Yesterday was day one of this 3D shoot and the very first one I have ever been to.  It was very fun to shoot in it and not exactly what I had expected.  My light poundage bow did very well and it actually can shoot out to 60 yards pretty good.  I actually hit the buffalo out at that range with it!  The whole range setup is pretty cool, and with arrows flying all over the place at the same time it is amazing arrows don’t collide in flight.  I’m sure over time it does happen.  The folks who were there enjoying the day all had fun.

There sure could be more spectators to this event and perhaps as more and more people get into archery that will come to be.  In the meantime, we will just enjoy it as it is.

I don’t know how many shooters came out to this event, but the line was pretty full all day long.  With how the shoot has to be conducted I think I was on the line shooting for about 3 hours.  Maybe less, but it did take quite awhile.  The spectators that were there all had someone they were watching participate and that was interesting to watch as well.  The first shooting station is WAYYYYY down at the far end of the picture above this statement and as the shooting progresses, the shooters move down toward the close end of this picture.  25 stations in all.  The spectators worked their way down the bleachers along with the shooters.  Heckling and fun was had all along the way.  Friends and family all out for a good time!  Some very serious shooters and a ton of not so serious shooters.  I had to be one that was not so serious because I sure shot a lot of dirt….actually….I killed the dirt real good!

Once the shooters shot their two shots each, they closed the line and everyone went down to retrieve their arrows and score their targets (at least those who were actually scoring, some were just shooting to be shooting and having fun doing it).  People were criss-crossing all over the arena because of the way it was set up.  It was fun no matter.

If you are reading this and want to come out and see what it is all about, please do.  You won’t regret it!  They have a food vendor there that does smoked food…..even smoked pizza!  I’ve never heard of smoked pizza, but they came and gave us a sample of it and it was wonderful!  They also have smoked pulled pork and rib sandwiches….YUMMY STUFF!  A couple of other vendors are there selling archery related gear as well!  The Brigham Bowmen are raffling off some very cool stuff and they have a fun shoot going on where you can play to win tickets for a great bow sight they are giving away.  Shoot an arrow through a hole in a big metal plate and you get 5 tickets towards winning that sight.  Or shoot and hit a clay pigeon and win a ticket for it as well.  I’ll tell you right now, there were a LOT of arrows that didn’t make it through that hole!  BOING!  $6 down the tube!  Arrows are not cheap!  But there were a lot of folks that could thread that arrow right down that hole with no problem….not me!  My arrows are sacred to me.  I will be shooting at the clay birds though.  If I win the sight I won’t have any reason to keep it as it doesn’t fit on a traditional bow.

No matter if you are interested in archery or not, you should treat yourself by coming out and seeing what these folks are doing!  Weasel is shooting for score today and I hope he wins some cash.  It will cost him $30 to shoot for the money.  He will have to do better today than he did yesterday in order to win anything, but he posted up a pretty impressive score yesterday even at that.  FUN!  I ended up with a 230 score (possible 600)!

Scoring went like this:  Hit the red dot on the target and get 12 points.  Any hit in the kill zone got you 10 and a hit anywhere else on the target got an 8.  My first two targets were dirt balls and the third I bounced one in to the leg for a solid 8.  Then another zero followed by 3 8’s in a row!  I was getting hot at that point!  With a ton of luck I hit the kill zone for a 10 on target number 8!  Number 9 was another leg hit and target 10 I hit two kill zones!  That wouldn’t happen again until target number 25, where I scored two 10’s on the carp!  It is hard to imagine not getting 10’s at targets less than 10 feet away!

Well, I’ll end this with my favorite picture of the whole day and probably the whole event.  I don’t know who the gentleman was that brought his young son out, but there is something to be said about a young shooter enjoying the day.  He shot 6 arrows at every target as he went along with his dad.

THIS IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT FOLKS!

Bears Butt

March 1, 2015