, I did capture them on video. One ran out right in front of us, and we knew the other fawn was soon to follow, so I grabbed my phone and started the recording. If you look in the middle of this video you can make out the head of the little thing peering at me through the grass. Towards the end of the short video you’ll see him more clearly:

After the day of shooting I grabbed some lunch with Bea, and had a relatively early night.