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IBA
President Message What
a great Fall Festival!! Only way it could have been better was 20 degrees
cooler. Thanks to everyone that made it to the FF and fought the heat. I’ve got a
ton of people to thank, Cal Struchen & Bob Branchcomb for the awesome range
set up. I don’t believe we have ever received some many compliments on the
course. They had a ton of help, thanks to everyone involved. Basically we had a
three day shoot this year; everything was ready by Thursday evening. Big thanks
to Larry Krohn, Tom Vogel and Dana Canfield for setting up and running the
novelty shoots. Thanks to their new ideas they raised a thousand dollars for the
Bowhunter Defense Fund. Big thanks to Pine Lake Archers for all the meals they
served. Special THANKS to all the businesses,
companies and individuals for their generous donations, without your help the FF
wouldn’t be possible. We gave away several hundred dollars of merchandise
Saturday evening. We gave away 2 bows over the weekend thanks to the generosity
of Scott Wymore and Rick Motzko. There are many
more people who stepped up to help, thanks to all of you; I apologize for not
listing you by name. We did have two
incidents at the FF that I find very disturbing. First of all someone
deliberately broke the legs off a brand new buffalo, antlers were ripped off the
animals and thrown in the weeds, this is the second year we have had vandalism
on the range. Last year it was a buffalo and an elk. If it continues we will buy
40 deer, turkey and coyotes. It takes a lot of money to set up the range like it
was this year and we can’t continue to buy the large animals only to have them
destroyed. Even more
disturbing was the fact that we had a thief in our group, someone stole a
Mathews Switchback from a fellow bowhunter, doesn’t get much lower than that.
If you know of someone that shows up with a new bow and no probable way to pay
for it contact me. We have a $500 reward for the return of the bow.
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