Keith,

It is not my club or my league that has me concerned. Go to any kind of National competition and look at the number of classes and divisions. Many of these classes do not have numbers that are worthy of being maintained as a class. If at a national competition a class can not draw more than three competitors it is not a competitive class.

Our league is very successful and draws over 100 shooters a week every week for 34 weeks a year. None of these are IBO shoots and no trophies are awarded till the end of the year. The cost is $8.00 each week with special prices for family and youth shooters.

If an organization has these classes available for people to choose from many of them will pick the class with the least competition. The HC has turned out to be just the opposite. Each year more people join this class not just to be winners, but to participate in a class that best describes their type of shooting as they determine it. If this class keeps getting bigger every year and overall archery is growing who is to say that the shooters can not shoot in a class that choose regardless of their skill.