Jealous about all the trad. shoots back east

[moththerlode]

The problem with California is we could could cross three Eastern state lines in the time to get to one LOL

[Aunty]

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.

[gregg dudley]

quote:Originally posted by Killdeer:
Rough audience, huh.
Killdeer    

[old_goat2]

Originally 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

[old_goat2]

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:)

[NW Jamie]

What if you don't even have stumps? Here in the desert stumps are hard to find. LOL

[buckeye_hunter]

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.

[old_goat2]

Originally posted by NW Jamie:
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.

[Archie]

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.

[Killdeer]

Sometimes I think I would be safer in Alaska...

 
 
Killdeer    

[adkmountainken]

even when there's not, there IS...... constantly stump shooting here with big groups.

[PaddyMac]

Originally posted by Killdeer:
Rough audience, huh.
Killdeer      

           

I would join the grass-is-greener chorus, except where I was turkey hunting yesterday, there was still snow...

[old_goat2]

Originally posted by PaddyMan
 

Originally posted by Killdeer:
Rough audience, huh.
Killdeer      

                 

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!

[Red Beastmaster]

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

[Scott Teaschner]

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     .

I dont know what do you think? Any one intrested?
Scott Teaschner

[Ryman Cat]

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.

[rdoggsilva]

Originally posted by centaur:
I'll just tough it out in Wyoming      

Fill your pain, have to live in Utah