Lots of bull at archery butts

You could say Rotorua's Scott Brown has an eye for bull.
And he copped a lot of bull this weekend.
The experienced archer won the crossbow section of the Rotorua Archery Club's Merit Star tournament after two-days intense competition and hitting the bullseye more often than not.
Some of the country's best archers were among the 36 that lined up on the Rotorua range and fired thousands of arrows at colourful targets.
Scott, a New Zealand crossbow representative at the World Champs in 2002, was leading after day one and managed to maintain his lead yesterday.
Brown's good form was surprising given he had not competed since last October and has barely picked up his bow.
It is also the first time in five years he has actually competed in the local event because as club president he has always had to organise it instead.
But relinquishing the president's title last year has opened up the door for him to compete.
"There's a good mix of people here as most of them are using it as a build-up to the transtasman shoot next month," Brown said.
"This event always draws good shooters and large numbers."
He said it was encouraging to see so many young shooters out honing their shooting skills.
"There are so many events for the kids to aim for it's encouraging for them."
Brown had a 28 point lead over Hamilton's Tony Kemp after four rounds on day one.
Kemp had a better second day shooting but was only able to close the gap to 17 points. In the crossbow event Whakatane's Les Jones finished in fourth.
Other local shooters were 16-year-old Hamish Randle, who chose to shoot up a grade, in the men's recurve senior event.
The Lakes High School student is in the New Zealand development squad eyeing the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Randle is also a member of the New Zealand junior team that will compete in Australia at Easter.
By moving up a class Randle had to compete against Sydney Olympian Peter Ebden.
Randle was second ahead of Ebden but just behind eventual winner Andrew Russell in the senior recurve event.
In the compound senior women's shoot, Gail Legg was fourth while Craig MacRae was second overall in the junior compound.
During two-days' competition not all arrows hit the mark.
And how do the archers track stray arrows? With a metal detector of course. Arrows that miss their intended target and end up burrowed beneath the grass are easily picked up by the detector.