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The Coon Shoot

Saturday, September 19 · Registration 6 PM · Shooting after dark

Twenty raccoons. A course of their own. No daylight.


You have already walked forty scenes today.
Now do it in the dark.

The Coon Shoot is its own course — twenty raccoon 3D targets, set completely separately from the forty scenes you shot all day. Same woods, entirely different problem.

Depth goes first. Then the edges of things. You will range a target twice and still not quite believe it. Somebody in your group will call a distance with total confidence and be wrong by eight yards.

It is the most fun anybody has all weekend, and it is the thing people are still talking about the following September.

An archer at full draw on a lit target after dark

The details

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    Saturday, September 19 — registration opens at 6:00 PM and runs until dark. The course opens 30 minutes after sunset, around 8:20 PM.
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    20 raccoon targets on a dedicated night course
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    Bring a headlamp. This is not optional.
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    $15 for 12 and up  ·  $8 for ages 9–11  ·  under 9 free
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    Three ways to sign up:
    1. Buy online through Zeffy — easiest, and it gets you a free BAC patch plus a scorecard ready at check-in
    2. Add the Coon Shoot when you register for Wing Ding during the day — one stop at the table, done
    3. Register on site from 6:00 PM on Saturday
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    Any bow, any class — traditional, compound, whatever you brought
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    Dinner is served 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the kitchen — ham and beans, red beans and rice, homemade ice cream. $5 a plate, and it all goes to Troop 1119. Eat before you shoot.
Raccoon 3D targets staged on a fallen log

An example of what a coon setup looks like — the twenty you shoot on the night will be set differently.

More than thirty people walked it last year. Only nine turned in a scorecard — everybody else came out just to shoot it in the dark. That tells you what kind of event this is.

The Coon Shoot is part of Wing Ding

Our biggest event of the year — September 19 & 20. Forty staged 3D scenes across forty acres, free camping Friday and Saturday night, a home-cooked kitchen all weekend, overall awards for both traditional and compound, and a raffle table with a custom Timberhawk bow on it.

Signing up online is easiest, but you can also add it at the Wing Ding registration table during the day, or register on site from 6:00 PM.

Come for the weekend. Stay up for the coons.

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Bloomington Archery Club 5960 W May Rd, Bloomington, IN 47403
(812) 754-0072 · bloomingtonarcheryclub@gmail.com