Ashcombe Valley Archers is a NFAS field archery club founded in 1992 and run under the auspices of the NFAS (National Field Archery Society). We are based in Devon on the Eastern coast overlooking the towns of Dawlish and Teignmouth in Torbay.
We cater for all styles of shooting using long bows, recurve or compound bows at our field archery course of 40 3D targets, set at unmarked distances in the fields and woods of our grounds near the hamlet of Rixdale in Devon. We are open 365 days a year to our members and to visitors who are full members of the NFAS.
We stage competition shoots at our NFAS field archery course and our members travel far and wide to go to other shoots around the country.
Some of our archers are leaders in their style, holders of records and are national champions.
We are a non profit making club, so all money earned through membership fees and staging shooting events is reinvested back into the club for the benefit of the members or renewal of equipment and targets to enable us to put on good quality shoots.
We welcome new members and visitors, you will need to be a member of the NFAS to shoot at our club, provisional members can only shoot when accompanied by a full member.
If you wish to join our club you must be a full member of the NFAS, to this end we provide two means of joining, either by attending a beginners course or if you are already competent with a bow (e.g. a member of AGB) then you can apply for provisional membership of the NFAS. Once you have the provisional membership you can then arrange for assessment by one of our coaches, and after acceptance by the coach you can then apply for full membership of the NFAS. As a provisional member of the NFAS you can shoot on our practice ground and on our course if accompanied by a full member of the NFAS with 2 years continuous membership.
If you are already a full member of the NFAS you can shoot as a visitor at £5.00 per visit or you can join the club and pay the current annual fee of £70.00. In addition to the printed form below you can use our on line form which will be automatically sent to the club secretary.
We welcome all NFAS full members to visit our course, there is a honesty box in the car park for the £5.00 per person fee and maps of the course in the visitors enclosure on the side of the barn.
We run a tag system for those using the course, tags are available for visitors in the visitors enclosure together with the visitors book, please register in the book with time of arrival and departure and place a visitors tag on the red tag board near the entrance to the first field, whilst you are on the course and return the tag when you leave.
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Shoot calendar for 2026
3D Shoot: to be advised.
We expect to arrange an open shoot during June 2026, more details nearer the date.
Remember that if you are a shoot guardian you must produce the necessary NFAS forms, completed by the parent, to the Shoot Admin when booking in at the course in order to shoot that day.
See the Shoot pages for more details of the forthcoming shoot with 40 x 3D targets on our new layout arranged on 20 pegs as predator prey. We will be using Big Game Scoring at Ashcombe
