Day one of the shoot

Saturday morning bright and early..

Like 6am Nevada time.. 5 am Utah time we headed up to the Ruby Mountains outside of Elko for the shoot

This was Chris and I's first time

Mom, Dad, Todd and Jana are season veterans here

We drove up to a beautiful canyon for the shoot

I never knew Nevada could be so pretty

The practice range

Registration, raffle and breakfast area

We registered, put on all our gear and headed out to shoot

Mom painted her fingernails to match her bow

So just as a little briefer.. this is an example of a target

There is a TINY inside ring =12 points

Smaller outter ring around the 12pt ring = 10 points

Outter circle around that =8 pts

Thin line around the insert and anywhere on the body =5pts

Each target has the same rings on it.. just in different places,, different sizes etc

The targets can be anywhere from 2-50 yards out 

The animals arent just standing broadside.. some are angled so that cuts the ability to hit the rings in half..some are turned away..some are partially obstructed by rocks, trees, weeds etc

Me and the hubs

This being my first non bowmen kinda big shoot I was a little nervous but way excited!

The first day we all got to shoot together in a group

The yardages are not marked so you have to guess

You have to stand at a marked spot, decide where the rings are on the animals (you can use binoculars but no rangefinders) and shoot hoping you are close

We all wore our Be a Girl shirts to look like a team and show some Brigham Bowmen support

Everyone called us the PINK team and it really made us stand out!!

Me

Jana

Todd

Dad

Chris

There are 40 targets on this course

some high, some steep,some drastically downhill, some on level ground

Jana and Mom doing scores

Dads watching moms shot

If you look really close you can see the target just over 40 yards away.. you had to shoot through the tree.. 

Alligator on the riverbank

Todd standing up on a rock to shoot it

Shooting two fish on the bottom of the bank

I shot the fletching off moms arrow

Our one and only group picture with all of us!

hiking down to the targets

Theres actually a target in this picture can you see it!?

You miss it and you destroy your arrow on the rock

There are actually TWO targets on this steep hillside.. see them!?

After we finished shooting and hiking our 40 targets we handed in our scores

We put up the canopy and grilled up some brats for lunch

We bs'd for a while with two archers from Idaho 

Shared some lunch with them

After our long sunburned, hot, dusty, sunny day we headed to a store or two, went to the hotel to clean up and go to dinner

My dad loves this chinese place there 

The food was pretty good

We ate til we couldnt breathe

Then headed over to the Stockmens casino just to say we had been there

None of us did very well there at all!!!

We went back to our hotel

I wanted some couples shots!

Mom and Dad

Me and Chris

Todd and Jana

We all crashed early and went to bed

We were freaking beat!