5-2023 News Letter

June 9-11: Northwest Mountain Challenge,
Dead-On Archery, Tamarack Resort.

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Keep an eye on the range calendar (on the wall, June 17-18: Gum Tree Shoot, Indian Head
by the door in the range) for events and Bowhunters, Cambridge Idaho.
activities going on at the range. Some events
are closed to open shooting and other activities
June 23-25: Tripod Shoot, Nampa Bow
allow open shooting, if there is room, while the Chief’s, Tripod Meadows, Smith’s Ferry Idaho.
activity is in progress.
See Flyer for more details.
June 3rd: 3-D Mini Shoot at the NBC Range
Newsletter 1
NFAA Upcoming Events 5 of our members made it to the podium. For
July 21-23: NFAA Outdoor National Field the Western Classic Trail Shoot the following
Championships, Darrington, Washington Bow Chiefs placed as follows:
Aug 18-20: North American Field Archery Chris Fong, Freestyle Youth Male, 1st (tie) (2nd
Championships, Clarkston, Michigan NFAA 3D National Championship)
JR Riggs, Bowhunter Freestyle Senior Female,
2nd (2nd NFAA 3D National Championship)
Next General Meeting Sarah Hammons, Freestyle Youth Female, 2nd
Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, (2nd NFAA 3D National Championship)
June 7, 2023. We will have a drawing for a Samantha Stidhem, Freestyle Cub Female, 3rd
$25 gift card to Texas Roadhouse. Kim Boyack, Bowhunter Freestyle Silver
Senior Female, 3rd (3rd NFAA 3D National
Championship)
Western Classic Trail Shoot
40 Nampa Bow Chief members made the trip to
Adam George had the highest score of all our
Redding, CA for the 39th Annual Western
members with a 1521 out of a possible 1540.
Classic Trail Shoot and 29th Annual NFAA
Great shooting Adam!
Marked 3D National Championship presented
Congratulations to all our members who
by the Straight Arrow Bow Hunters Inc.
1,340 shooters were there from Australia, competed in the shoot. A great time was had by
Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, the all. Pictures will be posted to our Facebook
page.
Netherlands, New Zealand and from practically
everywhere in the United States. Idaho had 145
Thank you from Russ Scharman
shooters.
The action began Thursday, May 4th with the Russ Scharman would like to thank the people
Blind Draw Team Event/Fun Shoot which gave who helped fix the kids’ bows at our little
shooters an opportunity to get in a little “Party”.
Frank Ambruso
practice. The main event began Friday
morning, May 5th. The Nampa Bow Chiefs had Bill Barr
an awesome showing of 35 shooters. Shooters Wayne Forrey
shot at 25 targets Friday, 25 targets Saturday Robert Zechmann
and 20 targets on Sunday for a total of 70 Cody Stidhem
Mike Stidhem
targets. Targets included the 101-yard bigfoot,
the 88-yard elk herd and 3-yard flies (giant and Chip Heffelfinger for making 2 strings for
houseflies with tiny dots). The weather was a the recurve bows. We fletched, straightened and
little sketchy throughout the competition with added nocks to approximately 50 arrows.
many archers ending Saturday a little wet.
Thanks to Adam George for arranging the
Sunday Shoot offs were held in between rain
showers. fletchings to be donated by Q2i.
Thanks to Frank for the pasta and Wayne for

Our own Chris Fong made it to the shoot offs in
the brownies. What was in those brownies that
a tie for 1st place with a 1511, for the NFAA
made everyone work so well?
Marked 3D National Championship, Freestyle
Youth Male.
May Meeting Summary
The shoot off was held at the 88-yard elk herd. Our May general membership meeting was held
Chris placed 2nd for the NFAA portion and tied Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 beginning at 7pm
for 1st for the Western Classic Trail Shoot. in the classroom at the indoor range.
Congratulations Chris! We are proud of you.
Newsletter 2
We voted on increasing membership and locker
fees. The range is becoming a bit more cluttered as
The new fee structure will be the following; more folks are using the range. Please pick up
Family with key $170.00 after yourselves as it will help all of us. Also,
Single with key $120.00 please double check that the doors are locked
Family no key $50.00 when you leave. We have found them unlocked
Single no key $40.00 in the past week.
Locker rental $75.00 per year for lockers.
We will have a sign-up sheet on the bulletin Please sign in when you use the range.
board for anyone who wants a locker. The sign in log is on the table to the left of the
office.
Any changes will not occur until January
2024. If anyone wants to donate lumber for the
construction of more lockers, please let a board
Thanks to Rick, Clayton, and Thom, the swamp member know.
coolers are both up and running.
The upcoming Tripod shoot is progressing with
To turn on the swamp coolers, use the timer that Cathy and Virgil heading up the shoot. Michelle
is to your right when you come into the range, said that she had the forest service permit and
to the right of the office door. Turn on the fans she also has acquired the trophies. We also have
to help circulate the air. The switch for the fans the porta-potties from a new supplier. S3DA
is on the wall to the right of the supply room. will provide food. We will need volunteers to
assist with the Tripod shoot.
If you are the last to leave, turn off the fans but
do not worry about the swamp coolers - let the Below you will find two links. The first link
timer run out. will take you to a volunteer sign up form. It
takes a lot of work to put on a shoot like this. If
HELP PRESERVE THE CARDBOARD you are interested in assisting, please go to the
Tripod Volunteer Link and let us know how you
In an effort to extend the life/usage of our can help.
cardboard butts in the indoor range, we are
asking shooters to try to shoot below the center Also, if anyone has a small trailer that we can
line and/or to shoot on and from the line use for trash at the Tripod shoot please contact
between the lanes. Basically, please try to Michelle Bollar or Cathy Dowell.
avoid the soft spots.
Online registration is available through June
We are hoping to avoid changing out the 15th. Please go to the Tripod Registration link
cardboard until this fall. If we can make it below. Each shooter needs to complete a
through the summer, that would be great. Rick separate entry form. The entry form contains
and Clayton tightened down the cardboard on details on the equipment rules for each class.
both the main butts and the roll aways.
If you have any questions about volunteering or
Some people have had arrows sink into the regarding the shoot, contact Michelle Bollar at
cardboard and seem to be rather aggressive in 208-869-1878 or Cathy Dowell at 208-954-
tearing into the cardboard to get their arrows. 2935.
Please stop it. If you could please try to push
your arrows back through from the back side https://nampabowchiefs.wufoo.com/forms/m1o
and use pliers to help grab and pull the arrows ysaf500xhcxn/
out, we would really appreciate it. Tripod Volunteer Link
Newsletter 3
https://nampabowchiefs.wufoo.com/forms/mkcf May Board Meeting Summary
4v90aefecn/ The board meeting was held right after the
Tripod Registration general membership meeting.
We will have a 3-D mini shoot on June 3rd. at

the indoor range. Please see the flyer for more
information. There will be a potluck after the We had a new member donate a brand-new
shoot. Awards for the spring 3-D league will be Diamond Edge XT bow that we will be raffling
after the potluck. Included is a copy of the flyer off. More on this later.
with this email.
There will be a memorial for Mary Sturm (Bill’s
We will also have a Work Day on June 4th. We Wife) on June 10th from 10am until 2pm at
will be cleaning up the trailer where the 3-D Bill’s home near Fruitland, Idaho.
targets are stored for the upcoming Tripod
shoot. The workday will start at 10am and end Meeting adjourned at 7:58pm.
at 2pm.
We want to give Thom Nichols a sincere thank

you for all that he has done in cleaning up
around the range.
Michelle Bollar won the gift card to Texas

Roadhouse.
2023 Bow Chief’s Board Members
President Zechmann Robert [email protected]
Vice President Bollar Ryan [email protected]
Treasurer Boyack Kim [email protected]
Secretary Bivens Bill [email protected]
Board Member Allen Clayton [email protected]
Board Member/Webmaster Bollar Michelle [email protected]
Board Member Chrislip Stewart
Board Member Foster Nathan [email protected]
Board Member Smith Hope [email protected]
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June 9-11: Northwest Mountain Challenge,

Dead-On Archery, Tamarack Resort.

Thanks to Frank for the pasta and Wayne for

We will have a 3-D mini shoot on June 3rd. at

We want to give Thom Nichols a sincere thank

Michelle Bollar won the gift card to Texas

2023 Bow Chief’s Board Members

President Zechmann Robert [email protected]

Vice President Bollar Ryan [email protected]

Treasurer Boyack Kim [email protected]

Secretary Bivens Bill [email protected]

Board Member Allen Clayton [email protected]

Board Member/Webmaster Bollar Michelle [email protected]

Board Member Chrislip Stewart

Board Member Foster Nathan [email protected]

Board Member Smith Hope [email protected]

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