Resurrected Range.

[wormfood]

I have taken over as archery chair at Upper Nisqually Sportsmen club and could use a little help. A quick run down on what I know of the history of this young range. A couple years ago archery became a topic at the club and soon a flat range came to be. Soon after the flat range came a small walk through with 19 stakes aimed at 16 bales. The 4-H group and their parents put a bit of work into it and the 4-H state championship was held at the club this year. Ok now to me, I have been involved for about 10 to 12 years and have shot many a 3-d tournament and a couple state shoots. I was a member of Skookum for a couple years and helped a little their and I have been pretty active at TSC for the past few years and have helped and been involved with alot of the shoots.In the last 2 months I have put in about 60 hours workin on the ranges, I have cleaned and trimmed all of the walk through and groomed the flat range as well as I can for now and am currently cutting trail in the timber to add a second walk through. Supposedly their is a separate archery  account with a very small amount of funds and I am trying to do as much as I can without any cost to the club. I know that the club , in the past has put money into trying to make archery happen here. I need to  throw a shoot to show the board that archery will be a positive new venture to the structure already in place. I have a few ideas to get people and business to sponsor targets in exchange for advertising but that will take time.I have a couple people starting to jump on board with me and that will make thing easier but what I really need right now is a way to come up with 30 or 40 3d's so I can just throw a 1 day shoot and seriously show the club what archery is all about. Living in Eatonville I have no doubt that people will come and shoot(as long as its not a weekend competing with other local clubs)and I am very eager to try to make it happen sooner than later. I feel as if I am headed in the right direction but just curious  if any one has, say 30 3d's they might want to loaned out for a weekend? Anyways any thoughts or ideas would be helpful and please let me that when the time comes and I post UNSC holding its first archery 3d shoot that you all are comin.

[wormfood]

I wonder if any of the sponsors on here would be interested in some more advertising?

[wormfood]

Come on with how many guys on here so opinionated, I cant believed I dont have someones 2 cents yet.

[wormfood]

Anybody, Anyone?

[KillBilly]

Just exaclty where is this Range? I don't have any 3d's but I could probably help out in some way. I'll donate $25.00 in the name of WFW if we can get a 3d with Dales picture on it.....

[wormfood]

The range is in Eatonville at the end of Lynch Creek Rd.  Really is a very cool range. For gun and rifle there is a 50, 100, 175,550, and a 600 yard range but the 600 is for special events only. The sporting clay range is remarkable and I plan on using part of it  for archery shoots. The upper part of the range is actually in the rimrocks and it really is pretty cool. I really look forward to puttting a moving billy goat on those rocks some day. Maybe one or two guys from wfw are willing to kick in and get a full target sponsorship. The sponsorship/advertisement will the stay with the target for the life of the target. Thanks for support.

[wormfood]

 Hey while I am still logged on if you are willin to do 25$ for wfw I too am willin to do 25 for wfw. That gets us to a very very small target of half way to a small sized target.

[NWWABOWHNTR]

Pretty tough to get started. Our club, WHidbey Bowmen has been around for a long long time, we spend $6-7,000 annualy in upgrading/replacing targets.  Best way to raise money is to have shoots... but to have shoots you need the initial investment to buy the targets... catch 22.... You should be able to talk to some of the closer clubs to you that are selling used targets to get you started... (I am talking 3D targets) for practice range butts, get compressed straw to get started.  WE compress 2 bails into one.... however we are replacing all of our old trail course butts with new foam butts from here:
http://www.archerytargets.com/Elastafoam.aspx

If you get an active membership there is a lot you can do to cut costs.... good luck!

[wormfood]

Thanks for the link. How well does the foam last? Looks like a hell of a good idea. There are carpet bales on the flat range already and I have a few of the super compressed straw bales sitting on the side lines. I am just tryin to come up with a way to through a shoot and start getting 3d's. I think I can I think I can.

[Wa hunter]

Worm
Possible you can do a safari type shoot to get things started?

[KillBilly]

Would you guys mind if I open the WFW Archery Committee to continue this discussion?
If you want to,
Go here to Archery Committee: http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,78524.new.html

[MLBowhunting]

i have some used 3ds you could use.  roughly 8 to 12.  they are used and shot up but thats what they are for 

[NWWABOWHNTR]

You can repair shot out 3D targets, a little bit of insulation spray foam and a knife.... a little paint and you are good. 

[Special T]

http://www.washingtonarchery.org/
They are the states main resource for helping shooting clubs... Some one from a closer club may be of more assisatnce...
As far as repairing 3d targets you can get cheeper used ones, but usually the cost of fixing them makes up the difference unless they wee free or already woned by your club. The best way we have found.. Silver Arrow Bowmen... is to use silicone calulking... the down side is it takes quite a while to cure... much longer than a week... @ weeks might do if you let them "Cure" in some sunshine and get nice and warm...

[JKEEN33]

I would try contacting a club and see if they would rent you the targets for a weekend.