I Can Kill A Dinosaur, But I Can't Kill A Moose

So this past weekend, was the first archery shoot of the year. It is BC's Largest Indoor 3D Shoot. Actually it is BC's only indoor shoot.

Justin and I have been going to the shoot for the past three years, but this is the first year that I participated in shooting also. It is the one time a year that we see different archer's from around BC, plus some from Washington. For example, our friend Dan is from The Nock Point down in Mountlake Terrace, WA. The only time we see Dan is at this shoot. We tried to get into a round with him but our timing just never worked out right. Oh well. There is always next year.

There is 15 targets in total. They range from 15 - 40 yards for the older people. They also have shorter range of smaller animals for children 12 and under. The furthest target of those is about 5 yards away.

This is a panoramic of a past shoot. I had my camera with me, but I never took any pictures. This is basically what the set up looks like. Each year they change what order the animals are in, except for the stupid moose. The moose seems to always be on shot 13 and it is the longest shot on the course at 40 yards. For some reason I could not shoot the moose at all. I have a 40 yard pin on my sight, but because my bow has a lower poundage, it doesn't have enough "umph" behind it to make it that far. I figured after our last round, that in order for me to hit the moose and not the wooden backstop, I would of had to have my pin all the way on the top of the wooden backstop to actually hit the moose itself.

At the end of the day they always have prizes and awards.

There is always little prizes like sights and rests. They also have prizes of a couple targets. And then the large prizes of bows. This year they had a long bow and a PSE Evo as the prize bows. We didn't win any prizes this year. It would of been cool to get the Evo though.

My favorite target is the T-Rex. He is about a 35 yard shot. And he was always a good shot for me. I don't know why, but I can kill the T-Rex quite well. This is what Mr. T-Rex looks like.  Except this year he was facing the right instead of the left. He also had a few wooden palm trees infront of him.

I think I did fairly well for my first time doing a shoot. We did three rounds in total. My scores for those three rounds were: 108, 73 and 74. That is out of a possible 150. Justin's scores were much more consistant at 132, 132, and 133. Needless to say, he is much better at it than I am.

This year we are going to try to go to as many of the shoots as we can. The rest of the shoots are outside, so that will definately be weather permitting. It will also depend on the terrain of the shoots, as with the hurt foot I can't exactly be galavanting through mountains and hills. There are two camp out shoots also. So those should be fun also.

Lastly, as I didn't take the photos, I just want to give credit to the person that did. I was able to find the pictures online here.