TARGET ARCHERY
This the most commonly practiced form of archery worldwide and
is practiced at most Northern Ireland Archery Society clubs.
Target tournaments are conducted regularly and held both indoors and outdoors. Shooting distances vary from 18 metres (indoor) to 90 metres (outdoor), with target sizes being 40 centimeters for indoors and either 80 or 122 centimeters for outdoors. Targets are five colours with each colour being divided into 2 to provide 10 scoring zones. The innermost ring is given a point value of 10, down to the outermost ring with a value of 1.
Outdoor target rounds involve shooting a set number of arrows over several distances and target face sizes. Indoor events normally involve shooting 60 arrows, with outdoor events shooting either 72, 90, 120 or 144 arrows.

FIELD ARCHERY
Field archery is a challenging outdoor discipline in which the archer takes on the terrain as well as the target. Field archery is a combination of archery, golf, and Hiking. A course is set up in a wood land setting taking advantage of hills, slopes, angles and light and shade.

A field course is made up of either 24 or 28 targets. Depending on the round being shot the archer is required to shoot either three or four arrows at each target. Distances range from 10 to 60 metres and target sizes vary from 20 to 80 centimeters.

CLOUT ARCHERY
Clout archery is not such a popular discipline in Northern Ireland because of the amount of safe space required to shoot it. Clout archery is derived from medieval warfare where archers would lob arrows onto the advancing army. A target measuring 15 metres is diameter is marked on the ground, with a triangular marker flag placed at its center. The archer's task is to lob arrows into this ground-target from distances up to 180 metres.

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