Woods Walk Targets and Handicaps?

[76monza]

Need some help guys.
Been saddled with the task of putting together a two day primitive shoot. I'm going to have the first day consist of a 19-shot woodswalk, knife and hawk throw.
You all have any ideas how I can make this more interesting than just shoot'n steel silohuettes? Time and lack of money are as usual an issue. Any different "handicaps" I can impose on the shooters? Different style of targets? I wasn't thinking of a seneca run or a team elimination, but that's always possible.

smokeydays

 

[Ohio Joe]

Last year at our local Rendezvous we had sort of a different kind of woods walk. The man in charge hid animal targets in certain locations. We went off in two man teams on a trail and had to look for them.

They were hidden good! Anyway, only one team member would shoot at any one target. You rotated... Now, to make things interesting, there were rubber poisonous snakes hidden along the trail you had to watch out for. Step on one or come to close, your team lost points.

There was also a pouch of gold (not real, darn it) hidden along the trail. Find that and you gain points. It was interesting and fun.

Thing is, it is really time consuming doing something like this. Poor ol' Cobb never got a break takin' teams out on the trail, but we kept him supplied with,,, well let just say he didn't get thirsty or hungry, just tired! :haha:

One highlight about this that is overlooked is that each team who follows the next,,, if they got their witts about them can read sign where the team(s) who had went a head stopped and took shots at hidden game targets, or avoided snakes, and maybe even struck gold. Ol' Bill and I never told anyone we were readin' sign! :haha:

 

[76monza]

Hey Ohio Joe,

We don't have to hide rubber snakes! there's plenty of the real ones. As far as the gold or treasure goes, we send "TexiKan" through first. He's usually dropping enough stuff to make it worth our while!!
Seriously thanks for the tips that might help to make this a bit more interesting.

Smokeydays

 

[TexiKan]

Yeah..........you'll be surprised when I go through, dropping some of those varmit traps for you to find....! We'll see how well ya shoot with crunched fingers and toes...! :blah:

TexiKan
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A man cannot build a reputation on what he is going to do!

 

[MacTavish]

One of the different shots I've seen uses a set of fire irons. The cross bar is set at an angle (not a very severe angle, but about 5

 

one of the best targets i have ever seen was Mojo the Cat at the Fish Creek Free-For-All in Muir, Michigan.

Mojo was a simple little knock down target shaped like a black alley cat. BUT, you had to duck under a ladder to which a big chunk of broken mirror was attached. You had to shoot while squatting under the ladder. To top it all off, Mojo was the 13th target.

Now, some people are superstitious, some people aren't....I am in a big way. I believe in signs, omens, bad luck, bad Juju, whatever you want to call it, so I shot the woodswalk from back to front, making Mojo my second target. For all of the times that I have gone up to shoot at Scott's place, I have yet to miss Mojo....he's the only target I even care about!!!

playing cards set on their side is always fun. No points unless you completely cut the card in half. Also, a soup can or tennis ball call with the bottom cut out and a cheese ball suspended in the middle--you have to hit the puff without touching the can--always entertaining.

Keep you eyes on Buckskinner's "For the Booshway" section for ideas.

Stumblin