I was curious about 3-D archery competitions in your area. Do you go to them? How much to compete? Do the organizations who run them make money? Do they rent the targets?

I myself would like to run one.
i went to one that was set up nice but to pricey for me. 13.00 dollars to shoot and no competition set up. I would like to do it on the local golf course seeing it is out of season here.

Edited by - drache on 03/04/2002 11:20:37

I'm in two different archery clubs in middle TN. They are both setup as nonprofit. They buy their own targets and awards for the shoots. We use the targets for several shoots (normally a couple of years or 3 out of our McKenzie targets). We average about 70 shooters per tournament, and we have about 5 tournaments per year. We charge 10 dollars for 30 target tournaments and 15 for the 40 target tournaments. Some of our special shoots like our ASA qualifier's or when we have the state championship cost 20 dollars or whatever the paticular organization requires.

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I use to run shoots at my club, we ran two shoots a year, charged $6 for 30 targets, ran a hamburg/hotdog lunch thing, drew 100-120 shooters. Profit back to the club was around $2000. This did NOT include money for target replacement. Some smaller targets would last 2-3 shoots, larger ones lasted longer.

Alot of the money you make comes from food.

--Bob

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Around here (West GA/East AL) most every club shoots 20 targets. Cost is usually $15.00 for the payback classes and $10 for trophy classes. We payback 50% to 20% of the entrants. So $7.50 goes to the club and $7.50 goes to payback. We had our local Triple Crown type shoot a few weeks ago and entry fees were $10 more per class and that $10 goes to the final shooter of the year type deal. Now there we pay back the normal $7.50 and the the other $10 is also paid back after all 4 legs are shot.

Targets will be your biggest expense if you are going to do a start up. When we started we went out and found 2 $500 sponsors and then got lucky and got a bunch of targets donated.

We shoot all Rhineharts and have not even used the 2nd set of inserts.

Like some one else said we make a pretty decent amount of money off the food as well.

Good luck. Participation in GA is way up this year. Maybe you are catching the upswing of 3D archery.

We must be bad cooks or something. We do good to break even on our food, but we don't charge very much for it either.

If you get in the area where you have lots of archers the potential for good 3d is always a possibility. We have had a shoot every week this year since the second week in January and the smallest turnout was 122 and the largest was 157 shooters 2 weeks ago. I have been shooting in this league of 5 clubs for about 5 years and we average over ll0 shooters per week every year. If archers don't have activities to go to every week or at least every month they will find other activities to participate in. We shoot January Thru Sept and have done very well. Good Luck.