Markings, called crests, may be drawn on the arrows at the owner's discretion. However, the NAA requires that all arrows be marked with the owner's initials so that they can be unequivocally identified while embedded in the target. The Basics of Target Archery Archery is a sport in which the participant uses a bow to shoot arrows at a target which has ten concentric circles. The score of each arrow depends upon where it lands on the target. The highest score, a ten, is achieved by shooting an arrow into the center, or Bull's-Eye.
Scores go down from nine for the next circle out to one for the outermost circle.
Missing the target results in a score of zero for that arrow. For indoor compound archery, a ten is scored only when the arrow lands inside the inner ten ring. After each end of arrows is shot, the arrows are scored. Outdoor Most major outdoor target archery competitions in the U.S. follow the same format of a FITA Round followed by an Olympic Round. Scores are then totaled to determine seedings into the Olympic Round.