With SAFETY as our main concern, the "Strictly Sticks Traditional Archers" 3D Shoot originally scheduled for this Sunday, Jan. 20, in Alverton has been CANCELLED due to the approaching weather system this weekend.
The Crew will simply have the scheduled SPAM shoot at our next shoot, scheduled for February 17, 2019. Please keep your fingers and toes crossed for decent weather by then!
The Crew appreciates everyone's understanding, and looks forward to a good get-together in February.
Til then, stay safe! And, THANK YOU...
Signed, The Crew of "Strictly Sticks"
I go out and buy snowshoes and you cancel the shoot? :)
With Just my booties on?
Ya trying to get me banned?
Sticks getting cancelled is a smart thing. Not like we would have driven there in freezing rain anyway. Live to shoot another day. No biggie.
I have a great spam fried in a cast iron skillet recipe:)
Calls for red onion, garlic and red wine:)
It would put hair on those merry mountain mens chest...
But that doesn't stop us from picking on Red:)
Just polish up your tv antenna there fuzz nuts:)
Those hills, on a quad and 12 foot critter-filled trailer, are rather nasty.....
I think I'll just set up the Bitz this weekend, get out the MEK glue, some hand-chopped feathers, and have a good-'ole fletching session, whilst Iron Butterfly's "Inna Godda DaVida" plays on a loop in the background....
Stay safe, warm, dry, and grounded this weekend, yinzall, and see ya in February...
There's nothing like fletching glue, Metallica, and PBR in a small unventilated room while the storm rages outside. Rock on.
Hayl I had all 3 of my kids there at 5 degrees and 7" of snow..... Jared werent even 11 yrs old! Jesse 9 and Jami 8. Man up! Ima join the local Campfire girls...... They's a tougher bunch! :)
Flat landers get stuck, mountain men stay in the house. Who is smarter?
Ifn I did get stuck it was because those were my "anythings better than a chebby, even my Dodge days." Adulthood found me in my F150:)
He's usually the one who gets asked to take group photos.
That's not too swift..
I use them for tomato stakes.....
LOL
We really tried....
They will get over it. Or not. Either way I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
Just emerged from the bow room to watch a little football by the fire place. Arrows in the fletching jig, Evanescence on the stereo, a PBR, and Duco, cold wind and ice outside. Good day. :)
Weather dances, incantations, offerings of sacrificial arrows, the opening of MEK glue containers, feather fletchings waved in the air (correct orientation, hawkeye)....all of these offerings will be accepted to appease Mother Nature and The Spirits of The Bow for our February shoot.
Too much bad mojo, and I'll just have to hang up my lefty recurve, and return to the Chippendales circuit.
The Crew consists of folks who work shift work and weekends, and are often only able to help for a short time period, sometimes an hour or so. Our active Crew is roughly 6 people for set up and tear down, of which 3 work shift work, 1 is a volunteer firefighter who is on 24/7 call, 1 is retired, and 1 travels 20 miles to help.
Our course pathways are never the same, shoot after shoot. (We try to keep our courses interesting and changing, unlike other groups who use the same manicured path shoot after shoot. Turkey at target 7. Bedded buck at 18. Standing bear at the old oak on 25. Rather uninspired, if you ask the folks who shoot with us.)
Our courses wind through two surrounding hillsides, that are daily visited by locals on quads, on motorbikes, and various other means. We are in an extremely rural area, where the locals consider any grounds near their homes to be their domain. Many times, we've set up a shoot on Saturday, to find the course decimated by Sunday morning. Animals knocked over. Pegs torn from the ground. Number stakes tossed everywhere. And materials...all of the above...gone missing. Plenty of quad tracks everywhere. And, happening not just in pleasant weather. More so during times when weather is bad, since that means more people are staying home, away from "road driving".
I applaud the Wapiti Archers, and their record for not cancelling shoots.
We, the Crew of "Sticks", tend to look at a larger picture. Safety...for everyone concerned. Safety for the persons who set up and tear down a course. Safety for the folks who are driving to our events, possibly driving from an area covered under blue skies, to arrive at a place covered in ice. And safety for everyone who may be walking along our courses. Snow and ice can have an interesting effect on branches and trees, especially in real-life settings which we use.
So, yes, we cancel. And yes, we may cancel based on the information we have received, reviewed, considered, and decided up, as a group.
We would rather cancel an event, and be wrong, than host an event, and hear that someone died or was injured as a result of them attempting to get to our event, or as a result of weather related Acts of God happening AT our event.
We value our friends an awful lot, because we want to continue seeing them under the best of circumstances.
Just sayin.
We (shooters) appreciate the efforts, hard work, and consideration The Crew has for us. We walk in the door and are greeted like family. Pretty rare thing these days.
Thanks for caring.
Red Beastmaster Thank YOU for caring about me:) XOXOXOXO LOLOLOLOL
*edited for smiley face:)
I thought you said every trad shoot has to have beef cake.
Well, you certainly have that covered too.
Are all of you saying (or asking) that:
If "Sticks" cancels a 3D shoot, BUT, if we have a beer cart, snacks, beef cake, and lounge chairs strategically placed throughout the woods, like the movie says, "If we (do) it, they will come" ?
Need to think about this. But I'm not driving the beer cart. Get that Phil guy....
