A little bragging

  • 2jranch
    Arcadia, WI
    Posts: 851
    February 27, 2007 at 1:49 am #1253678

    I hope you guys don’t mind, but attached is a link to a video taken last week when my son competed in the Wisconsin State Tournament for Indoor Archery. He had competed the week before at the World Indoor in Las Vegas, and tied for 1st with 25 of 245 shooters in his class. At the State Touney, he took 2nd, and he will be heading to Nationals in 2 weeks. The tounament in Las vegas was his first touney as a Pro, with a new bow he picked up 2 weeks prior, and he had switched from Bowhunter to Freestyle, which is quite an equipment change. Anyway……thought I’d share.

    web page

    Let me know if the link works, otherwise I can try another way.

    June

    G_Smitty
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 1359
    February 27, 2007 at 2:01 am #541987

    HUZZAH! Good for him… warped me back to when my oldest son was a Massachusetts state champ in air rifle and small caliber and place well in pistols.

    Shooting sports are an awesome outlet… I just hope my son DOESN’T need to call on his skills while in Afghanistan serving in the Air Force…

    2jranch
    Arcadia, WI
    Posts: 851
    February 27, 2007 at 2:06 am #541992

    Quote:

    I just hope my son DOESN’T need to call on his skills while in Afghanistan serving in the Air Force…

    Sounds like you should be the one bragging. Tell your son we all thank him for the job he is doing.

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    February 27, 2007 at 2:07 am #541993

    That is absolutely FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Man! That is some SERIOUS nail driving!!!!!
    Tell him for me!

    pool13_jeff
    NW, IL
    Posts: 884
    February 27, 2007 at 2:49 am #542031

    2j,
    That’s awesome!! He did an excellent job!

    mrcrappie
    mn Dodge co.
    Posts: 1133
    February 27, 2007 at 10:09 am #542116

    Congrats, Does he take after his dad?

    2jranch
    Arcadia, WI
    Posts: 851
    February 27, 2007 at 1:17 pm #542128

    Nope, he follows in his Mom’s footsteps……..and then passed me by. I was WI state indoor and outdoor champion for years, only made it as far as 2nd at Nationals……….but that was a long, long, time ago……..in a galaxy far, far away……..under the rule of the evil Emporer……and when I left, he got custody of the archery club, so I sort of drifted away form it. But Grant is like a shooting machine when he’s on the line. Way better than I ever thought of being.
    June

    Arzie
    East Bethel, Minnesota
    Posts: 426
    February 27, 2007 at 1:37 pm #542134

    I couldn’t see anything!!!

    Dean Marshall
    Chippewa Falls WI /Ramsey MN
    Posts: 5854
    February 27, 2007 at 1:55 pm #542148

    Congrats! I too shot in the nationals in Las vegas quite a few years ago…..talk about nerve racking…being on the same line with all the big names.I will never forget it.

    orion94
    them thar hills, SW Nebraska
    Posts: 173
    February 27, 2007 at 2:39 pm #542172

    Awesome Congrats. Nothing like the discipline of the shooting sports and especially the mystical flight of the arrow >>>——>O .

    2jranch
    Arcadia, WI
    Posts: 851
    February 27, 2007 at 2:51 pm #542181

    Quote:

    Congrats! I too shot in the nationals in Las vegas quite a few years ago…..talk about nerve racking…being on the same line with all the big names.I will never forget it.

    Why, Dean, you old dog………I’d never have taken you for a sliverslinger. How many years back was that?

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22458
    February 27, 2007 at 3:24 pm #542199

    WOW

    big g

    Dean Marshall
    Chippewa Falls WI /Ramsey MN
    Posts: 5854
    February 28, 2007 at 2:27 am #542512

    Early to mid 80’s.My brother and I finished 1st and 2nd four years in a row at the first outdoor Badger State Games.Way back when a Martin Cougar-Mag was state of the art at 200 ft/sec! Man I am getting old!

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