Here's an interim report from the first full day (Saturday) -- the only day I could attend.
Long version: This was my first Poke and Hope and I suspected it would be fun from reading about it. Was I ever wrong. "Fun" is a puny, almost pejorative, term to describe this fantastic event. Three separate, 20-target 3-D courses, in thick woods, just like what I hunt in. Animals ranged from bull elk and bull caribou, down through several black bears and whitetails, a pronghorn, a cougar, a wolverine (!), coyotes, porcupines, woodchuck (who must'a been lost in those thick woods . . . ), and most devilish of all -- a squirrel six feet off the ground and no backstop.
I missed a chance to shoot at "Turbo Hog" -- a boar on a cable. Good thing -- top two Hog shooters were Luke and Eli, brothers notorious for their success at local shoots. Winner was Luke . . . . the twelve year old; he's the older one!
Fabulous people on the courses and behind the scenes. Good, cheap eats, including a "lobstah dinnah" for $13.00, $20.000 with two lobsters. Primitive camping galore, including a full-size teepee brought by its owner, a guy who was flinging a dart from an atlatl later in the day.
Short version: If you have any chance to attend this event and you don't, you're nuts.
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