2025 Texas Ringer Rules

70% of your division's entry fees go toward prize money!

Prize money is based on the entry fee, minus processing fees, and is rounded to the nearest $5.

PAYOUT PERCENTAGES BY DIVISION SIZE:

1-2 archers: 1st 80% 2nd 20%

1-3 archers: 1st 65% 2nd 25% 3rd 10%

4+ archers: 1st 50% 2nd 30% 3rd 20%

Qualification Rounds are Friday and Saturday. 

Qualification rounds will be 12 ends of 5 arrows for a total of 60 arrows scored. Archers will have 4 minutes to shoot their 5 arrows.

Two official practice rounds will occur prior to the start of each qualification round. There will be no open practice in the competition range. Practice passes may be purchased for $10/day or $20/weekend (starts Friday at 3pm). Practice passes will include one Texas Ringer target per day.

The (Adults top 16 )and (17U Top 8 )archers from each division advance to the elimination rounds on Sunday. 13U will only have qualifications.

Bracket play will be used: (Adult) Round of 16, (17U) Round of 8, Round of 4 (for finals seeding only – all archers in the round of 4 will shoot in the Finals), and Finals

Finals will be held (17U Saturday) (Adult Sunday) afternoon live on the platforms and will consist of a 3^rd place match and a championship match.

Open Divisions (Male/Female Shoot Together)

13 Under (If you are 13 or younger, you shoot in this division)

17 Under (If you are 17 or younger, you shoot in this division)

Adult (18 years and older)

Archers may choose to shoot in a higher division.

If there is only 1 archer in your division, you will be moved up to the next division

Recurve

·       Recurve Archers may use stabilizers and adjustable sights.

·       No magnification is allowed in the sight.

·       No mechanical release aids are allowed.

·       Archers must use fingers, a glove, or finger tab to hold the string.

Recurve Barebow (if it has wheels it’s a compound)

·       This equipment class is reserved for recurve bows with no sights.

·       An arrow rest, arrow plate, and cushion plunger are allowed, but a clicker, draw check, and level are prohibited. 

·       Weights may be added to the lower part of the riser.

·       The entire unstrung bow much be able to pass through a 12.2 cm ring.

·       “String walking” is allowed in this class.

·       No mechanical release aids are allowed. Archers must use fingers, a glove or finger tab to hold the string.

Freestyle Compound

·       Any type of sights or stabilizers are allowed in this class, as long as the rear stabilizer does not touch the archer’s body.

Bowhunter Freestyle Compound

·       Bows in this class are limited to five fixed pins in the sight with no magnification and a front stabilizer no more than 12 inches long as measured from the bow's riser. (For example, any quick release connectors that would be attached to the bow and all stabilizer weights or vibration dampening attachments would be included in the 12-inch maximum length.)

·       No modifications to the sight, peep, draw weight, or other related equipment on the bow is allowed once scoring begins.

Traditional

·       No metal risers

·       No string walking

·       No sights

·       Recurve, Long Bow, Asiatic Bow (max 12" stabilizer)

·       Carbon, aluminum or wood arrows are acceptable.

·       Shooters must straddle the shooting line

·       An end will be composed of 5 arrows with a time limit of 4 minutes

·       An archer may shoot all five arrows into the same spot on a 5-spot target and they will all still score.

·       The qualification round will be composed of 12 scoring ends

·       After 6 ends, the bottom shooters change to the top target and the top shooters change to the bottom target.

·       There will be two official practice ends before each qualification round.

For qualifications: Tie breakers will be determined by who has more 7's. If still tied, highest number of 6's. Still tied, there will be a 1 arrow shoot off or a coin flip depending on availability of archers.

For eliminations: Tie breakers will be determined by a 1 arrow shoot off, closest to the center. (Cannot determine winner, reshoot closest to the center)

·       The scoring area values will be 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.

·       On the 5-spot target face, the only scoring values are 7, 6, 5, and 4. An arrow not touching a scoring area will be scored as a Miss.

·       The 7 will be an arrow entirely inside the center area without touching the line.

·       The 6 will be an arrow that touches the blue line around the center area.

·       The line that separates the scoring area will be entirely in the higher scoring area (i.e., all the arrow must do is touch the line for the higher score) except for the center area, which is scored as indicated above.

·       An archer who shoots more than five arrows at the target will lose the arrows of higher value in that end. A penalty of one point is assessed for each arrow shot over the prescribed number of arrows. The penalty point comes only after the extra arrow/arrows are shot.

·       Shoot off format (Adult Round of 16), (17U Round of 8), Round of 4)

·       The winners of the two matches in the Round of 4 will advance to the Championship Finals match, and the losers of the two Round of 4 matches will advance to the 3^rd Place Finals match.

·       Each round will be composed of 3 scoring ends

·       An end will be composed of 5 arrows with a time limit of 4 minutes

·       Top score moves on

·       Ties are determined by one arrow shoot off closest to the center (Cannot determine winner, reshoot closest to the center)

·       Shoot off format (Finals)

·       The round will be composed of 3 scoring ends

·       An end will be composed of 5 arrows

·       Shooting format will be alternating shots

·       Each archer receives 20 seconds to shoot each arrow

·       Top score wins

·       Ties are determined by one arrow shoot off closest to the center (Cannot determine winner, reshoot closest to the center)

·       All finals will consist of a 3^rd place match and a Championship match unless there are less than 4 archers in the division.

·       Divisions with 3 archers will advance straight into a shoot up format (no elimination rounds), with seed 3 vs seed 2 and the winner of this match advancing to the Championship match against seed 1.

·       Divisions with only 2 archers will advance straight to a Championship match with no elimination rounds.