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Sharp shooting by local archers

Dozens draw bows at Bighorn Archery Club Traditional 3D Shoot
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Kiara Pratt took aim at an outdoor 3D shoot organized by the Bighorn Archery Club near 100 Mile House that drew close to 80 archers on July 19-20. Pratt is the club's newly appointed youth liaison.

Seventy-seven shooters from British Columbia and Alberta participated in the Bighorn Archery Club's Traditional 3D Shoot in the trails at the 100 Mile Snowmobile Clubhouse near 100 Mile House on July 19-20.

Shirley Boyd finished first while local archer denise swift placed second and Myrna McDonough third in the master's longbow category on the women's side.

Jessie Mobbs won adult longbow while local Tamara Van Loon won second and Shar Dumont finished third.

Mavis Skerry finished first in adult recurve with 100 Mile House area shooter Denise Nelson finishing second and Trista Reichardt coming third.

In the men's category, local archer Allen Pickering won first place, followed by Stanley Boyd in second and Lucky McDonough in third, in master's longbow.

Adult longbow saw Shane Green, Gordon Price and Lloyd Wetton place first through third, respectively.

Lorne McBeth was first in master's recurve. Tom Helmer was second and local shooter Frank Lanchester was third.

Adult recurve saw Dan Mobbs win, followed by 100 Mile House area participants Bob Plewes in second and Jason Ruscheinsky in third.

Local shooters Wesley Silverton won the youth longbow category and Baden Riley won youth recurve.

Local Kiara Pratt was number 1 in the junior female recurve division.

Roman Zabaras of 100 Mile House was the best shooter in the cub longbow category, while Cody Plewes and Cole Skerry went first and second, respectively, in cub recurve.

Calleigh Skerry won the tot (under seven years) recurve category.

Three locals finished at the top of the primitive masters division: Ted Swift in first, Don Dickerson in second and Fred Vincenzi in third.

Dirk Dunkel was the best primitive adult shooter.

Participation awards went to Kyle Kansky in the cub division and Jenna Kansky in tot.

A secondary event called the Hunter's Course Novelty Shoot saw 39 archers take aim at a 15 target course set up as hunting shots. The winner was D. Mobbs from William's Lake.