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Archers Mourn Loss of Coach, Leader and Friend Wheaton, Illinois - Junior Olympic Archery (JOAD) coach Don Branson (Wheaton, 111.) passed away Friday from congestive heart failure, which was a result of complications from a battle with the rare disease amyloidosis. As a coach, NAA board member, archer and friend, Branson left his mark on archery through his dedication and leadership to the sport. Some of Branson's major contributions included the strengthening of the National Archery Association's (NAA) youth programs, serving as a Board Member and coaching many young archers. As a JOAD coach he made students believe in the power of hard work through continuous encouragement to persevere. Ron Carmichael stated that one of the most effective and memorable principles Branson abided by was, “one arrow does not an archer make." Through constant dedication and more shooting. Branson believed success would come. Neil Foster said, “Don was a good friend, and one of the strongest advocates of our JOAD program." From inside jokes, to constructive criticism and from patience to motivating drive, Branson was influential to many archers and will continue to be in the future as his athletes continue his legacy in archery. Memorial Service The Branson family extended an invitation to all those who have been part 186
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International Field Archery Association News By Ken Rogers
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One of my main concerns during the past seven plus years in the office of IFAA President, has been to bring some knowledge of the IFAA to all who read my columns In particular I have attempted to bring to the NFAA-USA. a sense of belonging to the IFAA. The largest national affiliate of the IFAA is the NFAAIFAA. However, the size of the NFAA has not been equal to its representation on the International level. This can be evidenced in the attendance in the recent IFAA World Bowhunling Championship held in Illinois during June. The registrations from overseas nations outnumbered those from our NFAA archers here at home. In the 3-D Inaugural Championship held in Australia during April of this year, not one American was registered. In 1999. the IFAA Bowhunling Championships were held in Germany. A record number of 1200 archers attended and shot the tournament. Of those, only one American was included. I only mention these facts not as a recrimination but simply as facts that disappoint me as an American, as a Past President of the NFAA and as an American who happens to serve as President of the International Field Archery Association. It will probably be my only sense of personal failure when the time comes for me to leave IFAA office. In the past day or so, 1 have received a copy of an article written by Mr. Gil Bocnig. a Past President of the NFAA. It appeared in Archery magazine during 1970 and. its subject dealt with the formation of the IFAA Mr Boenig was one of the chief participants in the formation of the IFAA and it is interesting now, to read his words of insight after such a lapse of time. Mr. Bocnig was invited to address the NFAA Board of Directors in 1995 and he took great delight in doing so. He spoke of the NFAA of his times and in particular, of NFAA's participation in forming the IFAA. Mr. Boenig passed away soon after that meeting and with him went a great knowledge of the NFAA and IFAA. 1 am presenting his article here not only as a matter of historical interest but. in hopes that it will bring some sense of understanding to NFAA's role and membership in the IFAA. Please note: The First IFAA Championship was not held in England as indicated but, in Sweden July 25-31 near Stockholm We can only assume it was a change in venue. Kind Regards - until next issue. Ken Rogers 283 Carlson Dr. Midway Park. NC 28544 (910)353-7181 FAX (603)368-8582
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INTERNATIONAL FIELD ARCHERY ASSOCIATION by Gilbert Boenig, Secretary Significant events afTccting history sometimes are accompanied by spectacular headlines and their effect is immediately known or sometimes they go by with little attention until their impact becomes reality. On August 7, 1970 in Heidelberg, Germany. seven nations banded together to form and begin operation of the International Field Archery Association. In my opinion, this newly-formed association, is the first major step proponents of field archery have taken since their original break-away in 1939 which brought into being the National Field Archery Association. As of this writing, the International Field Archery Association has seven member nations represented by seven independent national field archery associations. These countries are as follows: Sweden, Germany, England. Scotland. Wales, Canada and the United States. Within the next few months it is anticipated this number will increase to twelve. An additional member, serving in an advisory capacity, is the Archcry Association of Europe. The NFAA officers, Councilmen and Directors have been aw’are and have been working to achieve an international organization for field archers in cooperation with the Archery Association of Europe and archers of the various European countries. Many hours, including personal expense, have gone into making a four-year-old idea become a reality. There have been some vague reports to archers in Archery Magazine, however, to archers in general, I realize the International Field Archery Association is something new. Many questions will enter your mind and it is hoped the balance of this message will answer most of them. If not, please feel free to address any inquiry to me at the above address. Before we go any further and before any doubts are raised, it must be understood the theory and the programs of the IFAA have the support of the Officers and Directors of the NFAA. These individuals have very carefully evaluated the needs of field archery and have concluded an international organization is to the best interests of field archery. Since some readers may take offense to the pretense of certain remarks which follow. I need to explain my involvement with NFAA in an official capacity began in 1961, ending in 1968, so their basis is from active experience. Continued on page 190.
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Entry: This Match is intended to promote National and International participation, and is open to all non-professional archers! Oates: To be shot from 1 January 2002 through 30 April 2002. The objective is to have Round One completed not later than 28 February, Round Two not later than 31 March, and Round Three not later than 30 April 2002. Scores may be submitted as soon as completed, but all scores must be transmitted (e-mailed, faxed or postmarked) to the Mail Match Coordinator not later than 30 April 2002. The final results will be posted on the IFAA website not later than 1 June 2002.
Round: Standard IFAA Indoor Round. For rules, see WIAC "Rules" page at the IFAA website, or page 26 of the IFAA Book of Rules (2001-2002 Edition). Remember. (1) the arrow shaft must cut through the line to score the higher value, and (2) Cubs now shoot at 10 yards Divisions: Four Divisions are recognized Adult (age 17 and older) Cub (underage 13). Junior (age 13-16), and Veteran (age 55 and older)
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The NFAA through the years has taken an ostensive attitude of cooperation with all phases of archcry only to find an aristocratic response from one group with little consideration for the largest group of archers organizationally What had been discovered in America in 1939. now dawns on archers in other countries of the world. Field archcry is more appealing and interesting and these archers also have determined field archery should be an independent sport and they will not accept the dictates of a body which has copied the NFAA programs of 1960 and now is ambitious enough to capitalize without regard to rules of ethics. Field archcry docs not desire to dictate the doctrines of other types of archery. However, there can be no true spirit of cooperation with any other group until they accept the fact field archery must be governed by field archers, and it is the full intent of the NFAA not to sacrifice its principles to any other minority group. The International Field Archery Association has been organized for the purpose of providing for the needs of archers throughout the world who prefer and want the type of game the NFAA instituted and continues to offer. The NFAA is a United States association and for this reason can not achieve recognition by any other country as an international organization. Therefore, it becomes necessary for the NFAA to relegate its status to a national association representing the interests of the United States field archers. This, in turn, brings about the need to form an international association composed of national field archery associations from subscribing countries.
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PACIFIC REGION FIELD ARCHERY CHAMPIONSHIP (PFAC-2001) 21-25 November 2001 Hosted by New Zealand Field Archcry Assn. Auckland. New Zealand
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A question occurs at this point. Will the IFAA dictate the rules of the game and. in particular, control the internal affairs of the NFAA? It is possible that sometime in the future, national associations will find, or rather desire to, arbitrate in a world body the general rules of shooting the various field games. This is not the purpose of the IFAA as there is a specific provision which pennits field games, and the administration thereof, to be placed in the hands of the individual country. However, sanctioned IFAA competition, special IFAA tournaments, and the World Championship Tournament, must be conducted in conformance with IFAA rules. In no way does the IFAA imply or intend to regulate the internal affairs of any nation as it relates to the administration of field archery in accordance with the desires and needs of that particular nation. The IFAA can hope to achieve the following goals: First of all. provide a true international organization for field archery, thereby permitting the interest in field archery to prosper and grow independent of any other group. Secondly, we can expect standardization of the rules of the game with each nation closely conforming to the IFAA rules. Finally, IFAA will conduct a World Championship Tournament for field archers. The first World Championship Tournament will be held in England in September, 1971*. Any archer, if finances permit. may participate in the tournament for championship honors provided he/she is a member in good standing with a member national field archery association. In addition, the tournament will not be restricted to one class, one style, or one sex. The tournament will be conducted under the old system of various classes with separation of bare-bow, freestyle and bowhunter. In connection with the tournament, archers can anticipate an elimination system whereby some six to eight archers will receive expense-paid fares to the tournament. The cost of this program will not be bome by the IFAA. but it is hoped NFAA can provide such an incentive through a voluntary fund drive. The tournament is not a conjecture - it is a fact. The details arc not complete, but will be published as soon as they have been finalized. The newly elected officers of the IFAA. who will serve for two years, are as follows: Ben G. Brunsson, Sweden, president. Dalskog. 46070 DalsRostock, Sweden. J. Fuller. England, vice president, 7 West Close, West Road, New Costessey, Norwich NFK. Gilbert Boenig, United States, Secretary, 501 N. Main. San Antonio, Texas 78206. The NFAA has accepted and encourages the IFAA concept. The IFAA constitution and by-laws will be available shortly and anyone desiring a copy may receive one by addressing the IFAA secretary and enclosing 50 cents to cover cost. The field archers of the United States have one commitment, either individually or as a group through the NFAA. The objective is for each member nation to contribute for posterity one bowl or trophy for the World Championship Tournament. These awards will be given to the individual but placed in custody of the national association the archer represents. It is my suggestion any one interested in making a contribution send the donation to the NFAA Secretary in Redlands, California explaining what it is for. The meeting of the seven member countries was held in conjunction with the annual European Field Archery THE U.S. and INTERNATIONAL ARCHER
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The 56 field, 56 hunter and 28 animal produced some fine scores. The tournament was topped off with an annual banquet on Saturday night attended by the entire group of participants. It was a wonderful experience to find so many nations represented with some language barriers and a background of different ground rules, join together without problems regarding rules. The tournament was conducted with NFAA rules which is the basis for IFAA rales. I know the most pleasurable experience for me was to find one group of archers competing without reference to “open” or “amateur.” 1 mention this in particular because the controversy regarding intermingling does not exist in Europe. If
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an archer is interested in FITA competition he/she is his own policeman. It is my hope they will continue to keep this pollution out of their field archery. It is my further hope we can rid field archery* of this contamination in the United States and sometime in the near future let all archers compete together as one without the need to provide duplicate awards.
Reprinted from the October, 1970, Archery Magazine * As explained in my column, the first International Championships were held in Sweden instead of Germany as indicated. Ken Rogers. 191
Misery Loves Company The European Field Archery Championships 2001 By Skip Trafford When we first arrived and started shooting the EFAC in the high Alps of Lcukcrbad. Switzerland, we traipsed. climbed and hiked up and down and around three courses called Torrent, Marisse and Mclchboden. However, by the end of a long week of shooting, the courses had thoroughly earned new nicknames: "Torment". “Misery" and "Melt Down". In that regard, most of the 261 archers who successfully manipulated the rugged courses just across from the range holding the fabled Matterhorn, felt that this was without a doubt the most difficult IFAA championship tournament ever held on the planet. All in all, few could argue with the facts: • The three courses varied between 1600 and 2600 meters. • "Torment" was so high, it had to be reached by gondola each day •Laying out "Misery" was so difficult that it had to be completely redone three times including being “reworked" just a week before the tournament. •Most archers scores dropped a good 25% due to the harsh conditions • Only some 20% of the targets were in a near horizontal position • Torment was set so high that we were shooting above the tree line •Many of the shots afforded you a view of the backside of the Matterhorn • Some of the shooting was done within a target distance of snow left over from the past winter The planning and organization that went into masterminding such a tournament was as perfect as a storied Swiss time piece. The organizing committee, composed of Walter Hohler. Charlotte and Rene Marbacher, Gaby Wildhaber. Marcus Neuweiler and Peter Vogel are to be commended for their stellar dedication and performance. They should pin a medal on the chest of the person who first suggested that Leukerbad. a ski and health resort located in the heart of the Swiss Alps, should host this annual weeklong European championship. While it was easy to get caught up in the beauty 192
Author Skip Trafford shooting in the European Field Archery Championships
and majesty of the surroundings, what may have been lost to many competitors was the incredible physical effort that must have taken place in hauling each and every target mat up to its final resting place. “Herculean effort" is the phrase most often heard in the "beer hall" at the conclusion of each shooting day. To sum up the great physical effort it took to complete each day’s shooting, most archers agreed that they were more physically exhausted just hiking to their target assignment each morning, than they
were at the conclusion of shooting a full 28 targets in the typical flat course we all have been lulled into thinking was the "IFAA norm”. On Wednesday August 1, the hills were alive with the sounds of parades, bands and merriment. This complemented the already noisy clinging and clanging of the Alpinian cows. As we shot the animal round in the high mountains surrounding Luekerbad below, we could hear the revelers enjoying the Swiss equivalent to Independence Day. When we dragged our tired bodies back to THE U.S. and INTERNATIONAL ARCHER
town later that day. we were treated to an incredibly long display of fireworks within the horseshoe shaped mountain canyon. With every burst of color and pattern, we got a second and third bombardment as the echoes played across the rock faces high above. I doubt that nary an archer slept that night until the show finally ended late in the evening. Many Swiss and tourists drove to Luekcrbad from distant locations just to be in the right place at the right time. For us archers, we were thankful that the organizers made our being there more than a coincidence". The banquet was held at the top of the mountain at the conclusion of the final shooting day and could only be reached by gondola. I can assure you that many an archer’s legs were still smarting as he headed up the same mountain that he had hiked and shot earlier in the same day. Those same sore legs were soon forgotten when the clean mountain air brought out the very best effort one's stomach could muster which at that point, controlled all aspects of one’s body. The feast was one even William Tell would have given away his favorite crossbow to attend: three huge tables on each end of the dining area piled high with food. Soon after we were entertained by legendary Swiss horns (some 15 feet in length), we all scrambled to be the first in line and feed our enormous mountainfed appetites. The children, one a mere 7 years old. were honored first for having the tenacity and courage to walk the very same courses we adults had hiked all week. Each was given a huge bar of Swiss chocolate and a robust applause. The champions and their closest competition were honored next but perhaps the best was saved for last: all of us had the opportunity to applaud the wonderful organizers (mentioned earlier) who had put together this superb effort. We are now looking ahead to Scotland next August when the EFAC is held in conjunction with the world championships. With Finland following the year later, you can most certainly bet that EFAC 2001 will still be fresh on everyone’s minds as we thank God that the Swiss Alps do not stretch up into the Scottish highlands or Finnish lowlands!
Thank you, Skip for reporting on the archery scene around the world.
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SURE-LOC SHOOTERS SET WORLD RECORDS Eight records were set at the US World Target Trials held in Flushing, New York, June I. 2001. Five of these were set using SURE-LOC sights. In the Outdoor Compound Women competition: 144 FITA Round Michelle Ragsdale USA 1396 (old record 1394); 50m FITA Round Marleigh Bogumil USA 350 (old record 346); and 30m FITA Round Christie Bisco USA 360(20) (old record 359). In the Outdoor Compound Juniors Women competition: 144 FITA Round Amber Dawson USA 1380 (old record 1378) and 50m FITA Round Marleigh Bogumil USA 350 (old record 346). Marleigh, Christie, and Amber are members of the 2001 US team that will compete in the Beijing. China, Outdoor World Target Championships for the US Women Compound team all use the SURE-LOC sight. Other team members (Michelle Ragsdale. Jay and Janet Barrs, Dave Cousins, and Jeff Button) use SURE-LOC sights also. If you would like more information on SURE-LOC sights and other archery products, contact SURE-LOC Archery Products by calling 812-6899926 or by writing to:
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533 525 525
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519 499 492
558 552 546
514 501 503
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256 375
458 476
391 0
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428
458
429
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497 503 507
540 528 546
503 498 490
509 505 492
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475 418 435
548 544 540
487 434 444
492 467 437
2483 2325 2304
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107 337 299
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501 461 387
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500 446 425
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453 469
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237 0
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126 65 107
254 212 182
161 165 106
164 138 95
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325 245 247
402 388 350
343 231 263
313 303 268
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117
234
80
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460 435 423
528 508 490
464 451 437
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Remembering my friend, Budd Rose By Jim Pickering
I first heard that booming voice while shooting an archcry range up Emigration Cyn. However it was a little while later that 1 met the, as my mom referred to him. "Little Man with the big
voice.” In the early years. Budd was a part time Archer. His big thing was flagging stock car races at the fairgrounds race way. and believe me he was one of the most active Dynamic flagmen ever in the business! He wasn't up in the grand stand, he was dow n on the track doing his job. Even got hit a time or two. When he retired from racing is when he got heavily into archery. In the early days of our archery we would compete for 5 positions on a team that would travel to Las Vegas and Detroit. Mich. representing Utah, as the Utah 4 Bears and 1 alternate. I had a sponsor so 1 would fly and usually about 8 to 11 guys and gals including Budd would climb into a truck and camper and drive 49 hours to Detroit to do our shooting thing. We could hold our own against the best in the world and even won the whole thing one year. Everybody always knew Budd and I as shooting pals, but we had a great time no matter where we went. If it was up at Presties cabin or Straw berry w here w e had many memories. One of which was, one year on the opening day of fishing season. The ice had only been off the water for 3 days. We had been sipping the "head of lettuce" and Budd decided Merrill was all alone in his boat with girl friend. So Budd stripped down, did a great belly flop and swam about 50 yards over to their boat, got into it and starting creating waves he was shivering so bad. Then later that year. Boni decided she was going to try water skiing and of course Budd had several comments about that experience. 196
Thank you for being ourfriend when Boni had trouble getting up and we drug her for about 100 yards through the water. If you knew Budd, you can imagine what that consisted of! We also spent a lot of time at Lake Powell. What Glorious times we had there! One great time was. we were all down there with our families which consisted of a bunch of teenagers. During the 60's and 70's the young people had taken a saying that we had grown up with and turned it into some sort of sexual act. You remember “Having A BaH"-Wcl! the rest of that week we all had to be very careful how we phrased everything. We played a game
kicking a "Ball" into one of the natural amphitheaters, and just imagine what Budd and Prcsly came up with in place of ■football'! Our trips to Vegas every year were an experience. One year. Budd was determined he wasn't going to gamble so he gave inc all his money, and knowing me. he didn't get it back until we were on our way home I didn't think he was ever going to speak lo me again. One more event that took place on a trip to Lake Powell with just the boys, all the guys with false teeth started seeing who could rotate their bottom plate 360 degrees in their mouth without touching them. Well a couple of them were so good at that, they tried flip flopping their upper plate without touching. Of course we all had been sipping the suds and about the third or fourth rotation. Bud’s uppers took a tumble and broke. Well that night Presty had bought a roast for each of us to barbecue. When we all started eating you can imagine Budd's predicament. and about the second bite he came over to me. handed me a big piece of steak and had me chew it tender for him and then he would take it and finish it. The next thing we knew only Bob, Budd and I were left in the tent, and I don't know to this day if those other guys ever finished their gigantic steaks. Bud always said that was the true sign of friendship. I don't know on his pan. but it certainly was on mine. One thing about Budd Rose, if you were in need of help in anyway, he was the first there and the last to leave. Love and prayers to Budd's family from your Archcry Family. THE U.S. and INTERNATIONAL ARCHER
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Toward the Gold with Freddie Troncoso Unfortunately, the problem with a smaller peep sight hole is the target is much harder to see. It's also difficult to make sure we were using the right pin. For hunting, this was unacceptable. So as many have done I the past, we used a large peephole for hunting and a smaller one for target shooting. However, because of the centering problem, our effective hunting distance was less Author Freddie Troncoso than it could be. A while back, while working with our shooting machine, the problem was solved. (A/'?? The shooting machine is able to shoot an jP For the benefit of our readers and archers throughout the world. arrow just as accurately as it is aimed. We we will begin to feature a brand new series of concise and discovered this using a freestyle sight. But, « informative articles on bow tuning, arrow flight, aiming and other the same bow with a pin sight on it did not topics that are related to shooting and scoring well with the bow perform as well. We knew the bow was good, but for some reason it wasdifficult to get the same accuracy and arrow. We will open this special scries with several top notch articles using the pin sight. Time after time, we would line everything by Steve Johnson of Oregon, who designs, manufactures and sells up. shoot the arrow, and not hit where we were aiming. When we the renown “Spot Hogg" shooting machine. Steve is also an avid drew the bow back for another shot, we found that the pin would archer who in the company of his family, shoots daily while be off center in the peep sight. This was very frustrating. We conducting experiments for the benefit of all archers regardless wanted to use the machine to tune and troubleshoot our hunting of shooting style or disciplines. equipment. Unfortunately, without being able to aim accurately, We. at US and International Archer, sincerely believe that you the machine results were unreliable. will benefit and appreciate the fact that all findings and conclusions Eventually it was discovered that if we aligned the side of the are based on rock solid truth that can be verified by your own pin guard with the side of the peep sight, and aligned the bottom testing and experimentation using a “Spot Hogg” shooting of the pin guard with the bottom of the peep sight we could get machine. Read and benefit from what Steve has to say about consistent results. Even though the pin was not centered, we now aiming and shooting..... had the same aiming accuracy that we had experienced with the freestyle sight. It wasn't long before we figured out the connection. When Attitude on Aiming using the freestyle sight, we were centering the scope housing in By Steve Johnson the peep sight without really thinking about. Centering the large As many of you already know, we at SPOT-HOGG are very scope housing did not present the same level of difficulty as technically inclined. That's because we've been disappointed so centering a pin. The scope housing fit very nicely in the peep many times by the “just let it happen" subconscious control. We sight and aligning the two concentric circles could be easily and try not to rely it. unless it's absolutely necessary. That’s not to accurately accomplished, on a consistent basis. say we don't appreciate the awesome power that exists there. But. So we made up some round pin guards for our hunting bows. it doesn't matter how capable the subconscious is, By centering the round pin guard, instead of each ours seems easily confused. individual pin. our accuracy increased dramatically. Does your First, the shooting machine showed us that there really While straightening out the confusion, we found that anytime we can minimize the responsibilities of was no difference in the aiming accuracy between the pin sight the subconscious control, the results were more freestyle scope and a pin guard with just a pin. So we dependable. An example of this is in the aiming of checked it out by hand.. have a the arrow. In the beginning, it was hard to get used to centering We found a long time ago that using sights on a round pin the pin guard instead of the individual pin. After so bow yielded better results than not using sights. many years of centering the pin, it took probably a Using a peep sight in the string also helped, and guard? half a dozen practice sessions before the awkwardness centering the pin in the peep sight provided the last was gone. Our groups got tighter and our scores got bit of aiming control. better. There was no doubt we were on to something. We were led to believe, from many different sources, that the What we were after was a better hunting sight. The added eye would naturally center the pin in the peep sight. Our eyes accuracy would help us achieve better hits. The combination of a must be defective, because it seemed that lining up the pin on the round pin guard and a peep sight hole that is big enough to center spot took precedence over being centered in the peep sight. The the pin guard, works A WESOME\ The large peep sight hole only solution (as many have found) was to use a smaller peep gives you more light to see where you are aiming, and all the pins sight. This seemed to work pretty well. Continued at bottom of next page 198
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TRUST YOUR FORM By Terry Wunderle
Shot Doctor Terry H'underle See the Shot Doctor ad on page 231.
Recently I was working with one of my students on the practice range at a tournament. I was standing next to him on the line watching his shot execution. As he shot, I remarked, "Good shot" on the first two arrows. On the third shot I said, “You aren’t going to like where that hit.” Another archer who was standing behind us asked, "How did you know where they hit when you never even looked at the target?” I replied,” On the first two shots he had perfect form. The last arrow was low right because he held it too long and shot a weak shot."
The common cause for a bad shot is bad form, not bad aiming. People put their confidence in the sight picture, not their form. Say you are aiming at a 35 yard turkey and really want a ten. Very few archers are steady enough to “lock on" to the ten ring and have the pin remain there. They keep holding the shot waiting for the pin to stay in the ten ring and before long have added four or five seconds to their normal shooting rhythm. Due to the extra holding time the archer has allowed the back pressure to decrease. This causes the bow ami to weaken and not explode through the shot. This is a common scenario for a bad shot. How do you correct the problem? Trust your form not your sight. Hold the pin as close to the desired impact point as possible and let the pin float. If you tighten muscles in an attempt to guide the sight pin, the effect of these tightened muscles will be reflected in the shot execution. Concentrate and make sure that you shoot a shot with perfect form. If the form is good, the shot will be much better than it would have been if you had kept aiming. Prove it to yourself so you will trust your form. Put a forty cm. target up at thirty
Don Baxter displays the targets from three perfect 450 tournament. He trusted his form and shot.
yards and shoot twenty shots for score. Repeat the process but this time let the pin float and shoot a rhythmic shot while you are concentrating on shooting perfect form. The scores should reflect where your trust should be directed. Then, the next time you are in a pressure situation, you should have the confidence needed to shoot a good shot. Instead of concentrating on the erratic pin movement, concentrate on perfect shot execution. Confidence and trust in your form will help you shoot like a champion.
Continuedfront previous page Toward the Gold-Freddie Troncoso are visible all the time. The chances of using the wrong pin are greatly reduced. And, your anchor point is now the same no matter what pin you are using. Once you adjust to centering the pin guard you will never go back to centering the individual pins. Try it. You »w7/like it, GUARANTEED! I'd like to personally thank Steve Johnson for sharing his technical findings on aiming with our readers. Technical writers have always proclaimed that a good consistent shot sequence, coupled with proper aiming and mental control, are the keys to the gold! For more information on the “Spot Hogg” shooting machine, go to (www.spothogg.com)
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Coach’s Corner THE PARADOX OF BOW TUNING by Bernie Pellerite © 2001 Author's Bio: Bernie Pellerile's past experience and achievements include many archcry championships, pro siaff shooter, pro shop owner and seminar speaker. As a bowhuntcr. he has 10 animals in the top 10 of Safari Club International Bowhunting World Record Book. He's a leading technical writer and archery analyst published in many countries as well as many U.S. archcry magazines He is President of Robinhood Video Productions, the world's largest and most popular producer of instructional archery videos, which presently has 37 titles marketed into 34 countries He is also the inventor and sole distributor of the “Bernie's CAN'T PUNCH™ release, which eliminates punching and target panic He also has a innovative product called "Bernie's PanicMaster and Bow Simulator" and a senes of 9 videos called the Shooter's School Master Scries. (See ad on page 191). As a professional coach, he created the world famous NFAA Shooter s School, for competitive level archers. and also offers the NFAA Advanced Certified Instructor program as an option. Bemie and his wife. Jan. will be conducting these exciting shooter's schools which arc also available on 6 video tapes. Bemie has also written a new book called “Idiot Proof Archcry" (see page 235). For more information, call Bemie or Jan at Robinhood Videos (614)933-0011 or fax (614) 933-0010.
Il is interesting to know that a surprisingly large number of target archers think bow tuning is the most important part of accuracy. Since 1993.1 have surveyed hundreds of shooters at our archery range and in my Shooter's School. The question is. "What percentage of accuracy is bow tuning responsible for?" The range of answers 1 get is from 50% to 95%. This is no doubt attributable to the fact that in recent years there has been endless seminars, videos, books, and articles on the subject. And, from the time we first hit the practice range as novice archers, we are told by our fellow shooters that if your bow is not tuned properly, it is impossible to hit the target with any consistency. Therefore, in most archers’ minds, bow tuning is the most important ingredient in the formula for accuracy. Nothing could be further from the truth! In theory, bow tuning plays absolutely no role in accuracy. This is easily proven if you have access to a good shooting machine. Having experimented with shooting machines myself. I know that regardless of the tune of the bow. a
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shooting machine is capable of putting every arrow in the same hole, even when equipped with broadheads. This is assuming, of course, that all outside influences such as arrow weight, flctch clearance, wind, nock and broadhead alignment, etc. remain exactly the same. To double check my results, I called a professional archer friend of mine, who was known for his candor, years of experience, and experimentation with various shooting equipment. He assured me that he had tested a bow in a shooting machine at long distances and found no difference in the groups of the arrows whether the bow was tuned or untuned, as long as all the arrows were identical. He got a 2" group at 60 yards with a perfectly tuned bow and then took off four turns on the bottom limb bolt and repeated the experiment. The arrows came out wobbling and porpoising but still impacted into a 2" group (at a different place on the target). I know what some of you are thinking, that I must be anti-tuning. Not at all! I believe that bow tuning is an essentia) part of good archery and I'm for any book, tape, or article that shows us how. I'm no different than most diehard fanatics, afraid of not going far enough. We all have spent endless hours paper-testing, rest-adjusting, powder-testing, nock-aligning, grouptesting, re-fletching, tiller-tuning, spin testing, center-shotting, cable-shortening. string-twisting, bolt-cranking, arrow straightening, broadhead-aligning, point weighing. front-of-center balancing, module-swapping, bare shaft testing, eye balling. and rollover-adjusting until our fingers bled and we were reduced to a cross-eyed, stuttering lump of protoplasm with the l.Q. of a cooked turnip. If the shooting machine experiment proves that bow tuning has no effect on accuracy from shot to shot, why then did we waste our time making so many adjustments? The answer is simple ... we are human beings, not machines, and only humans need to THE U.S. and INTERNATIONAL ARCHER
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This “flier” is way out of center... “How do 1 tune that out?" To me, tuning consists of different adjustments that we can make to one or more components of the bow and arrow combination in order to obtain the best possible result, given your individual shooting form. Tuning (mostly arrow and arrow rest tuning) simply tries to counteract the influence that a flaw in our execution has on the arrow's impact. It's important to note that the only reason for bow tuning is to improve our bad shots; our good shots all go where we aim anyway. And, as for our really bad shots... tuning won't help much at all W hat Bovs Tuning Is Not
The key here is to understand that in theory. tuning is not related to accuracy. Tuning is related only to bow performance and forgiveness... accuracy is related to consistent execution of form. In simple terms, this means that tuning had no effect on accuracy in the shooting machine tests because all things remained constant, shot to shot. Therefore, tire more consistent we are in our form, the more accurate wc will be. For instance, if you gave an untuned bow to a professional archer, his accuracy would be much greater than an intermediate archer shooting a professionally tuned bow. A good example of this was in the late 80s when I attended the largest indoor tournament in the country in Las Vegas. Nevada . .. The Vegas Shoot. One of the fellows I was shooting with was Tom Crowe, a real nice guy from Oregon who has since become quite a successful professional target and 3-D archer. He was shooting a "new 75% let-off McPherson bow" with a draw weight of 65 pounds, holding 17 pounds, shooting 2413 arrows cut extremely
short with a 5” overdraw that came well past the break in his wrist. Tom’s shooting form was a bit unorthodox with his bow shoulder rolled forward and draw elbow well behind his head with what seemed to be a draw length that was too long. He was using a wrist strap FletchHunter release. At that time, almost everybody was shooting round wheel 40-50 pound bows with 50-60% let-off, no overdraw. regular length arrows and back tension release aids. However, at the end of the tournament Tom had broken the Vegas record with the only perfect 300 ever shot in the Bowhunter Freestyle division (compound, pins and release). The other amazing thing was Tom’s arrow flight and number of holes in the target. However, I noticed that Tom’s arrows were fishiailing 6-8 inches as they left his bow. But, as wc walked to the target to pull our arrows I noticed that Tom’s arrows, on each of the three targets, were going in the same hole! When he finished his perfect round of300. there was one hole, a little larger than a nickel, in each of the three targets made up of twelve arrows each... twfo practice ends and ten scoring ends. When I looked at my target, shot with a very forgiving Hoyt Medalist with no overdraw, 9” brace height.
round wheels at 45 pounds holding 21 pounds. I noticed that I had about 25 holes in three targets But I had a perfectly tuned bow with perfect arrow flight and a very mediocre score of 289 ... go figure’ Another good example of this phenomenon was Terry Ragsdale of Tucson, Arizona, in 1978 (Terry and his wife. Michelle, are arguably the best target archers to ever shoot a compound bow.) Terry shot the only perfect 1200 ever recorded in Vegas and it has never been duplicated since. He was using a fourwheel model PSE Citation. By the end of the tournament he discovered that the bow string had five broken strands directly under the nock. When Terry returned home, he had heard rumors of a new tuning method called “paper tuning.’’ Curious to see how his winning bow setup fared w ith this “new” process, he shot the same arrows used in the tournament through the paper. To his amazement he had definitely flunked the new test with a 10 o’clock, highleft 5 inch rip in the paper which would have probably prevented him (and most people) from leaving the house if he had done it before the tournament.
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FREE SEMINARS AT THE IBO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Barely a month later. Terry duplicated that feat at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Michigan, at the North American Indoor tournament. What’s even more remarkable about these two consecutive feats is that the bow he used at this shoot was a “new" two-wheel model with the top wheel leaning so severely, that it looked like the cables would jump out of the track al full draw. Out of Terry’s 138 arrows, shot in three days, only 5 even touched the 10-ring line. All the rest were completely inside the I ” 10ring. This leads us into the fundamental principle of competitive archery' and that is. “you don’t have to do it right, you just have to do it the same way each time.” If you do it the same way each time, like a shooting machine, whether the bow is tuned or not. the arrows will go in the same hole (as long as the arrows are all exactly the same). Unless something is damaged, the bow can’t change from one shot to another. without operator assistance. If you can’t shoot 30 arrows with exactly the same form and execution, then the perfectly tuned bow can’t save you. Therefore. The Paradox of Tuning — Tuning can only be relevant if you have consistent form . . . and if you have consistent form, tuning then becomes irrelevant! ... a Bemie-ism! The secret is. if you duplicate each shot, so will the bow... tuned or untuned. Now, the only variable becomes the arrows and your mental program! Editor’s note: The above is an excerpt from Bernie’s new book, “IDIOT PROOF ARCHERY”. Sec ad on page 233. This “tcllit-likc-it-is. no-holds-barrcd” approach is what makes Bernie so popular with his students. This new book promises to be the best and most comprehensive ever written for the competitive archer! 202
Two free target panic, tournament nerves and back tension seminars by NFAA Master Coach Bemie Pellcritc drew nearly 300 people, which was held at the IBO Worlds. Snowshoe Mountain Ski Resort. August 10-11 As you can sec in the picture. Benue is getting a lol of people to “come out of the target panic closet.” Besides the 100 or so pictured, there w ere another 40 or so people sitting behind Bemie and standing out in the hall. Through the NFAA. Bemie gives free seminars at major events, such as the AMO Trade Show (see picture), the Las Vegas World Archery Festival, the NFAA Indoor Nationals, at both the ASA and IBO World Championships, and others. Bemie says. "Since I started doing these free seminars in 1999. the response has grown from an average of 60 to well over a 100 people at each one. The response has been amazing and very liberating for hundreds of shooters and shop owners who come to these seminars and finally confront their "demons.” Hopefully, if this trend continues, it might be okay, or even fashionable someday, to admit you have it, and we’re all in the same boat. In fact, that is one of my main goals. That’s why my opening statement in these seminars is. "Hi, my name is Bemie. and I’ve got Target Panic!’’
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Setting your own “Governor” By Roger W. Breternitz Ch.T.
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Do you know what a “Governor" on an engine is? Thai’s a device that keeps the engine from running any faster that a set RPM. Docs it ever seem like you've got a governor on your shooting ability? You get to a certain place of proficiency and you run into a brick wall, or this is where your personal "Governor" takes over and says, “This is where you screw up. this is where you throw the game, or now it's time to start losing"? All of us have this THING inside us that tells us what we are "Suppose” to achieve, what we deserve to accomplish, and how far we can go in any endeavor. We get to that point, and it doesn't matter what we arc talking about, sports, business, life in general and sooner or later our governor takes over and we level off to where we are once again...are where we are "Suppose" to be. This is in our win/loss record, our income, our level of goal completion, what we FEEL we can achieve, or more over what we feel we DESERVE, Right now you're thinking, "What person doesn't think they deserve the best for themselves”? The answer...pleanty of people, only not on a conscious level. The big thing here, and what belief system change is all about, is what your SUB-conscious level really believes. Reprogamming your subconscous is where the REAL change comes about on an outward level, and I have said this a few times before, the bottom line is, change the inside first and the outside changes automatically. The outside meaning you start to WIN when you use to come in second, third or dead last. It doesn't matter how much you practice, the hours you spend tuning your equipment, or any of the factors you think make you a winner. The bottom line again...is your “Governor" and what level it is set at. The main focus here is, “How do you reprogram your governor to a higher level than is now", so it will allow you to achieve more, shoot better and win in the face of all odds? The answer is not so simple.
Reprogramming the subconscious is quite a task that most people never achieve to any degree of success, because they try to do it on a conscious level. It that an anomaly or what? Yet most folks try to change their inner beliefs in that manner. So how is the inner subconscious really altered? The first thing is. you must occupy or relax the conscious mind, that's the part of your thinking process that figures your check book, decides who to marry, wheather or not to invade a foreign country. you know...little stuff. When you occupy this conscious mind through deep mental relaxation, like using hypnosis tapes, or relaxation reprogramming tapes, your subconscious is very susceptible to suggestion. This is the tune to reprogram the most powerful results-gctting part of your God given attributes...your subconscious mind. This is the part of you that decides if you will win or lose regardless of how much you've practiced or worked on your form, it is your “Governor" that chooses success or failure. How do we do this? You can either buy a set of professionally created subconscious reprogramming tapes like the ones from Vector studios, which for most people will be most effective, or if you feel creative and adventurous, you can make your own. How do you make your own? This is somewhat of an exacting process. First you must write a reprogramming script that starts with what is called a basic induction. Start with counting from 10 down to 1 and with each number relate it to a part of your body statrting from the top of your body to the bottom of your feet. Example: #10 your forehead is feeling totally relaxed. #9 your neck is feeling this same relaxing power, #8 your shoulders go loose and limp. #7 your upper arms. #6 lower arms. #5 stomach, legs, etc. Now when you get to 10 you tell yourself how deeply relaxed you are and that now you are going to remember all of the positive affirmations you hear next and incorporate them into your outward behavior. Then state all the things you would like to improve upon, concenteration, strength, focus, relaxation under pressure, how you deserve to win, and anything else you feel is important. Then don't forget to add a wake-up portion to the script counting from 1 up to five.
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coming up gradually until you arc wide awake and ready to start your wonderful day. evening or whatever. Get a cheap microphone and a tape recorder that uses standard size cassette tapes so you can play it back on a good stereo with headphones if possible. This is greatly over-simplified. but in a sense this is the most effective way to reprogram your subconscious mind into changing your outward behavior. Just make sure to keep ail suggestions positive in nature. An example would be. if you were going to reprogram yourself to have better concentration you wouldn't say "Don't think about outside problems, only of shooting this arrow", you would say "My concentration gets stronger the longer I shoot. I only allow my mind to think about shooting each arrow at one time". Always use the “First person” tense. This is a most powerful way to reprogram your inner belief system, which is the “Governor” of all your behavior. Do this and you will suddenly see yourself start winning without any more practice, equipment tuning, lessons or extra work at TRYING harder to win. You just might change more than your archery, you will probably notice a big change in your entire life. The best of luck and, Good Shooting! http://www.trueflightfeathers.com
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From the Senior Corner By Joe Bauernfcind Editor's note: Mr. Bauernfcind did a very thorough job of covering the Compound Release divisions of the Senior Olympics. Thanks. Joe. we really appreciate your great work. It would have been impossible for Joe to cover the traditional divisions besides competing in this event. Wc would like to invite anyone that has a story on anyone, even if it is yoursef.plcasc send the article and pictures to us for publication in the November-December issue. Deadline for that issue is October 15th.
Charlene Washburn won a Zenith release donated by Joe Bauernfeind
Once again, coming to you from the Senior Comer, it’s your old traveling salesman and sometimes archer Joe Bauernfeind. This time I also did some picture taking along with writing a report onthe2001 Senior Games in beautiful (hot) Baton Rouge. I'm not any kind of photographer, like Larry Hix who did it last year but I did my best. It's next to impossible to get candid shots during the time we were shooting. Things seem to move so fast, that if you stop to chat with someone, you get out of sync with the shooting line and wind up rushing to take your spot. The venue was smaller than the field in Orlando in 1999 and it forced Tim Austin and Ed Newbern to have to shoot six archers on some targets in the Compound-Release Division. This worked
out ok with 3 archers on the line at a time. but to avoid overloading the target with arrows, we shot each end in two parts of 3 arrows each and pulled after each 3 arrows. It meant double the walking and left little time for relaxing between the A and B lines. but it was run flawlessly by Ed and Tim. These guys do one heck of a job. As I said before though, it was confusing at times especially for us older folks. If you've never been in Louisiana in mid July, you should count yourselves among the lucky. Baton Rouge is the home of the NSGA and the LSU campus affords a great venue but in order to have unlimited access to the facilities, they hold the games in mid summer. They do give you fair warning about what to expect as far as the weather goes and I made myself imagine it was
going to be unbearable. That way when you actually get there, it's usually not as bad as you thought it would be. It's an old trick I learned before going to Navy boot camp back in the 50's. I listened to all the horror stories and prepared myself for the worst and it actually was kind of fun. Some of the guys who weren’t set for it really freaked out and had a bad time. 1 arrived on Saturday night and the Ramada where I was staying was hard to find. That should have given me a clue that something was amiss. It didn’t look like any Ramada that I'd ever seen. There was a guy wandering around in the lobby. without shoes or a shirt on. mumbling and striking his chest. The manager wanted the security guy to get the cops to arrest him but the guard wanted to try to talk him
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down, so they were going at it over that. I was finally given a room key and went to the back of this rather strange looking building to find it. It was not too great a looking a place and when 1 looked in the window of the room, the bed was made up on a pull out couch. YOU’VE GOT TO BE KJDDING ME. Back into the lobby I went and after being confronted by the nut without the shirt, I made my way to the front desk to demand my money back. They said they didn’t have my money to give back. The rooms had been booked through an agency and they got the money up front with a no refund policy to boot. That’s one of the problems that rile people about the games. They go a little too far into your wallet and limit your option of making your own arrangements. I know of several people who didn’t go because of their objections to the costs, but there is still a full house every 2 years despite it. The manager finally explained that they had received a reservation list from the agency, but some of the people wanted to stay a few extra days and this caused an over booked situation at the Ramada. The whole complex was made up with part of it being the Ramada and the rest of it being extended stay rooms for corporate use and whatever else. Anyway, they got me into one of the corporate rooms with the promise of a reduced price and switched me over to one of the Ramada rooms the next day. Nobody seemed to remember the reduced price offer when I checked out though. It turned out to be a decent place to stay for the archery though. since the field was just a traffic free mile down the road. Sunday was a practice day, but with the heat and windy conditions it wasn’t what I really called fun. Monday was the first of the two days of shooting and things got underway at 8AM. Open practice was allowed up until the start time, which is unusual for the target archery set. Usually it’s two practice ends and go. The skies were cloudy most of the day and 1 think that kept the heat down. The wind was up though and I struggled with my
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back tension type release for most of the day. On one end at 40 yards I just couldn't get the shot off and had to let down. I had the whistle blow on me and lost the arrow for score. The target archery time setup is not good. They raise a yellow flag when there arc 30 seconds to go. but it's at the end of the line and if you don't see it go up, you have no clue how much time is left. They say the clock timers used indoors are loo expensive. The next day we figured out that the only way to be safe was to buddy with the rest of the guys in your group and give a verbal warning to someone getting close to the edge of a 'no score'. I finished the first day with a trigger to avoid any further problems with the time limit in the wind. We also voted for a 7AM start on Tuesday to try to beat the heat and wind. Tuesday was no longer cloudy, so the sun just ate us up. I drank about a gallon of water and ate enough bananas to please any monkey. 1 still suffer from an urge to swing from the trees. The wind was not as bad as it was on Monday and proved not to be a factor. I shot with a great group of guys from Texas (Jessie Pope). N. Carolina (Steve Williams). Maryland (Bob Specht) and Michigan (Jim Langer). I managed to get all of my arrows shot, with Steve's help in keeping me from wandering off when we were supposed to be on the line, but I couldn't catch up to Jessie and w ound up with a Silver medal. Bob came on strong and took the Bronze. I got even with Jessie though by selling him one of my releases. Charlene Washbum from California was the lucky winner of a release which I donated. In 1999 I won a release in the same way. It figures. A guy who's in the release business, wins a release as a door prize. Charlene’s husband. Paul, turned out to be the end user though and he was one happy camper. Each year it’s fun to see the old, familiar faces of the shooters from previous games and to welcome the new blood like Fred DiSalvo and Chuck Galusha. Chuck was really on his game in the Compound Fingers event and set new single round and total records for the 50-54 men. I missed my old buddy Larry Hix, who went to the NFAA Nationals instead and the ultimate 206
gentleman, Frank Gandy from Florida. I f you read my article from the Orlando Games, you'll sec why I think the world of him. Once again, the amazing John Pino from New Mexico, shot the entire two rounds. This year John reached his 100"’ birthday and he’s still going strong. 1 look forward to being there in Hampton Roads. Virginia, to sec John do it again at 103. The games will be held in the month of May to beat some of the heat and we hope to see all of you there. I'll be publishing the complete list of qualifiers for your state, in an upcoming issue. Watch for it and start making your plans. Another standout of the event was Ellis Gibson of Texas. Ellis broke the all time single round and total score records for the Senior Games. He's also a heck of a lot of fun too. When he's paired with Jim Thurman from Tennessee they are about as opposite as Oscar and Felix. Jim is about as laid back as anyone I know and Ellis is like a little fireball. We're planning to do the North American Field Archcry Championships in Miami this December, with Roger Wheaton added to the mix for some cloak and dagger mystery. Check the web site at for all the particulars. Come on out and join us for some great winter field archery. I’m sorry for the lack of reports on the other styles. Compound Fingers and Recurve, but the lime needed to see all three events would be just too much for one person to do. Maybe next time 1'11 try to get a reporter at each of the events so Arlyne can get complete coverage, complete with pictures. If there are any budding writers and photographers out there, shoot me an e-mail and we can set something up. There arc so many more tales to tell, but alas, time runs short so I'm going to end it here. Next time come on out and see it all for yourself. Joe Bauemfeind joe@zenitharchery.com www.zenitharchcry.com
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RETRACTION BCY, Inc. apologizes to Brownell & Company for
publishing inaccurate statements in its advertisements regarding the breaking strength of BCY’s DynaFLIGHT 97 bowstring and its claims that DynaFLIGHT 97 is 50% stronger than Brownell’s Fast Flight bowstring. In fact, a bowstring composed of Fast Flight® bowstring material has a comparable breaking strength to a bowstring composed of DynaFLIGHT 97 bowstring material. BCY also apologizes to Brownell for discussing with people in the industry the possible acquisition of Brownell. Our understanding is that Brownell is alive and well. Accordingly, BCY now retracts any former misrepresentations concerning DynaFLIGHT 97 in its sales and advertising materials.
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From: HAWK ASSOCIATES'■ HEPKE NEW VP FOR ROBINSON JABS Robinson Laboratories, Inc.. the worldwide leader in scent elimination product for outdoor enthusiastics. is proud to announce the promotions of Shelly Ilepkelothc position of Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Company President, Scott Shultz made the announcement from the Robinson Laboratories offices in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. “Shelly Shelly Hepke has been critically involved with our sales and marketing efforts and the rapid growth, development and market recognition of our key brand categories. Shelly joined our firm in 1999 as National Sales and Marketing Manager and has been a major contributor to our success since then." “As Robinson Labs continues to diversify its product line and expand into new and innovative markets, we have the need and opportunity to expand our management staff. I am very particular about the people that comprise the team. As a company, we are quick, nimble and responsive, recognizing opportunity and moving quickly to capture it. I demand the same business savvy in my managers.” says Shultz. “Shelly possesses all the skills required for this position and an excitement for what’s going on within Robinson Labs. She has quickly learned our industry, our business and established an excellent relationship with virtually all of our accounts. She has the expertise and the contacts to direct this vitally important part of our growing business.” Ms Hepke comes to Robinson with a degree from Eastern Kentucky University and ten years of intense sales experience. Robinson Labs manufactures and markets the ever-popular line of Original Scent Shield® products, the world famous Scent Blocker Plus® line of technical scent elimination apparel and accessories. Still Steamin® premium attractants. No Stinkin' Bugs™ and Ticks™ Insect repellents. Dog Essentials™ hunting dogs care products. Keller’s Gel’s™ lures and attractants. Buck Science®, wildlife management products, and the revolutionary new CARBON BLAST Liquid Scent Eliminator powered by Activated Carbon. For more information contact: Robinson Laboratories. Inc. P.O. Box 18 Cannon Falls, MN 55009 or call 507-263-2885 THE U.S. and INTERNATIONAL ARCHER
Rick Sapp & Associates, Inc. 6821 S.W. Archer Road Gainesville, FL 32608 Phone 352-377-4245 Fax 352-373-9839 .Muzzy® Cable Guard Adapter Is Available for Mounting the new Zero Effect AnrowRest™Systeni Cartersville, GA — Archers who want to shoot with the new Zero Effect ArrowRest System, Muzzy’s no-problem, “dropaway" shooting system that eliminates all arrow rest related tuning problems, can now mount the System on almost any bow using Muzzy's Cable Guard Adapter. This is the remarkable arrowrest that is endorsed by 3-D World Champion Competitorsand World Class Bowhunters Jesse and Ginger Morehead. The Muzzy Cable Guard Adapter allows archers to convert most low mount cable guard bows to the required high mount cable guard position for use with the patented Zero Effect ArrowRest System. The Zero Effect mounts in a secure 2-point manner: at the conventional above-grip riser position and. via a roller slide and turnbuckle, on the high mount cable guard itself.
Muzzy's Cable Guard Adapter allows archers to quickly retrofit bows which have low mount cable guards to an upper cable guard position for use with the remarkable new Zero Effect ArrowRest System to eliminate all arrow rest-related tuning problems.
A high mount cable guard is required because the Zero Effect docs not so much "drop-away” ("it can’t drop away!" says Muzzy's John Musacchia.) as it is driven smoothly, but instantly away from any possibility of interfering with the shot. The 2.8 oz. Muzzy Cable Guard Adapter consists of a lightweight machined aluminum bracket and a 9 5/8" solid carbon rod that is designed for use with high or low brace height bows. Drilled and tapped to AMO standards, the Cable Guard Adapter accepts sights and quiver brackets. Attaching the high mount Muzzy Cable Guard Adapter will not interfere with the installation or operation of any AMO standard accessory. Muzzy® Product, Corp. BAD TO THE BONE 110 Beasley Rd.. Cartersville. GA 30120 Tel. 770-387-9300 Fax 770-386-1777 Internet w,vw.batllolhebone.com
Vibracheck™ Introduces The IsoFlex™ Stabilizer ! Pensacola, FL — With laboratory test data available to support his theories of shock and noise reduction. Vibracheck’s Ron Gilley recently introduced the IsoFIcx Stabilizer. The IsoFIcx is 6 1/2" long and weighs 6 1/2 ounces. Its 1" diameter central tube is machined from aircraft quality aluminum and its outside surface is wrapped with three neoprene resonance reduction collars to dampen high frequency vibration. The IsoFlex is rubber-coated to reduce incidental noise and available in a variety of camo patterns. What makes Ron Gilley's approach to bow stabilization so unique is the Isolating Rod molded in the patented visco-clastic polymer StrikeWavc Gel filling the central stabilizer chamber. A black bullet-weight attached to the rod's fore-end serves as a “floating shock absorber" and noise abatement system because if is not anchored metal-to-metal! IsoFlex Stabilizers work extraordinarily well because when an archer releases and his or shot "explodes” from the bow system. the StnkeWave Gel's elasticity rejects the tendency of the rod mounted bullet-weight to oscillate. The gel quickly returns the rod and weight to a motionless state and this eliminates both noise and vibration!
Ron Gilley, President of Vibracheck, has introduced the IsoFlex™ Stabilizer. At 6 1/2" and 6 1/2 ounces, the IsoFlex features an ultra-light bullet weight levered on an Isolating rod that is molded into Ron *s patented StrikeWave gel. Il is pictured on the unique I ibracheck Quick Disconnect with 10° angled base.
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Introducing the new Mathews Genesis® bow...the first compound bow that automatically covers all standard draw lengths.
Olympic archer. Rod While, joins Mathews Genesis,™ Inc.
Rod White has been named Promotions and Product Specialist of the new Mathews Genesis project. A U.S. Olympic Team Gold Medalist in 1996 and Team Bronze Medalist in 2000. Rod will be involved in the introduction of new Mathews Genesis bow to the marketplace in an effort to help grow the sport of archery. The Mathews Genesis bow is the first compound bow that automatically covers all standard draw lengths. A light draw weight bow (adjustable from 10 lbs to 20 lbs.), the Mathews Genesis has "zero letoff.” Eliminating let-off eliminates specific draw length requirements. The result is a bow that fits virtually everyone (from 15” to 31”). Says White, “Genesis Technology™ eliminates the biggest problem with introducing compound bows to beginning archers, and that is draw length. Because the Mathews Genesis bow accommodates all draw lengths, everybody can shoot the same bow. 1 intend to help get archery back into our schools and into the various clubs. groups and organizations. Archery is so much fun - it's a lifetime sport, like golf-1 want everyone to experience it. The Mathews Genesis bow will make that possible.”
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The new Mathews Genesis bow is the first compound bow that automatically covers all standard draw lengths (from 15" to 31"). This is accomplished by creating a light draw weight bow with “zero let-off.” Eliminating let-off eliminates specific draw length requirements. This means the bow will fit virtually anyone. Genesis Technology® offers several advantages that make the Mathews Genesis bow the perfect choice for archers of all ages and sizes. Because the bow accommodates virtually all draw lengths. everybody can shoot it. It’s ideal for families as mom, dad, and the kids can all shoot the same bow (and the kids can’t outgrow it). This also makes the bow perfect for schools, clubs and organizations-everyone can shoot the same bow. It's a bow that’s easy to buy, as there is no need to measure and fit for draw length. And, because the draw length is always right, the beginning archer won’t develop bad shooting habits commonly caused by shooting an ill-fitting bow. The Mathews Genesis bow is easy to shoot. It has an adjustable draw weight from 10 to 20 lbs., but it shoots like a bow with higher poundage. When adjusted to 20 lbs., for example, the Mathews Genesis bow stores and releases energy comparable to a 35 lb. recurve bow! Built with single-cam technology, the Mathews Genesis bow is incredibly accurate, quiet shooting, produces very little recoil, and is just plain fun to shoot. The Mathews Genesis bow is available in five flavorful colors: blue raspberry, key lime, lemon yellow, red cherry, and wild berry. It’s also available in camo.
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117th National Outdoor Championships Canton, Michigan - July 28-August 3, 2001
Traditional Target line at the 117th National Outdoor Championships
NAA National Traditional Championships Photos and article by Charles Crites
“The tradition lives on." Wilbur Wooten was talking about normal! He was my first contact at the 117th National Traditional Archery Championship in Canton, Michigan. We talked about Earl Hoyt laughing with us. That is what tradition is about. Our archery friends are with us forever, even when they leave this earth. Their memory is still with us. God takes care of all his children even when we are older and gone from this earth. Friday started with a beautiful day for practice and a friendly get-together. We are looking forward to Saturday and Sunday as we wait for Ann Webber Hoyt to arrive. We said, Earl is already here with us. Saturday started cool and dry but
warmed up. At least the humidity was not real high. The wind blew from all around the compass most of the day. It did blow on all the targets and traditional archers take it in stride best of al I. At least it hasn' t rained yet!
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two days (as they are now as 1 rewrite , so Arlyne can read this). They are not tears of sadness, but of pride in knowing these two wonderful people of archery. May God bless us with more people like them. Brian Luke signed one of his arrows and gave it to me. I was so honored and he said he was too. As you may know, Brian builds bows and also writes. He has donated many bows to the
traditional shoot. Maybe Brian will be up to filling Earl’s shoes and be the future of tradition. Sometimes we forget the tradition of the NAA. Long before compounds or even recurves, the traditional longbow was what started NAA. After 122 years, the longbow still has the mystic of days long past. The American. York, and Hereford round is the most grueling two days of competition. The York and Hereford rounds consist of 144 arrows in one day. Have you ever shot a 900 round? That is only 90 arrows. Lest we forget, or don't know. Saturday consists of 72 of these arrows at 100 yards. They use no sights.
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stabilizers, shelf or special aids other than maybe an aiming stake on the ground. Not only do they hit the target, but some hits are astounding. You do not have to be smart to know they are the elite of archery. As if that wasn't enough, most of them then drive a couple of miles to The Clout round on Sunday afternoon. That’s only 36 arrows at 180 yards. The Clout round is like shooting over a castle's walls in the old days. A large circle is drawn on the ground to score. It is very interesting and amazing. 1 watch in awe as the ladies and gentlemen shoot. Many bows are self-made. This do-it-yourself bow has no concept of computers, fancy arrows or fast flight bowstrings. When Ann Hoyt takes out her little scale and holds it up it is like looking back thousands of years. If you haven't thought about tradition before you should visit a traditional shoot. It is growing faster than modem archery. I bought a 45 pound Wing recurve, which is rather modem by their standards and I may be at one of the traditional shoots available throughout the world. Look-out, 1 do hunt with a recurve, 47 pound Red Wing Hunter, but I’m not worried about winning or losing. I feel it’s just a tradition!
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Below is a summary of the NAA National Championships. Due to deadlines we will carry more coverage of the remaining competitions in the November-December issue. We would like to invite you to send us photos and a brief story on your experience at the 2001 NAA Nationals at Canton, MI which took place July 28-August 3.
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Kathie Loesch, Jeff McNail, Glenn Meyers and
Marleigh Bogumil Win U.S. Open Titles 4 ugust 3 NAA Promotions Director Desirae Freiherr reportsfrom Canton. Mich. — Kathie Loesch (Fresno, Texas), Jeff McNail (Sandy, Utah), Glenn Meyers (Grand Rapids. Mich.), and Marleigh Bogumil captured titles in their respective divisions during the 5lh Annual U.S. Open elimination round on Friday. Loesch won the gold medal in the women's recurve bow division with a 107-104 win over Janet Dykman (El Monte, Calif.). With an 82-80 lead heading into the final end of three arrows, Loesch clinched the gold. Loesch also won the National Target Championship title on Thursday. Karen Scavotto (Enfield, Conn.) won the bronze medal with a narrow 100-95 win over Erika Reyes (Mexico). McNail won the gold-medal match of the U.S. Open after a 113 tie with T.Levi Reed into the final round. The tie was broken after a four-arrow shootout, only the second time in championship history that a tie was broken by a four-arrow shoot-out. The bronze-medal was won by Roger Hoyle. Meyers and Bogumil won the U.S. Open titles in the men’s recurve and women's compound divisons, respectively. Meyers used a 111-107 win over Butch Johnson (Woodstock, Conn.) to claim the gold. Vic Wundcrlc (Mason City, 111.) beat Mattias Eriksson (Sweden) for the bronze medal, 112-110. Marleigh Bogumil defeated Mary Zorn (Warrensville, Ill.) for the women’s compound gold medal. Both archers were tied with a score of 107 after 12 arrows, but Bogumil won the twoarrow tiebreaker. Christie Bisco (Raymond, Maine) captured the bronze medal. September-October 2001 - Visit our website at www.bowhunting.net/usarcher
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TEXAS SHOOTOUT - APRIL 20-22, 2001 Photos and article by Jack Milchanowski
Texas A&M University Target Archers hosted the USAT qualifying tournament at College Station, Texas. It was evident from the start that this was a first class tournament. The field layout was not off by more than The lines on the field were white with maroon on each side. First class archers were in attendance. They had a Texas breeze to contend with for two days of competition. Jane Johnson was the Head Judge. Jeffrey Glasberg. Bob Greene, and Leigh Greene rounded out the judges. The tournament could never be a success without our judges.
first day’s qualification round. The completion of the qualification rounds held no major surprises. The breeze had affected many of the archers. Only one recurve archer, Butch Johnson, shot over a 1300. Butch posted a 1304. The male compound archers posted five scores over 1300 while the female compound archers had four ladies scoring over 1300. In the male recurve division Butch Johnson (1304) from Woodstock, CT finished first. Chris Shull (1287) from Texas A&M was second. Vic Wunderle()281) from Mason City. IL was in third place. In the female recurve division Kathie Loesch (1264) from Houston. TX finished qualifying round
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Remembering Corey Rindfuss May 22, 1987 - July 9, 2000 By Rhonda Campbell Every now and then we meet a person who makes an did they host the tournament, but their whole family helped impression upon us that we never forget. Corey Rindfuss out with the tournament, even Grandma Rindfiiss! What a was just such a person! treat it was see such family closeness and support. The In 1998 I was attending the I.B.O. Great Lakes Shootout kind of thing you rarely see these days! Everyone liked the in McKean, Pennsylvania. Walking around and taking Rindfuss family. They were part of what I like to call “The photographs as 1 usually do. I made my way over toward BIG archery family!” the exhibit tent. 1 stopped Corey passed away to have a look at the unexpectedly last year, Bison target that was during the 3rd leg of the new from McKenzie IBO National Triple that year. "That's my Crown series at favorite target", beamed Nelsonville, Ohio. He a voice from behind me. suffered a brain 1 turned around to find a aneurysm, caused by the bright-eyed young man. malformation of his who was grinning al me anterioral venus, a from ear to ear! “That condition he was one is your favorite", 1 apparently bom with and asked. “Yes", he said. was undetectable. Then he went on to Corey’s parents made the explain all about the tough decision to donate target, and how much he Corey’s organs to others, loved archery. He so that they could have explained that he had life. They felt that that is only been shooting for a what Corey would have short time, how he liked wanted. I too feel that shooting with his dad. that is what Corey would how he had made so have wanted. many friends at the Corey’s family have tournaments, how he been through much, since hurt his foot, and a host his passing. The healing of other topics. As I process takes time. listened to this charming Because of unfortunate little “chatterbox” 1 was circumstances. Corey still thinking to myself, who awaits a headstone. But are you . . . WHO are that twinkle 1 first saw in you . . . WHO ARE Corey’s eyes still shines YOU?! He had a vibrant on! Corey's parents have glowing way about him, started an annual golf and a lust for life that outing and a scholarship you seldom see in fund in his memory. people. He made me Throughout our lives Corey Rindfuss at the 1998 I.B.O. Great Lakes Shootout laugh! He made me feel we meet many people. happy! He stole a piece of my heart! Some stay in our lives for a while and some do not. Some I asked him what his name was. “Corey Rindfiiss”, he make lasting impressions upon us, while others don’t. Some said. I asked if I could take his photo. “Sure”, he said. I folks spend all their long lives searching for some special snapped the shot, and logged his name into my spiral meaning to it all. Then there are the people like Corey. notebook. We waved at each other and said “see ya later” They’re the ones who are only with us for a short time, but as we went our separate ways. We had only talked for about within that time, they have found the reason for their being. 10 minutes. I never forgot him! They hold that reason within the palm of their hands, and Corey’s parents. Bob and Jayne, and his sister, Leslie, reflect it upon everyone they meet! were members of the Indianhead Archers Club. The club Thank you for stopping to talk to me Corey. 1'11 miss that hosted the 1997-1999 IBO World Championship at you. Your BIG archery family out there will miss you too! Peak-N-Peek ski resort, near Clymer, New York. Not only Love, Rhonda and your archery family 220
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A Family Affair Article and photos by Rhonda Campbell Did you see what happened at this year’s Great Lakes Shootout? Well I did! On Friday afternoon I stepped up to the practice range to get a few photos of shooters and shooting! Not even one cloud in the sky! like them here at archery tournaments! was met with quite a surprise! As I walked Shooters were everywhere as they entered Another couple I spoke to were shooting down the line, photographing and talking and exited their designated ranges. People in the new Hunter Classes and really to shooters, as 1 always do, I found that had come here to shoot, from all over the enjoying themselves too! They had even most of them were related to each other! U.S. and even as far as Canada! As I brought along their 9 month old son. . . a Moms, dads, brothers and sisters ,.. they walked around, 1 stopped some of them to "Future Bow Hunter” for sure! I also were everywhere! This is the first year of sec who they were. One group of people noticed that many young girls were out attending these tournaments that I have stopped for a moment to pose for a photo. there shooting this weekend, because their ever experienced such a thing! And what There before me stood 3 generations of the fathers had brought them here to compete. a wonderful thing it is! Perhaps archery is Fernandez family "We came here to watch Being a woman, a trend like this is a the “new glue" that will bond some families our grand-daughter shoot", said Maria and wonderful thing for me to see! together in this day and age of hustle, bustle John Fernandez. What a lovely and On Saturday afternoon, the Future and no time to take for the ones who are supportive family! They could'l imagine Bow Hunters event took place. It is always closest to us! what a treat it was for me to meet people a pleasure to watch these enthusiastic This year’s tournament, held on June 8-10. is now in its I Oth year of being held at the Gem City Outdoorsmen Club. Some people I spoke to have been attending the BEST BEST BEST tournaments here ever since they began. I asked many of them what it is that keeps QUALITY PRICES PERFORMANCE bringing them back here. Their replies were similar, “shots were inconsistently set STABILIZERS PEEPS QUICK DISCONNECT at long and short distances. We had a tough ARROW RESTS SIGHTS time judging the yardage. Our course was so muddy we barely got through it. We www.genesisarchery.com struggled to make shots. Those woods E-mail: donald@kalama.com were dark and the meadows were brightly lit by the sun. which was shining right into Phone 360-425-3908 our eyes. I’m so tired and just look at this Fax 360-425-0753 sunburn!" All of them were smiling as they went on to tell me about the great 3412 Oak Street friendships they had formed here this ARCHERY PRODUCTS weekend, as well as in the past. Sure they Longview, WA 98632 come here for the competition, but they also U.S.A. come here for the “Family Reunion!" Saturday was a perfect day for
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young folks gather together and have a great time shooting. It’s also a pleasure to see so many of their families gathered around them to cheer them on in support! As we all know, these kids are the future of archery and the impressions they get about it now are the ones they will carry with them throughout their lives. The great thing about this tournament is that each and every child emerges as a winner, and recieves an award and a bag of great archery accessories for their shooting efforts. Our thanks go to the l.B.O. and to all the great sponsors and archery dealers who donate the prizes that make these wonderful childrens tournaments possible! A surprise awaited me as 1 walked into one of the buildings. 1 ran into Jayne and Bob Rindfuss and their daughter, Leslie. This tournament marks the 1 year anniversary of the tragic passing of their son (and brother). Corey. Those of us who knew Corey, will never forget him! I hope Justin Martin beat his competition, and claimed 1st place in the Mens Pro division this weekend!
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the Rindfuss family will aways remember that they are a part of a larger family, the archery family. And just as they have lost someone close to their hearts, so have all of us! There was another surprise awaiting me in another building. It was my friend, Cecelia Hendrix! As most of us know, Cecelia has been gravely il for quite some time. Although wheelchair bound. Cecelia still shoots in competitions and travels to archery events whenever she can. Cecelia was here at the tournament to visit her many friends. 1 was among the lucky group who had the pleasure of singing a chorus of Happy Birthday to her. as she celebrated the passing of another year. Cecelia will ALWAYS remain “near and dear” to the hearts of all of us, her archery family! It was a great weekend for everyone in attendance! The courses were tough and presented great challenges for shooters. New friends were made and old friendships were renewed. Congratulations go out to Senior Pro, Charles Blankenship, was hard to beat this weekend, and claimed the top spot in his division!
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International Bowhunter Challenge Hot Weather, Hot Competition Article and photos by Rhonda Campbell July 6-8, 2001 Shooters gathered together for peer grouping early on Saturday morning. They came from all over the U.S. and Canada to
compete in the final jewel of the l.B.O. Triple Crown series of tournaments. They were here to shoot the woods down and dominate over their classes! And a tough task it would be! This years tournament was held again at Hocking College, located in the beautiful rolling hills of Nelsonville. Ohio. This tournament seems to attract a host of spectators along with the participants. The natural beauty and freshness of the area is an added attraction to this event! The tournament took place on July 6-8. and would determine not only who would win the shoot, but who would claim top billing as “overall" winner in each division! A lot of things were going on at the same time at this event. Building construction had caused a new location for the exhibitors al one end of the grounds, while most shooters ventured into the hills to seek their respective ranges at the other end of the grounds. Indeed, endurance would be a factor in placing high on the leader board at this shoot! As in years past. Saturday saw hot and humid weather. As overcast and the threat of rain moved in. the woods became dark and it was a very long day of shooting for many. Targets were strategically placed in cracks, crevaces, ravines and any place else where a shooter could easily misjudge yardage. Most people who attend these tournaments will tell you “if you want to score high, know your yardage!” Tales of missed targets abounded at the days end on Saturday. “It’s funny how you can’t remember the good shots you made", said one shooter as he ended the long day of competition. These sentiments echoed throughout the crowd as the weekend pressed on. Things were abuzz at the Future Bow Hunters event on Saturday afternoon. Local and National television stations were filming our talented young shooters! Excited crowds of children and parents gathered at the range and everyone had a great time of it. Perhaps we'll sec some budding movie stars come out of this tournament! After the shoot the youngsters gathered together
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to recieve their awards, each of them emerging as a winner at this event! That's what makes it such a great event! All the kids did a great job of shooting and all are rewarded for their efforts! Sunday marked the final countdown to the top winners for the series. This day is one of the most tension packed days of all the tournaments combined. Just one misake could put you out of the running for the top spot in your class. To make matters worse. the woods were foggy and the humidity shot up! Scopes fogged up! Glasses fogged up! “You could cut through this stuff with a knife", remarked several shooters as they came off their ranges. “All our shots were long ones”, was another comment often heard throughout the weekend. Competition was fierce! Many shooters have fought hard to stay at the top of their clsss throughout this whole series of shoots. Some of them succeeded too, and went on to become the ‘'Overall” winners in their divisions as well! They are Austin Miland (YMR13-14), Danny Evans (YMR15-17), Tina Huntzinger (SPF). Lynn Wilson (MSR) and Diana Smith (FTRD). Competition was HOT in the Pro and Semi-Pro divisions this weekend. Congratulations to the winning Pro's and Semi-Pros at this tournament. They are Nathan Brooks (PMR), Connie Calloway (PRF), Larry O'dell (PSR) Joseph Goza (PMF) and Gary Studt (SPM). The Amateur divisions make up most of the participation at tournaments. These folks really give it their all, and congratulations go out to the winners in each of their divisions. These include Jonathon Egbert (CUB), Boaz Wolfram (FBH), Samantha Kline (FBO). Linda Janecek (FBR). Brenda Sovine (FHC), Diane Morris (FSR), Rick Harris (HC), Jim Booth (HF), Chris Stachler (MBF). Robert Pusateri (MBO). Martin Clough (MBR), Richard Farkas (MCBH). Conrad Jones III (MCU), Dick VanMarter (MTRD), Sammy Blakeman (RU), Amber Dawson (YF) and Adam Thiel (YMF). The "Overall” Triple Crown series winners included Jack Wallace 11 (PMR), Ginger Morehead (PRF), Tom Crowe (PSR), Joseph Goza (PMF), Dennis McHenry (SPM). Donald Smith (CUB), Boaz Wolfram (FBH). Laurie Curtis (FBO). Linda Janecek (FBR), Sandra Sowards (FHC), Gerry Taylor (FSR). Brian Smith (HC), Shawn Earl (HF), Ronald Lundy (MBF), Paul Emery (MBO), Martin Clough (MBR), Richard Farkas (MCBH), Conrad Jones 111 (MCU), CraigGraniteo (MTRD), Bob Bass(RU), Kati Stephens (YF) and Jacob Wukie (YMF). Great shooting everyone, and congratulations to all! It was a tough weekend of shooting for everyone, but then, it was supposed to be! This tournament is a great warm up for what is to come at the LB.O. World Chamionship, high atop Snowshoe Mountain in August! Yes, the toughest shoot is still yet to come! Hope to see you al) there!
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