There is a type of archery that a target (clout) is laid at a 45º angle around fifty meters away and you need to shoot upwards to make it hit (around 60º) or it will go to far. As practiced by the Royal Company of Archers and the Woodmen of Arden, traditional longbows are used at distances of 165 to 219 m. The clout is a 79-centimetre white target with a black centre, which is laid at a 45º angle in the centre of five circles drawn on the grass. A hit on the clout itself scores 6 points. The first circle, 1 ½ feet from the centre of the clout, scores 5; the 3-foot circle (half-bow) scores 4; the 6-foot (bow), 3; the 9-foot (bow and half), 2; and the 12-foot (two bows), In another variety, called battle clout, a larger, more distant target and hunting arrows are often used.
In archery, a form of competition in which shooting for maximum distance is the object, with little or no regard for accuracy. Bows used may be heavy-draw, conventional handbows or even heavier footbows, which are strapped to the feet and drawn with both hands while the archer lies on the ground. Contestants are grouped in classes according to the pulling weight of their bows. Modern flight bows are composite. Arrows are as light as possible, usually made of wood or aluminium with a barreled shape fitted with small plastic vanes. Modern flight shooters, whose records advance with technological improvements of bows and arrows, have shot beyond 1.6 km.
A target archery's target has many surfaces surrounding the basic action of releasing an arrow from a bow to hit a target. Whether one or more archers are involved, there are almost limitless variations in making the bow and arrow from simple shot to proper competition up to and including the Olympic Games. Basically there are two divisions in competitive archery, target and field. Target competition centres around specific distances, usually from 20 to 90 meters or yards, with target faces of various sizes and concentric scoring rings marked off in centimetres. An exception makes paper simulations of animals. A game in archery is called a "round." Examples in target archery are the 600 Round and the 900 Round, named for potential perfect scores. In field shooting, there is the Field Round, the Hunters' Round and the Animal Round, named for the type of target. Up to four archers may shoot at the same target in a given round, each using his/her own distinguishable arrows. An "end" constitutes the number of arrows shot in succession before a score is recorded and the arrows are pulled. In target shooting an "end" may be from three to six arrows, depending upon the size target and the distance involved.