Indoor Formal-Tremonton

 

Mens Freestyle
Francisco Cantu 894 51X $272.35
Jessey Smith 893 53X $149.50...
Pete Thompson 889 34X $100.75
Kyle Douglas 888 51X $69.55
Judd Olsen 886 45X $57.85

 

Kyle took 3rd place and Kolt just shot the fun round!

 

 

EASTER JEEP SAFARI 2015

 

Homemade Ice cream on the jeep trail.... Yes please!!

 Lining up for the Big Saturday Jeep Parade

 

 Moab Rim

Reta falling down in the creek and giving us all a good laugh!

 



We had another fun trip at the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab. Can't wait till next year.

Friday Night Couples Leauge



Shawn and I had a great night at our Couples League Banquet. We both took 1st place, won a hand made knife, craftsman tools and a cute pink purse! We have so much fun and have made some really neat friendships along the way.

Cedar City Color Country Shootout

We had a fun weekend in Cedar city at the Color Country Shootout. They have some really neat custom made etched rocks they give to the winners. We were lucky enough to bring home 2 with us!  Kolt took 1st place and Shawn took 2nd Place in his division. Kyle shot in the money division and ended up placing 7th amongst the Pro's. They all shot so awesome. It was a 2 day tournament with the 1st day 3D and the 2nd day V formation 25 to 65 yards. As for me, I just shot the fun round.

Couples 3D Archery League @ Wilde Arrow

Shawn and I had a great night at our Couples League Banquet. We both took 1st place, won a hand made knife, craftsman tools and a cute pink purse! We have so much fun and have made some really neat friendships along the way. Good times!!!

Happy Birthday Kyle

Split Mtn. Archers-Vernal UT 3D Tournament

 

Shawn and the boys headed out over the weekend and shot in 3 tournaments. So far so good, Kolt placed 1st place in the 2 that were held in Vernal and will get a paycheck from both. Kyle placed 3rd and will also bring home some cash. Shawn well sad to say he was 1 person out of the money! Still waiting for the results from Heber City.

Golden Spike Archery-Tremonton-Hosted by Brigham Bowmen

 

 

Had a great day as a family at the shoot hosted by our hometown club! Kyle won the Men's Freestyle Bow hunter division and will bring home a little cash! He also won the blind shoot and got $52.50 from that. Not too shabby to bring home some cash on the weekends doing something you love and can do as a family! The rest of us just shot for fun and fun it was, Mommy had a good day and had so much fun teasing the rest while I was ahead. When it was all said and done Shawn beat me. Kolt did awesome and won the Grand prize at the raffle drawing. He brought home this awesome $300.00 sight for his bow. Great memories made here. A Family that shoots together stays together Ü

Standard Examiner

"Kyle Douglas, 17, of Harrisville, practices target archery with his compound bow at the indoor...

By TIM GURRISTER

Standard-Examiner correspondent

 

FARR WEST -- For three days Kyle Douglas' arrows pretty much all hit a two-inch spot dead center on target, earning him the Young Adult Championship at the World Festival of Archery.
“It's not a world title, but it was a world tournament,” said the modest 17-year-old from Farr West, he a member of the Brigham Bowmen archery club in Box Elder County.
“These are truly the best in the world,” countered Corey Barton, Brigham Bowmen president, in lauding Douglas for his performance in the tourney in Las Vegas earlier this month.
More than 2,600 archers, Barton said, competed from as far away as Europe and Japan. “It's the largest and most prestigious indoor archery tournament in the world,” he said, with a purse of $275,000.

Over the three days of shooting, Douglas' 93 arrows hit the 10-ring 90 times, the three misses hitting the 9 -ring. Inside the 10-ring is the bulls-eye, these days called the X-ring. Hitting the X-ring awards the same points as the 10-ring: 10, as the bowmen explained it. Hits on the X-ring are only recorded to break a tie.
Douglas’ first day target shows his perfection, all 30 shots hitting the 10-ring -- the X-ring is obliterated, gone, just a hole in the target.
His first day shooting drew a perfect score, a miss coming the second day, two on the last day. He was among 57 competitors in the 15-17-year-old age group of the young adult freestyle competition at the Feb. 6-8 Vegas tourney.
On the third day a competitor caught up with him, tying his score. So they had a 3-arrow "shoot-off": 10-rings all the way for Douglas, to outdistance the runner up.

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Douglas got his first compound bow when he was five years old, and has been shooting with father Shawn ever since. “My Dad's always shot as long as I can remember.”
Kyle's practice regimen sounds grueling. “I try to shoot daily,” he said. That's a minimum of two hours, usually three or four, either in his back yard or at the Brigham Bowmen's indoor range at Brigham City's Pioneer Park in the winter.
Typically, he practices five days a week. In the past year getting ready for the Vegas tourney, it's been daily, he said. Practice sessions are shorter in the winter, with drive time to Brigham.
But in the summer he'll put in as much as four hours a day. “Until I'm too tired to pull the bow back.”
He plans to move up to the adult men's amateur category next year at the Vegas meet, put on by the National Field Archery Association in Yankton, South Dakota.
Kyle this time won $3,500. The top prize went to the men's adult freestyle championship winner: $30,000.
He's old enough but feels sure he's not ready for that group, even though all the archers shoot the same distance -- the range of 20 yards, and the scoring is the same.
A total of 262 bowmen competed in the mens' championship tier at the Vegas world meet. Seventeen of them finished with perfect scores, Douglas said, necessitating four or five rounds of shoot-offs to crown the champ.
“It's people who shoot for a living,” he said. “The winner never missed the X-ring.”

Box Elder News Journal

Bowmen on target

Erin Young / Box Elder News Journal
Kyle Douglas raises his hand in victory after winning the Young Adult Freestyle Championship in a shoot out at the World Archery Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, the largest archery competition held in the United States.
By Sean Hales
Managing editor
The Brigham City-based archery group, the Brigham Bowmen, have experienced a significant amount of success recently, with members scoring big wins and notching top marks in state and international competitions.
At the top of that list is 17-year-old Kyle Douglas’ win at the 3-day World Archery Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, the largest archery competition held in the United States.
At the conclusion of 10 ends, Douglas and Sebastian Cooper of Missouri were tied for first with a score of 897/900. In the overtime end, Douglas edged Cooper, 29-28, to win the Young Adult Freestyle Championship.
“I was really nervous,” said Douglas, who got his first compound bow at the age of five. “I know the other kid shoots just as good as me and had just as good a chance at winning.” Not to mention the large crowd—including the more than 40 other members of the Brigham Bowmen cheering him on—and the TV cameras broadcasting the event over the airwaves.
In the end, Douglas relied on his training and three years of competitive shooting. He didn’t try to force anything.
“I just basically trusted my shot,” Douglas said. I just did everything I’d been practicing and hoped it would pull through for me.”
Brigham Bowmen president Corey Barton said Douglas’ feat under such circumstances is impressive, especially considering the pressure of the situation and the fact that archery is such a mental sport.
“That’s quite an accomplishment at such a young age,” Barton said. “That’s pretty overwhelming for most individuals and he handled it pretty well.”
Douglas is humble about his accomplishment, and doesn’t yet have any immediate plans to see how far his skills and talent will take him.
“I know there are people who shoot better than me,” Douglas said. “I had a good weekend and they didn’t have such a good weekend. I have a lot of practicing to do before I can be consistently on top.”
Barton said he thinks it’s only a matter of time.
“I fully anticipate him giving them a run for their money,” Barton said about Douglas’ graduation next year into the adult division. And beyond that, “I fully anticipate seeing Kyle shooting with the World Cup shooters.”
Douglas won $3,500 for the win, not including any considerations provided by his sponsors, PSE Archery and Gibson Archery in Brigham City. Douglas is a field staff shooter for both businesses.
Douglas was one of 22 Brigham Bowmen members who competed at Las Vegas, but only four others shot in the championship divisions: Rick Rallison and Jeff Lindsay in the Senior Division, Judd Olsen in the Male Freestyle Division and Kort Baird in the Young Adult Freestyle Division, along with Douglas.
About a week earlier, members of the Brigham Bowmen showed well at the Utah State 3-Spot Championship in West Jordan, with six shooters taking first place in their divisions and 12 archers overall finishing fifth place or better out of the 18 club members who competed in the event.
“I’m very proud of the level of performance we got out of our shooters,” Barton said. “I think that the level that our club is shooting is outstanding.”
Brigham Bowmen first-place winners at the state tournament were: Lexi Velasquez, Cub Female Bowhunter Freestyle; Erin Young, Adult Female Bowhunter Freestyle; Chris Barton, Senior Female Freestyle; Jeff Lindsay, Senior Male Freestyle; Marvin Bunderson, Silver Senior Male Bowhunter Freestyle; and Arlo Ward, Master Senior Male Freestyle.
Other placers were: Kort Baird, second, Young Adult Male Freestyle; Andy Ward, fourth, Adult Male Bowhunter Freestyle; Rick Rallison, fourth, Senior Male Freesyle; Amanda Ward, fifth, Adult Female Bowhunter Freestyle; Kolt Douglas, fifth, Young Adult Male Freestyle; and Shafer Martinez, fifth, Adult Male Bowhunter Freestyle.