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Our Shooting Sports program has grown this year! We have a total of 274 members, many of whom are enrolled in multiple disciplines.

Due to large enrollment numbers, some adjustments have been necessary to ensure our practices are manageable and safe. For example, indoor Archery practices were split into two hours using last names, and .22 Rifle has limited practice signups.

Keep in mind that the Shooting Sports superintendents and leaders are volunteers. They share hours of their time and years of their expertise with our program. However, if we don’t have enough leaders available, it can affect how many members can be shooting at practice, and whether we can safely host practice at all.

This is a great time to become a 4-H volunteer. Once you’ve completed the process, ask the discipline superintendent how you can be helpful at practices this year. And if you decide you’d like to be a certified Shooting Sports leader, you’ll be able to register for the training next Spring right away. Click here for information on how to begin.

All of our Shooting Sports disciplines use Remind to send alerts for cancellations and other important alerts. This is the main avenue of communication. When possible, we also post to social media and our website, and the extension office might send an email if it’s during office hours. But Remind is the first line of communication.

You can choose to receive alerts via text messages, email, the Remind app, or any combination of the three. Be sure to choose each Shooting Sports discipline your family is involved in to receive its messages.

Click here to find detailed instructions for each discipline.

Please Note: Our Remind account will NOT allow members under the age of 13 to join.

Visit remind.com for details about the app and alerts.

Due to the large number of members participating in the archery program this year, we need to make some adjustments to our indoor practice schedule to accommodate the shooters safely in the limited space available.

We will continue the split practice for our last practice indoors on Tuesday, May 10th. This seems to be working well at having a manageable group for the space available. Please only attend your designated hour so all will have an enjoyable, safe practice. See the schedule below.

May 10

• 6:00–7:00 p.m. Last names beginning A–K

• 7:00–8:00 p.m. Last names beginning L–Z

If you are in the 6:00 time slot, please arrive 15 minutes early to help set up the range. If you are in the 7:00 time slot, please remain to help tear down the range. It should take only about 15 minutes for each set-up and tear-down.

Once we move outside on May 19th, we'll have plenty of room to accommodate everyone at practice, plus 3D targets.

We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday night.

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The Weld County 4-H Shooting Sports Council is sponsoring an invitational on June 4, 2022 at South Platte Historical Society Range in Fort Lupton, Colorado. Registration and check-in will begin at 8:00 a.m. and shooting will begin at 9:00 a.m.

Registration and Cost:

• Pre-register at this SignUpGenius link. Classes are $7 each before June 1. Any changes or new registrations after June 1 are $14 per class. Members can participate in a maximum of 4 classes.

Disciplines:

• Archery – Classes: Compound & Recurve

• .22 Rifle – Classes: Hunt, Scope, Sporter, 3P

• .22 Pistol – Intermediates and Seniors Only, Modified Camp Perry Round Only, No Silhouettes

• Muzzleloading

• Air Pistol

• Air Rifle – Classes: Utility, Sporter, 3P, Off-hand

Divisions:

• Juniors

• Seniors

Directions:

Take Hwy 85 to the north part of Ft Lupton, to WCR 14 ½ (stoplight) and turn west. Go west a short distance and then turn right on Historic Parkway. Follow the gravel road down to the range.

Questions:

Contact Ray Sagehorn at 720-244-0238 if you need more information.

Yuma County 4-H is hosting a Western Heritage, Muzzleloading, Outdoor skills Camp on June 14–16, 2022 at the Beecher Island Battleground historical site south of Wray, Colorado.

Registration will be via 4HOnline, and the deadline is June 1. Please see the attached flyer for more information.

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Do you want to get your hunter education card? Have you had trouble finding a local course with openings?

We are gauging interest to help us decide whether to host another hunter education opportunity.

The first half, the internet course, would need to be completed prior to the in-person portion, held on Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26.

To be eligible to compete at state shoot, should the member qualify, a hunter education card must be uploaded by July 1, 2022. This course would fulfill that requirement. And we will turn in the hunter ed cards to the extension office by the deadline.

Please click here to visit the poll and let us know that you are interested.

Park County is hosting a 4-H Western Heritage Invitational on June 4th and is inviting Western Heritage families to attend.

Registration opens on May 6 on 4HOnline, and will close on May 29. The registration fee is $25.

It will begin at 8:00 a.m. on June 4th at the Park County Shooting Range, 22535 County Road 15, Como, Colorado 80432 and try to complete four stages around 12:00 p.m. Then we will go to Fairplay so families can get lunch on their own. After lunch everyone will meet at the Fairplay Community Center at 880 Bogue Street, 80440, on the Fairgrounds for the Persona Interview and History Knowledge Exam. The results will be announced and families will be able to leave or take part in an optional tour of the South Park City Museum. South Park City is centered right in the sweet spot of the 4-H Western Heritage Project time period. It is a lot of fun and they have great artifacts from the era.

Keep your saddle oiled and your gun greased.

Darin Smith
Park County 4-H Extension Agent

Larimer County members: Reach out to Jackie Easthouse if you have any questions or are interested in attending.

Due to the large number of members participating in the archery program this year, we need to make some adjustments to our indoor practice schedule to accommodate the shooters safely in the limited space available.

Beginning with the Tuesday, April 26 practice, we are splitting the group by last name and assigning an hour practice time. Please only attend your designated hour so all will have an enjoyable, safe practice.

April 26

• 6:00–7:00 p.m. Last names beginning A–K

• 7:00–8:00 p.m. Last names beginning L–Z

May 3

• 6:00–7:00 p.m. Last names beginning L–Z

• 7:00–8:00 PM Last names beginning A–K

May 10

• To be determined

If you are in the 6:00 time slot, please arrive 15 minutes early to help set up the range. If you are in the 7:00 time slot, please remain to help tear down the range. It should take only about 15 minutes for each set-up and tear-down.

Once we move outside on May 19th, we'll have plenty of room to accommodate everyone at practice, plus 3D targets.

We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday night.