In less than 100 days(couldn't wait for Bear)the Tennessee Classic will officially begin. Before we all know it we will be packing up our vehicles and getting ready for the drive, some quite long, some not so long. In the next 100 days we still have plenty of time to make or find something to add to the raffle table.
After seeing all the work that Pappy and the Twin Oaks guys do to make this the best traditional archery shoot in the US, making sure we are all comfortable and most of our needs are taken care of, making sure we all have a great experience I think it is only right that we give a little back to them. Over the last 8 years or so that I've been going to the Classic I've seen Pappy and the Twin Oaks gang do whatever they have to to make this an experience we will not soon forget, an experience we will want to enjoy for years to come.
Lets all take a little of our allotted bow building time and make or come up with something to go on the raffle table at the Classic. Most, if not all of the monies collected from the raffles goes back to the Twin Oaks Club to help with the cost of the Classic. Just think how much just the many port-a -Johns cost to rent, the hot shower, how about all the 3D targets, gravel for the roads and not the mention the hundreds or possible thousands of man hours that goes into the making of the Tenn Classic...and you can enjoy it all for just the $20 sign up fee. Where else can you get sooooo much for soooo little. Where can you, and your family get such an inexpensive vacation and with some of your best friends from all over the US and other parts of the world.
In a few minutes I'll be heading down to my basement workshop to start the second part of this years donation for the Classic. You probably remember the little sinew backed osage bow, "Gidget" I made last fall, from a stave given to me by Gun Doc at last years Classic. Well to add to that I'm also going to make a coyote plains style quiver and hopefully a set of hill cane or sourwood arrows to go along with it. I'm trying to top my last year donation. That was a hickory backed lemonwood ALB style bow, side quiver and 3 old Bear arrows that Pearlie sent to me. That set yielded $700 for Twin Oaks at the raffle table and I am very proud of that. I want this years offering to make more for these great guys and their great shoot.
I'll post pics as I progress with this years offering and hope you will do the same. Post them here in this post. It doesn't have to big or expensive or even hand/homemade but it should be something that folks will bid on. So, this is my challenge to all of you that are going to the Classic this year. Even if you aren't going but want to contribute, this is the easiest way to go. Lets all show Pappy and the Twin Oaks gang just how much we appreciate them, all the work they do and the Tennessee Classic.
