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Traditional Archery in France is still living.
Each year at spring, a competition, exclusively within archers of the club, takes place.

This is the King's shooting, also called the shooting of the bird. The aim is to shoot a wooden bird the size of a thumb (a good sized one!) from 50 m. The first archer succeeding is proclaimed King of the year.
He will be respected and he will organize the King's shooting of the next year.

2002 King's shooting
Compagnie des Archers du Grand Veneur