Many of you know that I live in a pretty remote area of Southwestern New Mexico, this is great for hunting but not so great when it comes to hitting the 3-D circuit. We used to have 3 maybe 4, 2-day shoots in the area, basically, all the people from the desert would come play in the Gila National Forest for the weekend. It was alot of fun because these shoots brought in archers from all over the Southwest. Unfortunately Fire Restrictions, Fuel Prices and a new NM Archery Tour has caused several of the local clubs to relocate there big shoots to a more central area of the state. Well, those are the reasons that are stated, personally I think alot of those clubs got tired of having there butts handed to them by the Silver City Crew :).

While I don't know if I would call Silver City a hot bed of archery I would say that there are alot of really good shooters from the area. In fact, there is shoot along the NM and AZ border that pulls about 2500 shooters every year and there is usually a few side bets going on between the NM and AZ shooters. While, I don't know the exact record I do know that the NM teams usually bring home a PILE of cash. Let me just say it, when it comes to busting foam there are A TON of better archers in my area than me, I would consider myself more of a student of the game, and my 12-ringing buddies would back me on that one.

This is what some of the course looks like. If you click on the picture you will get a larger view.

This weekend our local bow club, called the Mangus Bowmen, had a shoot to gauge interest in keeping the club going and to see if we had enough resources to hold our annual 2-day shoot in July. On Friday, we setup the course and we really had alot of people show up to help setup, it was great to see everybody pitch in.

To be honest, I wasn't real sure how many shooters were going to show up but that didn't matter. We were going to have fun no matter what the turn out was but after everybody got there we probably had about 60 people.

Here is Jose getting ready to shoot.

It was Jose's 3rd shoot, so we were shooting REALLY slow but it pays off because I can help him remember the basics and we can HAVE FUN. The guys at the shoot tease us because he is shooting $150 arrows out of a $20 bow. Stella and Marissa showed up a little later and they also busted some foam. The cool part is that Jose and I had already finished and they could have just backed out and not shot but I think Marissa is really enjoying archery.

Jose posing with our arrows.

Anyway you look at it we had a pretty good Saturday Morning.

If it is brown, it is down.

After the shoot we got everybody together to figure out what direction the club wanted to go. Well, it looks like we have going to have at least one more 1 day shoot and we will be having our annual 2-day shoot. Oh and I forgot to mention, it look like I am the new Vice-President.

Some more of the PJ's

Take Care...

J-

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Congrats "VP"
written by Toasteo, May 06, 2008

Looks like a great day for a shoot. I love the last picture with the mountains in the background. you should get a bowcast crew to come down for your two day shoot and see if they can give the silver city crew a run for their money.

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written by jamaro, May 09, 2008

It would be interesting to see how the guys would shoot...
And thank you for the VP congrats...
Take Care
jason

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