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    Sep 26, 2019 5 minutes

    I NOTE YOU CAN ACHIEVE THE UK CLASSIFICATIONS (SUCH AS MASTER BOWMAN) SHOOTING EITHER METRIC OR IMPERIAL DISTANCES. BOTH ARE AVAILABLE TO ME. APART FROM ACCESSIBILITY OF COMPETITIONS, IS THERE ANY ADVANTAGE IN SHOOTING ONE OR THE OTHER?

    Most UK archery achievement classifications such as Master Bowman can be achieved shooting metric rounds (such as a WA1440) or imperial distances (such as a York). Each involves shooting long distances; 90m or 100yds for senior men. I have studied archer scores at different distances over many years and have found that they can be modelled mathematically very well. (You can find my recent published paper in that area at: https://bit.ly/2kvcZ0X)

    The distance of an archer’s arrows from the centre of the target is normally distributed and the standard deviation can be modelled as: where D is the target distance in metres, and I is

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