As hard as it is for you guys down south to get up here,it's also for me to travel (time wise and financially ) to events down there.
So,... my question is, if I have to pick just one archery event/ get together, to travel to, which one should it be?
The closest I've come to something like this is a 3D shoot on the Big Island once and Rod's clinic in Santa Fe 2 years ago. I am looking forward to someday meeting in person some of the names I see so often on TradGang.
I'm not looking for the biggest, but more the most interesting and fun and maybe with options to do something before/ after with my wife.
Can I get some opinions please, thanks.
I think ETAR Is the largest one on the east coast, you'll get to see many of the bowyers and craft people also and most of all me ! :scared:
Well you already missed Kalamazoo this past weekend, so I'd agree with above and say ETAR. Held at Denton Hill Ski Resort in Coudersport, PA. I'm lucky to have this right in my backyard.
It's a 4 day long shoot with so many vendors that you could probably spend the whole weekend shopping and still never see everything.
You can shoot your way up and around the various courses on the mountain, or you can ride the ski lift to the top for a few dollars and shoot your way down. It may not be the closest and others may have good suggestions on the western part of the state that might be just as big or fun, but I don't think anyone will try and steer you away from coming to Denton Hill.
Really is hard to beat.
Check out the Events and Gatherings forum if you haven't already. Trad Archers World is poised to release all kinda info on events.
If you planned to spend a whole week, the best I can think would be to come for Compton, fish my way up Lake Michigan and a bunch of its feeder blue ribbon trout streams, then hit the Michigan Traditiona Bowhunters Jamboree the following weekend. Best of all world there...crowds and vendors at Compton and laid back crowd FREE shooting to your hearts content on the best 2D and 3D courses I've seen.
The Professional Bowhunters Society (PBS) gathering is probably the best Non-shooting Bowhunting event you will EVER attend. The next gathering will be in March 2016 in St. Augustine, FL. This event is VERY wife friendly. My wife, who wants absolutely nothing to do with Bowhunting will be joining me, AT HER REQUEST. She wants to be with all the other ladies who have joined their husbands there, and warmer weather at that time of year is always welcome.
For shooting, I'm kinda partial to the GLLI (Great Lakes Longbow Invitational) held in Hastings, MI every August. Only Longbows are allowed, as you could of guessed from the name. If you want to be surrounded by nothing but Longbows and people with smiles and endless shooting opportunities, then make it to this event.
ETAR - You can shoot till your fingers bleed, see every bow imaginable, and spend as much money as your bank account or credit cards allow.
Terry Harris and friends put on a couple of events in Birmingham Alabama that are a lot of fun. The Spring Fling and the Howard Hill shoot with lots of venders. If you really want to compete, I would go to the Texas State Longbow shoot in Fort Worth, Texas. Both long trips if you are driving.
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ETAR - You can shoot till your fingers bleed, see every bow imaginable, and spend as much money as your bank account or credit cards allow.
Not to mention fishing and rafting in the area.
There is one out west I always enjoy pictures from but cannot remember the name.
Its something like high country shoot...
What do you want in an event? Vendors to look at stuff? K-zoo and Comptons are two that I know of. Comptons has more shooting than Kzoo, I think.
Shooting and great company? I'm biased. I would recommend the CTAS High Country Shoot in Colorado. Six 3D ranges (or is there more?), clout shoot, aerial targets, balloon shoot, water jug shoot, long distance field targets and the Colorado Rockies. Plus, you can help to stir the chili on Saturday night. It's in June.
You can attend the shoot and then there's plenty of fishing (not that you don't have enough in AK) as well as multiple national parks, forests, etc. to keep you hiking and enjoying life 'til your heart's content.
Five hundred or more like-minded individuals relaxing and shooting arrows. It's hard to beat.
We don't have the bugs that you've got, either. We have dust, instead. That's a whole different ballgame.
homebru
North American Longbow Safari is in Alberta this July It has been a great event
Homebru said all. High Country Shoot #1.
We don't get as many vendors as some of them but the Colorado Traditional Archers Society High Country Shoot is fantastic. Set in the middle of prime elk country it's hard to beat in my opinion! Nearby is Glenwood Springs and it has a lot of tourist attractions and Colorado River rafting trips etc. Closer to Denver there is casino gambling in the historic mining district towns of Central City and Black Hawk if that's of interest. Then the normal mountain ski area stuff.
I can vouch for Compton being a great time. We plan on attending the High Country Shoot this year. Looking forward to it.
Traditional IBO world at Twin Oaks, Tennessee
Well, now that I have read homebrew's post, mine seems kind of redundant!
X2 IBO Traditional. I like it even better at Twin Oaks.
Wow , lots of options and opinions. I'll have to get to work and do more research. Now it's like picking a new bow,.....which one? which one? :confused:
Where are you located? There are some good shoots in Co, Az, Tx, Ok, Mi, Ms, Al, all over the Country. Nm has some but they never had vendors when I lived there.
You really cant go wrong if you make a list, close your eyes and pick one.
For meeting up with a good group of TG members, The Baltimore Classic is an excellent shoot.....
But i gotta go 3X on Colorado's High Country shoot as being an outrageous experience. Fewer people but high quality shooting experience in beautiful mountains.....
ETAR is LARGE! A lot of vendors and a LOT of people. It's pretty country up in up state PA too.
The IBO at Twin Oaks in Tennessee is one i'd like to take in personally, but haven't made it yet.
Maybe I need to take a year off to just play Robin Hood and attend all of them :D