I live in Colorado, we might have 3 or 4 trad. shoots a year. Its seems back East and Southeast there are trad. shoots all the time; year around. I wished Colorado was the same.
I wish we had the solitude that Colorado offers. Wanna trade?
I have 4 different shoots within 30 miles. One for every weekend of the month. Some guys shoot multiple shoots in a day. My boys are trying to talk me into skipping turkey for a shoot this weekend.
I wish I could say I felt sorry for you having to live so close to all those elk. :D
Rob
Rough audience, huh.
Killdeer :knothead:
3-D shoots are nice, good fellowship and some good story telling, as well as fun.
But I'll take a day of stumpin' in the Mountains, good for the soul..!
If you have both that much better
Around here we have a 3-D shoot within an hours drive just about every Sunday of the year. And we attend them too.
Britt, I'll trade ya a couple trad shoots for an Elk Hunt:)
Sure I'll trade you, I'v been hunting elk for 16yrs with a bow and haven't shot one yet!!!
We do have a lot of 3Ds in this part of the country (SE). For some reason there are not many in August or September, they seem to stop in July.
Lots of shoots in this neck of the woods, That being said I saw more game in Colorado in a week than I see here in a year. Like Tater said ...you should just go stumping in the high country and have some fun.
I with ya britt. The closest all trad 3D shoot I know of is basically in Mizzou. I don't know of anything in the Denver area but that would be closer. I'm in the process of trying to get a 3D course going, but it's going to be a mix of compounds and traditional. Wish I could keep it trad, but just not enough people around here that shoot trad. The thing I REALLY want to attended is a trad banquet. You here about Baltimore, Kalamazoo, ect. I just think it would be awesome to be able to handle a bow without having to buy it first. Oh well I've got some good hunting and solitude here in NW KS. I'll keep that :D
I'll just tough it out in Wyoming :bigsmyl:
QuoteOriginally posted by Roy from Pa:
Britt, I'll trade ya a couple trad shoots for an Elk Hunt:)
I was thinking the same thing.
Over-the-counter elk tags.........Awesome!
We don't have many more trad only 3D shoots than you. The only ones I know of are the ones that the KTBA has. And I think they have around 5 or 6 a year. It's a 2 hour drive for us so I don't get to attend more than one or two a year. So, we usually hit the local 3D shoots that the wheelie guys put on. Still lots of fun when you get a few trad buds to go with. I usually go to the local shoots with my two sons and our trad bows. We have a great time with just the 3 of us.
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I'll just tough it out in Wyoming :bigsmyl:
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: I feel for ya!!
Organize one!
I will say, there's nothing like spending the day with friends shooting whether its 3d or stumps.
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We do have it pretty good here in PA.
I do like Tater does and just hit the mountains for a stump shoot...right now it's turkey season so I just stump my way back to camp.
It is fun getting together for shoots, though!
I'd give me eye teeth to get back to Colorado and float the upper Rio Grande with my fly rod in September. To hunt elk around Craig again. To go ski the slopes in Steamboat. To attend another sales convention in Breckinridge. To shoot in the Rocky Mountain Highpower Championship in Raton (OK that's NM...but its right over the border) To get stationed again at Fort Carson.
Anyone can organize a 3d shoot... But to have all that at your back door? Ahhhhhhhh Shoulda stayed.
I with you on this on. Never any here in Utah.
There are a ton of trad shoots here in California-you could be going to one every week end if you had the time. Personally I'd rather be out there enjoying nature and chasing a few hogs; but it is nice to be able to choose I guess.
The problem with California is we could could cross three Eastern state lines in the time to get to one LOL
I have never been to a all trad shoot in my life. I get one 3d shoot a year, I like to stump shoot though when i am hunting rabbits pratice is what you make it i guess.
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Originally posted by Killdeer:
Rough audience, huh.
Killdeer :saywhat:
QuoteOriginally posted by snakebit40:
I with ya britt. The closest all trad 3D shoot I know of is basically in Mizzou. I don't know of anything in the Denver area but that would be closer. I'm in the process of trying to get a 3D course going, but it's going to be a mix of compounds and traditional. Wish I could keep it trad, but just not enough people around here that shoot trad. The thing I REALLY want to attended is a trad banquet. You here about Baltimore, Kalamazoo, ect. I just think it would be awesome to be able to handle a bow without having to buy it first. Oh well I've got some good hunting and solitude here in NW KS. I'll keep that :D
Salthawk archery club in Hutchinson has a trad only shoot, this was second year of it. Two day shoot with vendors and camping. It's held first part of April
I read once that 85% of the archers in the US live east of the Mississippi just stands to reason there is more events of all kinds there. Not worth the trade in my opinion. Not many places out there where you can scout for elk and deer and hunt turkeys at the same time:)
What if you don't even have stumps? Here in the desert stumps are hard to find. LOL
I love all the shoots we have here. I should take advantage of more of them! Shame you don't have more. I can see why you would miss them.
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What if you don't even have stumps? Here in the desert stumps are hard to find. LOL
When I lived in the Mojave Desert, I always just used to go East of town and shoot at trash that the hurricane force winds deposited in the desert, seemed to be an unlimited supply of milk jugs and plastic pop bottles, that was back in the early 90's before I knew it was called stumping. Here in Colorado you will play hell finding many rotten stumps either, we usually just pick tufts of grass or flowers in the meadows to shoot at, mole hills work well too.
I would not bat an eye at missing 3-D shoots if I could go live near wild country again. I grew up in interior Alaska, and now live an hour from Chicago.
Sometimes I think I would be safer in Alaska...
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Killdeer :scared:
even when there's not, there IS...... constantly stump shooting here with big groups.
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Rough audience, huh.
Killdeer :knothead:
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I would join the grass-is-greener chorus, except where I was turkey hunting yesterday, there was still snow...
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QuoteOriginally posted by Killdeer:
Rough audience, huh.
Killdeer :knothead:
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
I would join the grass-is-greener chorus, except where I was turkey hunting yesterday, there was still snow... [/b]
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You have to make lemonade when your dealt lemons, I had a small drift of snow in front of my stand the other day, I buried my can of coke in it and had a frosty cold beverage with my lunch!
From my little corner of PA:
4.5hrs to ETAR at Denton Hill, 3hrs to BBTC in Baltimore, 4hrs to ATAR in Beckly WV, less than 4hrs to at least a dozen more trad only rendezvous in Ohio, WV, MD, and PA.
I guess it's a good problem to have. I can't go to all of them and have to plan my vacation days and gas money to hit only a few each year.
I don't know what they have in the east but here in TX we have a lot of Trad Only events. The Traditional Bowhunters of Texas hosts all trad shoots around the state from January till Sept and there are several other orgs that host all trad shoots too. They are definitely a blast.
Good luck in getting some more up your way.
Bisch
Rod Jenkins is coming to my place in the end of June. Which had got me thinking since it filled up so quick maybe next year we can do it again and try to do something a little bigger. The problem with the west which to me is not a problem is big country and low population! Wyoming has more antelope than people and less people than Alaska. But we are used to traveling every thing is spread out. Cody is an hour and a half from the interstate and Billings Montana where most people go for big shoping.
I thought a shoot and vendor show in the honor of Ned Frost, Saxton Pope and Art Young would be cool. Ned Frost was a guide from Cody who took the two men in Yellowstone National Park with special permision to collect Grizzly bear specimens for the California Acadamey Of Sciences. The Grizzly bears they took are still on display. I think the rugged country around Cody would offer a great shoot. With giving people a great chance to see some new country and possibly become bear bait :biglaugh: .
I dont know what do you think? Any one intrested?
Scott Teaschner
I think there may be a few that would trade places for out west. We have it good and the shoots are in good locations also but I think I'd rather live closer to the Rookies than in amoung all the states and the populace. You go to a shoot and you forget about it all until you get home. Then you think about the next one next month and who's going where with the people you meet along the way.
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I'll just tough it out in Wyoming :bigsmyl:
Fill your pain, have to live in Utah :goldtooth: