I used to be deep into traditional archery, years ago (late 80's early 90's) went to a local 3d shoot and they had set up a competition novelty "running deer" on a cable, you'd pay 5 buck for three shots as they ran it past the firing line, I was just a second level shooter but occasionally competing with the big deal guys on scores, anyway..I hit the kill zone with my first arrow on the first pass to advance to round two, maybe 25 guys out of a few hundred had advanced over the afternoon, round two came and it was the same deal, first arrow kill and I walked into the final round with about 5 others guys, all were real shooters from all over the place, got a beer or three in me to calm my nerves for the final round, and put my third arrow dead nutts perfect into the kill like a boss for the win, it was kinda a big deal at the time...to me anyway. Won a custom longbow that a local bowyer had donated, was cool that I won that contest and bow with one of the bows that he had made.
That was a good bow and I still have it, even killed a running 4 point bull with it that year.
are you talking about Cedar River Bowmen range up towards the Sammamish Plateau? they had the same thing, i won it a couple times... Bow-nanza was the name of the 3d shoot and was the largest in the state at that time... i was a kid at that time, but won the youth tournaments several times.. my dad and uncle kicked ass on the adult side, as well as Bob and Wally Sherrard, Merv, Jay, ect..
my dad was on the board of directors there so we always had to go and do setup and takedown on the range both bail side and 3D side in the trails..
they also used to stick a Polar Bear up on the bail range where the deer was at, at about 60-80 yards and did the same thing, closest to the red dot in the kill zone won... i won that once...
if its the same range, which im assuming it is, you were there when i was there, and were likely competing against my dad, not so much my uncle as he was pretty much target compound.. he still shoots for Hoyt and won the nationals for the senior class in 2012 i think it was...
i still have the Martin Little John i used in the tournaments, as well as the Browning recurves...
might have to take the Blackhawk out to my buddies and shoot it, been a little while...
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