Any ideas for a novelty shot? Our club is hosting a 3D shoot this summer and just trying to get some ideas. Thanks
Metal targets with the vitals cut out are always a hoot.
I always like a good string shoot. Set of 5 or 6 targets. lay out a rope and you walk along the rope a pick your shot but you can backup. We do that and sometimes.
Just to add what Unclewhit said, I was at a shoot that had a metal deer with the vitals cut out. There was a marble drop associated with it. It had a piece of pipe on a couple of fence post set at a slight angle. You had to put the marble in the pipe, pull an arrow out of your quiver, nock and shoot before the marble fell into the bucket.
The best thing to do is to stand behind your buddy and drop a marble into the bucket just as he is ready to shoot!
Put up a white sheet of paper and shoot the flies that land on it.
We hooked a large surf rod to a Alligator target and pulled it across the cove of the lake.
Wand shoots are always fun. 2X4 on edge at long distance.
Apple on a dummy. This usually gets lots of oohs and aahs from the on lookers for low shots.
Anything that breaks Your Buddy's arrows!!!
Have fun.
bretto
I like the apple on a dummy idea Bretto. I think we have done the metal cut out and the timed shots, the wand...don't have any water for an alligator! I like that one too Butts!
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I kind of like this one.............
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Do a bank shot (safely) plywood bank board into a regular target.
ChuckC
a deck of cards face down on a piece of cardboard your score is wahatever the value of the card is that you it
This is a good novelty for just before or just after a shoot is over.
One that i like is a Milk jug shoot. You have a T post a piece of rope and 2 pullies. Pullies mounted on the ends of the T, single piece of rope through both pullies and hooks on each end of the rope. Fill up 2 milk jugs with water and hook one to each end of rope. Shoot from 10 yards. First jug to hit the ground looses.
Gather up 50 to 60 jugs. $3 to $5 dollors to enter. You can give a % of cash to winner and runner up and club keeps the rest. We have 3 rules: 1. You cant nock an arrow untill you get the go sign. 2. field points ONLY and arrow has to be fletched with at least 2 fletches. 3. First thing to hit the ground including arrows stuck in the jug and you loose.
Through up a running deer.
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Long shot --60-80 yards -- three arrows for a buck or whatever. Shooter gets his/her name in the bucket for every shot in the kill zone. At the end of the day, a winner is drawn for half the pot. Club keeps the other half.
take a shop vac. and stick the hose streight up and float a pingpong ball in the air stream, lots of fun
How about one of those old lady silhouettes bent over the flower bed things I see in peoples yards? Or any array of garden gnomes and pink flamingos would work. Have some fun and clean up the neighborhood.
I do like the milk jug idea. If it is windy balloons released on the ground are always fun.
I'll 2nd what wtpops said with the milk jugs, they are fun.
Ye Olde Fartes club in TN has one that messes me up every year..... It is a coon behind a short hollow log turned up end ways. You got to squat down, shoot thru the hollow log that is in front of a standing coon. One year I shot OVER the log by a foot !!! It is a close shot, about 10 yds total with the log halfway between you and the coon.
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Just thought of some others.
Teeter-Totter shot, shooter stands on a piece of plywood about 2' by 4' that has a 3" piece of pipe in the middle. The shot must be taken while board is off the ground.
Shot at a deer that had some flexable drain pipe wraped around it. The pipe had a foam head that looked like a snake. If you shot the head you got 5 points, snake body 3 points, and if you hit the deer you lost points.
One if the funnest I thought was a tree rat target. Life size foam squirrel velcroed to a tree.
see if i can explain this one. you have a baloon with a 8" ring tied to it with a short piece of string about 6 feet off the groung. with 2 man teams one person shoots the baloon and the other tries to shoot the ring before it hits the ground. timeing is every thing on this one. does take a pretty large backstop but it sure is alot of fun.
Also our brother JC from GA hosts the northern zone shoot for the TBG in May and he usually has a running boar or bear shot. He has a rope strung down a small hollow on a slight decline and has the 3D target suspended from a 2X4 frame with rollers on top. The shooter is halfway down the hollow and is only allowed to shoot thru a window about 6 feet wide between two large trees.
Gravity supplies the power and speed for the target and simple to reset for the next shooter once you push the target back up the hollow. I should know, I had to push it back up the hill half a day for my son and his buds the first time they saw this shot ! Since the target runs down the hollow the opposite bank provides a unlimited backstop so no lost arrows.
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I like the laying down shots. Not good on a wet day though.
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A mini glo-stick (available at hell-mart in the fishing section, used for the end of fishing poles at night) stuck in the target butt at night. Butts should be in the woods or anywhere that is pitch black at night. They can be placed at different distances. It's not a hit unless the glo-stuff splatters.
Just sit back and watch those high-scoring gap shooters suffer! :D
I used to do a "turkey shoot" at our club.
Make a 4' X 4' wooden frame and cover it with cardboard. Cut a 12" X 12" opening in it just the right height for someone sitting on a 5 gallon bucket.
The shooter sits on the bucket and shoots through the opening at a turkey target. Just like shooting out of a blind.
Shot some golf balls today, they were on a piece of PVC pipe stuck in the ground and the golf ball just sets on top. Yuo can put them a different heights against a bank! Yardage can be what you think is fair or fun 5 yds. to 20yds. What ever you do have fun!!!!!!!
William Tell Shoot. Use a happy face baloon sitting in a yourgert container weighted with sand. Put an apple on the baloon. Costs something to get one shot. We play if you hit the apple you stay for the next round. If you miss clean your out. If you break the baloon it costs you 2 more bucks and your out.
Take a funnel, a section of conduit, a metal pan, and a marble.
Shooter must nock a arrow, drop the marble, draw and shoot before the marble reaches the pan.
Takes some playing with the length of the pipe but it can be a lot of fun.
Put a table tennis ball in the air stream of an hair dryer fixed to a table. Use 3 or 4 side by side in a row, about 1.5 feet distance. Protect the hair dryers with some material from damage. You can set a time limit,too. Distance about 8 yrds. Enter fee 3 shots 1 $, most hits get 50%, rest to the club.
If there are 2 having the same score, there is a side by side shootout at the same time. That puts up some pressure :-))
Use your regular targets but paint foot prints at eh stake so they have to stand in the foot prints..
Amazing the number of positions you can get people in.. Kinda a like the old "Twister" game
I read this with near tears in my eyes! That is some of the most twisted, diabolical, WONDERFUL stunts I've ever read.
One can bet there are going to be a spike in arrow sales this shoot season as many of these twisted tricks are employed around the country! :knothead: :rolleyes:
NOCams shot through hollow logs is a hoot! Need hollow log length about 2' min and 3' max . A "hollow" hole about 8" dia. really separates the folks who have paradox issues at close range. :)
One I enjoyed had 3 set up. On sawhorses at different heights... Everyone was scrunchin and stretchin either standing bent over or on their knees trying to get a straight line shot!
Other like that is where an old tree had a V through it at the base...and a buddy set up a groundhog target on the downhill side...you had to shoot through the base of the hollow V on the tree to hit the target... wild.
Good stuff. Now where are my "old" arrows should these tricks show up near me this year!? :)
Make a turkey target with its fan spread,put the bulls eye where the rectum is. Behind the card board put a bag of chocolate pudding stapled to the cardboard, this gets alot of laughs.
Thanks guys. Some of these are definitely possibilities! Nockinaround, now that IS twisted! lol