I am very lonely up here in Central City, Iowa and am wondering how many of you live around here.  I have a budy that shoots trad, but he lives in Dubuque and we shoot just a few times a year.  Anyone ever want to get together there is a great place in Anamosa IA that would house a fine get together.

There is a great trad shoot Memorial Weekend at Ames with the ITBS.  Great shoot, camping, food, and same great vendors.  Check it out!!  
 Another at Wapello Chiefs in Ottumwa on July 3rd and 4th.  
 I think the Izaak Walton in Otumwa puts on a trad shoot too, although I don't have the dates for this years shoot, have to ask Bowmac. My daugther and I shot it one year and it was a great shoot!

I unfortunetly work in a park and have to patrol campgrounds on those weekends...worst weekends of the year for trouble makers   :(  I've wanted to go to the ITBS shoot for 3 years now, but havent been able too due to work
Ill do some checking on the Jefferson county!

If you are ever down in SE Iowa, you are also always welcome to shoot with me.  I still have one turkey tag left to fill this weekend, but other than that, I am always looking for company.  Stumps beware!

Good luck and will do! Hopefully you arent having tag soup this weekend  :D

There's more Iowans on here than the two of us  

Zach i'm down in Mt. Vernon not to far from you I am going to Ames this and also to Compton.

doug77

I am from Ankeny (few miles north of Des Moines)

Baiting bears in Wyoming this week.

quite a few of us in the Mason City area, if you are ever around

I'm a long ways north of you...even north of Mason City a few miles, so Anamosa is quite a stretch for me. There are quite a few Iowans on here, but we're kind of scattered across the state.

IaHunter, you must be kind of a lurker with only three posts since 2008    :eek:

Boy, Jefferson County (Fairfield) Traditional shoot must be a sleeper, i have lived and Bowhunted here all my life up too now and this is news to me? Have to check in on that myself. Was hoping to make the Ames shoot last two years and this year as well, but something always prevents it. This year it's paying high medical bills for Greywolfs broken leg. And having to barely survive like always. Target along the river is always open down here for guests.

Id really like to go to ames...i hear its a blast! It seems like its a long drive anywhere too shoot with a fellow trad brother  

Mr. Vic, I think I mixed that up.  It is the club that Court belongs to, not the one in fairfield.  I should have said the Izaak Walton league in Ottumwa, I think.  I will have to ask Bowmac (Court) if they are having that shoot again.  It was a great shoot!  Maybe he will chime in here.

Ok Lefty, yep i bet your right. Ottumwa always has one every year. Walked that course a few times and it's got a few hills. I got this from there website Tonight                                                                                          Wapello Bowmen.                                (Our Traditional Shoot will be a little different this year.  It will be for traditional only shooters on Friday, July 2nd and Saturday, July 3rd.  We will open it up to traditional and compound shooters on Sunday, July 4th.  We will post the hours when it gets closer to the dates.) And hope ole Court does chime in I need another small wool sash from him...

The Izaak Walton shoot in Ottumwa is not the same as the wapello chief bowmens shoot.  The Wapello Chief Bowmen put on a great shoot.  I have not been to the Izaak Walton shoot and believe it is only a twenty target course.

I will be out of town for the Ames shoot this year.  Will have to look into the SE Iowa shoots.  Sounds like fun!  Was just driving down HWY 34 this past weekend.

I`m from the far north Iowa, back in the 80s and early 90s travel all over Iowa going to 3-d shoots, my fovorites were Toddville, Waverly,Eldora,Blackhawk archers Waterloo,Riceville,Hampton, elkader,Mason City, I also was on the board of Directors of the Iowa Bowhunters Assn.in 1985, going to these shoots to promote the IBA, now I don`t belong to anything I just set up here waiting for the grim reaper to pay me a vist.

My Trad Buddy and I are in Cedar Rapids and would love to get together to shoot    

Either Anamosa or out at Waltonians are some great spots.......we are headed to Ames for the shoot next weekend, it will be our first time there so where looking forwared to it    

I know the President of the Anamosa Archery CLub and hes a great guy......Adom lives right down the road form the Club and said anytime I want to shoot to just call him and he would go too.......Hes also a fellow Trad brother