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Welcome, weary traveller of the Internets, to the home of the University of Birmingham Archery Club (UBAC). Take a seat, put your feet up, and help yourself to a biscuit (the chocolate HobNobs are excellent).
Also/previously known as the Birmingham University Toxophily and Toucan Society (BUTTS), the archery club has been around for quite a while — long enough that the local university league is named after us. The toucan has long been the club mascot, as anyone who joins us is sure to find out!
We embrace any student or staff member at the university who wants to shoot, or shoot and drink, though strictly in that order. Hopefully this site should tell inquisitive minds (or those that are here by accident) anything they need to know about us as well as providing information on competitions and events that are to come.
You are warned that archers are all somewhat eccentric, probably too much time spent sniffing cement when repairing arrows and whatnot.
News 
Competitions Update
Published: 1st December 2011
The first two BUTTS Legs of the year have been and gone, with Birmingham competing at Loughborough University on 19th November and Warwick University a week later.
Our novice team is off to an excellent start, with the second highest score at the first leg (1890, just 5 points below Cambridge’s winning score) and finishing first at the second leg, with a fantastic score of 1919. At both legs, the novice team was made up of Allan West, Lewis Clark, Eloise Cornish, and Joe Ingledew, who also picked up five individual medals between them across the two legs. Birmingham currently sits at the top of the novice table.
The experienced team have got off to a slower start, with their scores of 2149 and 2150 putting them ahead of only Derby and Nottingham Trent’s teams. The experienced team comprised Jack Bryant, Mickie Green, and Steven Johnson at both legs, as well as Sarah Russell at Loughborough, and Tom Sherwood at Warwick. Experienced individual medals have been won by Mickie Green (Ladies Recurve bronze at Loughborough), Jos Sarsby (Barebow silver at Warwick), and Hannah Lake (Longbow gold at Warwick).
Full results can be found, as always, on the BUTTS League website. The next BUTTS Leg will be held at Derby University on 4th February.