Wow, what a great time. The shoot was well run, the staff was cool and easily to deal with and the host club was outstanding. Josh and I had a blast other than a rest linkage malfunction that Josh had. This isn't your average 3D course.. Life sized Elephant, Rhino, Giraffe etc. Stuff you would never see at any archery club shoot. It was much more fun than any IBO national shoot that I ever went to. If you have never done this event, it is a must do. I regret never making the time to shoot one in the past. Even got an R1000 pin for shooting over 1000 points on the course Onto the photos of some of the targets. This is only a small sample of the targets offered. Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk
I can't wait until the Illinois shoot. I just hope it isn't 100 degree's out that weekend. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
This one was really cool. For the apple target, if you choose to not shoot you got 12 points, if you shot and missed you got 14, if you shot and hit it (grazing didn't count, had to embed your arrow into it) you got 24 points. Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk
Plus, I almost accidentally shot some dude's windshield out, but that's another story. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sounds like a great time and a cool shoot. Wish one came close enough to me. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
It's definitely worthy of a weekend road trip, if it's ever within a reasonable driving distance. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
More details Everything is marked yardage, 50 yards max. They use IBO rings scored 12, 10, 8, 5. There were quite a few women shooters, as well as a lot of kids. I did not see any crossbows at the event but did see a few recurve bows. There were bowhunting.com stickers laying around the practice range. The African course had a lot more shooters than the North American course. I believe they said there were around 600 shooters at the event. I shot the African course better (536) than the North American course (532) but most of the other top finishers shot the North American course better. The scores may not look that much different at a glance, but I got the 12 point bonus for hitting the apple on the North American course, there are no bonus points on the African course. I finished 7th on the African course, 15th on the North American course that combined for 6th for the bowhunter class. The apple shoot was fun to watch others shoot while waiting your turn. This target is a little bit of a bottle neck as it is a double target. You shoot the deer and apple one after the other. So it was a bit of a pressure cooker shot having 2 dozen people staring at you while you take aim on the apple. It's kind of funny as everyone is talking and laughing then soon as you draw your bow on the apple everyone goes silent.... It took a while to figure out what happened to Josh when he started hitting WAY low on his shots. Took at least 20 to 30 targets... One of the targets when he was at full draw I just happened to glance at his rest and could tell that his Apache rests launcher arm was not up all the way. Somehow the serving and his linkage cord slid up his cable not bringing his launcher arm all the way up. I fixed it for him and he was good to go again.
Awesome, looks like such a blast!!!! I'm trying to make it to the R100 shoots in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in June and July!
It took a while, because you were standing on the wrong side of me. (Southpaw struggles!!) Seriously though, what a relief it was when you solved the puzzle, and thanks again for fixing it. I was just starting to relive the memory of my epic meltdown in Erie, PA, back in the HNI days!
Lol.. ok. My original statement was a bit of an exaggeration, but the short version is this... After my mysterious equipment failure -but before Scott diagnosed & fixed what turned out to be my arrow rest cord- I was shooting severely low on the last 8-10 targets of day 1 (we're talking 50 yard pin hitting low on 30 yard targets). So I scrapped my scoring concerns and simply attempted to compensate (think "wild a** guess! Lol) and just hit vitals on the final targets. So... on the last target, I did this little maneuver where I take my finger off the trigger and back off my anchor point to readjust and get my head together... but my finger somehow ended up back on the trigger and off she went lol. Only God knows where that arrow went, but it definitely sailed very high. So as we approached the target to pull Scott's arrow, I realized that through about a 20 yard strip of trees, was the friggin parking lot!! Man, my heart skipped a couple beats at that moment, but Scott was quick to point out that we never heard a scream or any kind of unnatural sounding crash lol.. thank God! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
nice, looks like fun. i'll have to look up when and where the next shoot is. i have time now!!!!! RETIRED on 1/14/17 at the age of 50, now 51 as of may
Yeah brother!! 20 years, 2 months, and 19 more days, and I'm right there with ya! Lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
