With pleasure, Archery NZ presents the updated Shooting Rules and Tournament Rules.
These take effect from 1 April 2025.
Please make yourselves familiar with them at our Rules and Regulations page.
Please note a few specific areas of change:
- Full incorporation of the Novice and Development rules approved by the Board earlier in 2024 as part of both rules documents
- Renaming the Royle Hutton Memorial Shoot to the Hutton Memorial Shoot to honour Royle and Alison Hutton
- Changing the compound U14 and Novice clout distance from 80 m to 120 m, which bridges between the U11 distance of 80 m and the U16 distance of 145 m.
- Clarifications about how National Tournament matchplay combinations work, and to the wording around National Outdoor Tournament Champion of Champions awards, which reflect Peter Russell’s wisdom in administering these events – these reflect current administration practices and do not change anything about how the 2025 National Outdoor Tournament runs.
- Setting Clout Merit Pins to different values by division
Thank you for your support.
Rules Committee including Meike Voigt (chair), Gordon Harris, Kelly Atkinson, Tahir Singh