Lancaster Archery Classic

My family (Wendy, Emma, and I) decided to attend the 2022 Lancaster Archery Classic held on January 27 to January 30 of 2022. We had a wonderful time and I wanted to cover what we learned in case it helps others in the future. I’ll list information here for the entire Lancaster Archery Classic experience, covering nearly every topic one might want to know before attending. I will be as detailed as possible even though it means this will be a lengthy post.

Table of Contents

Signing Up

Signing up was $150 per person and relatively easy, but the earlier you sign up is the more likely you’ll get the time slot you want. Online registration began on October 6th in 2021 for the 2022 Classic. When signing up you are given a few options, such as whether or not you want to pay an extra $15 for unlimited practice range access within Spooky Nook and whether you want a shirt or not. You need an RCherz account to sign up.

The first stage of the Lancaster Archery Classic is the qualifications, and this is what you initially sign up for. If you do well enough in qualifications, you’ll make it to head-to-head eliminations on Saturday morning. If you make it through all your elimination matches, you are then in the finals that are broadcast live on YouTube either on Saturday or Sunday, depending upon which division you are in.

The qualifications stage is like your typical archery tournament: two rounds of 30 arrows each, for a total of 60 arrows. Your choice of time is either Thursday at 12 PM or 4 PM or Friday at 8 AM, 12 PM, or 4 PM.

The Friday 12 PM line is generally the line that fills up fastest and usually has many of the ”big name” archers in it (but not all of them). By the time I signed up on 11/22/21 the Friday 12 PM line was full, so I chose the Friday 4 PM line. Which line you sign up for depends upon your own likes, dislikes, and constraints. For the 2022 tournament the lines had the following number of archers:

• Thursday 12 PM: 69
• Thursday 4 PM: 101
• Friday 8 AM: 253
• Friday 12 PM: 517
• Friday 4 PM: 519

If you want to shoot with a lot of archers, choose a Friday line, preferably 12 PM or 4 PM. If you don’t want to shoot with a lot of archers, choose a Thursday line. Some people like to shoot on the Thursday line so they aren’t shooting with as many archers and it therefore runs a little quicker, or also because they can shoot, relax on Friday, and watch some of the matches while keeping track of scores on Rcherz. Such a strategy can potentially backfire, though, if you shoot a score that you know will be close to the elimination ”cut line”—then you may be the type to worry on Friday all day. The downside to the Friday 4 PM line is that by the time you finish shooting it will be around 8 PM. In 2022 I think the 4 PM line finished after 8 PM. If you shoot well enough to make qualifications you’ll be a bit wired, you’ll want to get something to eat, etc. By the time you hit the sack it may be a bit late to get a good sleep before eliminations.

Update: Registration opened up for the 2023 Classic on 10/3/22. the Friday 12 PM filled up with 536 archers in it by 10/14/22. The Friday 4 PM line has 324 registrations as I write this on 10/20/22–so 211ish openings left.

I’ll now give you important notes to be aware of at the ”high level” view for quick reading and the “medium level” view for more details.

High Level Notes on the Important Stuff: Participating in the The Lancaster Archery Classic

1. Get the practice range pass for each archer when you sign up online.
2. Pick up your registration packet when you get to Spooky Nook.
3. Get a parking pass for the number of days you need.
4. Download the RCherz app so that you can easily track scores in real-time while you are there.
5. You’ll probably want to store your equipment in the equipment room at Spooky Nook.
6. Get to practice ranges about 2 hours before you shoot to ensure you get a spot. There are two practice ranges that I’ll show in the map later in this post.
7. Practice ranges are open until 9 PM at night.
8. Get to bed early if you make eliminations.
9. Save your target name tag from qualifications to use during eliminations. If you misplace it you can make one before eliminations, but try not to misplace it.
10. Regardless of whether you make the Shoot Up Finals or not, attend some of them for two reasons: to attend a great event and to get used to the finals just in case you make it some day.

Medium Level Notes on The Important Stuff: Participating in The Lancaster Archery Classic

1. Enter the front door of Spooky Nook and get a parking pass at the help counter as soon as you walk in. We got one for three days. You’ll end up saving some money, usually, because on at least one day you’ll visit Spooky Nook at least twice and without the parking pass you’ll have to pay $10 per visit—plus having the pass makes it easy to get out of the parking lot because you only have to hold up the pass to the attendant.
2. After getting your parking pass, walk to the right (as you stand at the help counter facing the front doors) to get to the registration area where you can get your tournament card and swag bag. This is the first thing you should do once you get to Spooky Nook unless you’re planning on just watching for your first visit. If you plan on watching only, then perhaps watch first and register on your way out (so that you don’t have to carry your swag bag and tournament card).
3. You can practice in Spooky Nook or Lancaster Archery Supply. Lancaster Archery Supply practice is free but about 15 minutes away from Spooky Nook, and practice at Spooky Nook costs you $15 per person for unlimited shooting. You pay the $15 optional fee during online registration.
4. There is a room at Spooky Nook, on the first floor and right near the tournament ranges, dedicated to storing your equipment. You don’t have to use this but you can if you’d like. It’s nice because otherwise you have to carry around your archery gear during the tournament and to/from your lodging. It’s great to leave your lodging without any equipment, saunter into Spooky Nook empty handed, stroll around a bit to see some archers and to say hello, and then when the time is right to then get your equipment to start shooting. It’s also nice to put your equipment back in the room when done shooting so you don’t have to walk around with gear. We kept our stuff in here and got ready in this room so that we only had to carry around our stand and bow. It’s also great to not have to carry equipment from your car because it can be a long walk from your parking spot to enter the building, and then it’s another somewhat long walk to get to the archery ranges (including practice ranges).
5. Note: One of the practice ranges is directly above the equipment storage room.
6. Barebow note: You may want to think about using a compound bow stand because it’s easier to carry. This is the kind of stand that can clip onto your limbs, allowing you to place the bow with the string up and, while you shoot, keep the stand in your quiver. You’ll be moving around a lot and having a lightweight kind of bow stand works well.
7. Be sure to shoot at some bottom and top targets while practicing, though the top targets on a ”Big Shot” target stand are not as high as tournament shooting. When you shoot and how much you shoot is all up to you—every archer is different in this respect.
8. You will shoot qualifications first, which are two rounds of 30 arrows each. Your score at the end of this determines if you make the elimination stage. In 2022 the Men’s Barebow cutoff line for eliminations was 490, which means a 245 average across the two rounds. The Women’s cutoff line was 461, which means a 230.5 average. I’d expect the cutoff scores to increase for 2023 because there will likely be more international shooters present and more archers overall. There are 3.5 months left to the tournament in 2023 as I update this and there are already more barebow women registered than last year and almost as many men. The numbers are growing because it’s a great tournament and a really fun time.
9. The elimination stage starts on Saturday, for all archers, at 8 AM. Get there well before this time to get some practice in. I got there at 6:30 AM and had plenty of time to get ready.
10. Finals start on Saturday at 1 PM, end Saturday night, and then continue on Sunday. Each division shoots at a different time. If you make it to the finals I think it’s a good idea to watch another division before you shoot (assuming you are not in the first finals round at 1 PM) so that you get a feel for what you’ll be shooting in. It’s quite an event, so getting used to it beforehand may help quite a bit. Here is the “Shoot Up Finals” schedule that occurred in 2022:

Saturday:

1. 1:00 to 1:35: Senior Open
2. 1:40 to 2:15: Women’s Open
3. 2:20 to 2:55: Master’s Open
4. 3:00 to 3:35: Women’s Master’s Open
5. 3:40 to 4:15: Youth Male Recurve
6. 4:20 to 4:55: Youth Female Recurve
7. 5:00 to 5:35: Youth Female Open
8. 5:40 to 6:15: Women’s Barebow
9. 6:20 to 7:50: Men’s Barebow
10. 8:15: Awards Ceremony

Sunday:

1. 8:00 AM to 8:35 AM: Master’s Open Pro
2. 8:40 to 9:15: Bowhunter
3. 9:20 to 9:55: Women’s Recurve
4. 10:00 to 10:35: Olympic Recurve
5. 10:40 to 11:15: Youth Male Open
6. 11:20 to 12:50: Men’s Open
7. 12:55 to 1:30: Women’s Open Pro
8. 1:35 to 3:05: Open Pro
9. 3:20: Awards Ceremony

11. If you don’t make the finals, go watch some of them for the experience. It’s really something to see and, if you make the finals in a following year, you’ll have that much more experience to understand what you’ll be dealing with.
12. For those that are unsure of the above divisions, when you see the word Open it means compound archery. There is Open and Open Pro. They are both the same style of archery, but ”Open Pro” costs more to enter, has higher prize money, and therefore is harder to win. Bowhunter is compound as well, but with more restrictions in regards to equipment (shorter stabilizers, non-magnified sights, etc.). Recurve means Olympic Recurve, the kind of archery they shoot in the Olympics. Barebow means shooting a recurve bow without stabilizers, sights, and a clicker. You can also shoot a traditional bow in the barebow division. Youth means between 11 and 17, inclusive. Masters means age 50 and up. Senior means 60 and up. You can be 60 and up, for instance, but still compete in a non-senior division—it’s up to you.

Qualifications

1. You are given a lane assignment when you arrive and check in, and via the Rcherz website and/or app. When you check in they will give you a swag bag as well as a card that attaches to your quiver. This card has your lane assignment on it, and it also serves as your pass to get into the practice ranges (provided you paid for practice range time). You can see your lane assignment using Rcherz ahead of time, prior to checking in. At the time of writing this, the Rcherz app works better than their website, so I advise you download the app to your phone rather than dealing with the website.
2. You pick up your scorecard and your name tag (which you mount beside your target face) at a table near the shooting lines, close to your shooting time.
3. There are two shooting lines in the gigantic range area. One line shoots right to left in the area and one line shoots left to right. The lines have a relatively large space between them where people can walk around and where there may be some media doing filming, interviews, etc. There is plenty of seating as well. Here is a picture of one line, and you can imagine another line to the right of this picture shooting in the opposite direction:

4. Target faces are laid in various spots on the floor between the shooting line and the target bales. You pick up a target face and put it on the bale like you would in a normal tournament. These locations are also generally where the timers are, which you can see in the above picture in between the line and the targets.
5. You shoot your qualification round of 60 arrows (two rounds of 30 arrows each). You shoot your first 30 arrows at either the top or bottom target, and then switch to the opposite for the second 30 (bottom becomes top, and vice-versa). Bottom always shoots first, which I enjoy because it’s simpler and easier to maintain the same behavior in between ends. When you switch the location of your target face, you get a new face and you also move your name tag beside it.
6. Scoring occurs on paper as well as a tablet supplied by the tournament. The tablets were slow to show up for the Friday 4 PM line and were missing during warmups, but eventually appeared before we started scoring.
7. Moving the target face from top to bottom or bottom to top also changes which target you score in which order. Location A is the top left target on the bale, B is the top right, C is the bottom left, and D the bottom right. For the first round you will call targets in the order of locations A, B, C, and D. For the second round you will call targets in the order of locations C, D, A, and B. Doing this maintains the same order on the scorecards that are on your clipboard as well as the same order in the Rcherz software on the supplied target. I suppose you don’t have to do it this way but otherwise the scorers will have to adjust—and it’s easier for the caller to adjust the order of the called target faces than it is for the scorers to adjust the order of archers.
8. Do yourself a favor and place the scorecards and tablet well in front of the target so that you can easily pick them up when scoring. People tend to want to place them under the target, tucked away, but this makes them hard to retrieve because you then have to bend underneath arrows sticking out of the target.
9. You DO NOT need to mark arrows on the target because witnessed bounce outs or witnessed physical interference by another archer will be shot again.
10. Arrow scores are called lowest to highest instead of the other way around. This took a bit of getting used to and we laughed at how many times we messed it up, but eventually we worked out the kinks.
11. After both rounds your total score is calculated. You have to ensure the paper scores and tablet scores match, and the usual signing of paper scorecards. After this you have to head with the other shooters on your target to one of the tables where they accept your scorecards and tablet. They will review each scorecard for any modifications (i.e., cross outs and corrections) and ask each person on the target to okay each change to the scorecard with their initials. I scored for my target and I made a few mistakes, so don’t worry if you do.
12. If your score is in the top ’X’ amount for your division, you then move on to head-to-head eliminations. I wrote ’X’ above because how many people qualify for the eliminations depends upon how many sign up in your division. For example, in 2022 there were about 182 male barebow archers, from which the top 64 made it into the the elimination round. For female barebow archers, 16 made it to the elimination round from a total of 58 archers in qualifications.

Eliminations

1. Elimination round shooting begins at 8 AM on Saturday. If you make it to eliminations you will receive an email overnight between Friday and Saturday telling you your lane assignment.
2. If you make it to eliminations, you’ll probably want to get to Spooky Nook relatively early. I got there at 6:30 AM and felt like I had plenty of time to get some practice time in before eliminations began.
3. You will be paired against an archer depending upon how you finished in the qualification round. For example, the person with the highest qualification score will go head-to-head with the person that made the elimination round with the lowest score (e.g., 1 versus 64 in the male barebow division). Then it is the next high/low pairing (e.g., 2 versus 63 in the male barebow division).
4. Eventually only a small number of archers are left, and these archers shoot ”on stage” in the finals area.

Finals

1. The ”Shoot Up Finals” occur if you make it through your division of Eliminations.
2. These matches are broadcast live on YouTube and live on forever (or at least as long as YouTube exists).
3. For the male barebow division there were eight archers that made it to the finals, and for female barebow there were 4. Again, it all depends upon the number of registrations.
4. The finals is head to head, each match in seeded order based upon total score up to the finals (that is, qualification scores plus elimination scores). You could, for instance, finish in third place in qualifications but then shoot well enough in eliminations to be the number 1 seed heading into the finals.
5. If you make it to the Shoot Ups, you’ll get some money. How much money you get is dependent upon how many registered in your division. First place in the male barebow division in 2022 was $8,000.
6. I cover more of the finals in the ”Our Schedule and Experience” section below.

Lodging

When you sign up, you’ll eventually be taken to a page that lists hotels associated with the tournament. This of course doesn’t mean you’re only limited to these hotels. One hotel that is listed is ”The Warehouse” and it is a hotel inside of Spooky Nook Sports Complex, the location of the tournament. Depending upon what you are after this may be ideal for you but it tends to fill up fast. Some people (me being one of them) like to get a little separation from the tournament venue.

We stayed at another associated hotel, Comfort Suites at Manheim. We enjoyed our stay very much, as the rooms were fairly large and quiet with a small refrigerator and microwave. The hotel is only a minute or two away from Spooky Nook—you can see Spooky Nook from this hotel. Being so close makes traveling to the tournament on a moment’s notice, perhaps to shoot or to watch the finals, a quick endeavor.

It’s also possible that using the registration process to book the hotel doesn’t get you a hotel you want, so don’t hesitate to go directly to any hotel’s website you are interested in. Even if the registration says a hotel is booked, I’d try the direct route just to make sure.

Of course there is also the Airbnb route as well. If we go next year with a group of people (we are definitely going, but not sure with how many) we may choose this route because it could be nice to have a central place to perhaps have a dinner or simply a place to hang out. But, then again, there really isn’t time for much other than having a bite to eat and being at Spooky Nook, as the ”Our Schedule and Experience” section shows, below.

Food

While there isn’t much in the area directly around Spooky Nook in regards to restaurants, there is about 10 minutes East on Route 283—there are restaurants, a Wegman’s, and a Whole Foods amongst others.

We didn’t take a long time to figure out restaurants for us, but there are plenty. What we did instead was to bring some of our own food (fruit and soups, mostly) and go to Wegman’s to pick up a few prepared foods to our liking. Because the Comfort Suites hotel has a refrigerator and microwave in each room, it was easy to keep things cold and then warm up whenever we wanted. This was especially useful later at night, avoiding going out and spending a lot of time driving and being in a restaurant. Instead, we could simply cook something up quickly and get our fill—which left more time to do things archery related such as practicing on a moment’s notice or watching the tournament. Honestly, there just isn’t a lot of time to fit other things in.

Though we brought a cooler with the soups and fruit inside, we won’t do this again. We’d now put these things in leakproof containers so as to avoid bringing a cooler, and then simply use the refrigerator once there to keep things cold and fresh. We also wouldn’t bring the two or three gallons of water we brought, buying them instead when we arrive. By eliminating the cooler and water, we’d have saved a decent amount of space in our car.

Spooky Nook

Spooky Nook is where The Lancaster Archery Classic is held and is quite an incredible place, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. It is really gigantic, as it’s almost 800,000 square feet. I took the following photo of the left half to give a vibe of how big it is from the outside:

Here is another one from above. When you are there, the parking lot is huge—look how it’s dwarfed by the building!

On Friday when we shot at 4 PM and arrived somewhere around 12:30 to 1 PM, we had to park in the furthest away parking lot at the bottom of the above picture, and on Saturday we had to park in the parking lot all the way in back of the building, past the ”bubble” you see at the top of the picture. The Comfort Suites Manheim hotel is just out of view of the above picture, off to the right as you follow the road at the bottom of the picture past the bubble.

When you walk in the front door it’s a massive, open area complete with a large, round information area directly in front, a huge rock climbing area to the left, and a food court straight ahead. The building contains 10 volleyball courts, 10 basketball courts, 4 field hockey fields, 6 soccer fields, a 200 meter indoor track, a full size baseball field, a huge area for fitness such as lifting weights, a huge rock climbing gym, many meeting and party spaces, an arcade, and a food court. While there it seemed like it was packed all the time, with many volleyball, soccer, lacrosse, and basketball games going on at the same time. Many people were using the fitness center and rock climbing area, and of course there was a subset of about 1,500 archers walking around with their guests. Here is a picture of a small portion of Spooky Nook, the volleyball courts (and I promise this is just a small portion):

When you walk in the front door, the archery ranges are a decent walk to the immediate left. On the way to the ranges you will find the registration area where you let Lancaster Archery Supply know you are there and then pick up your swag bag and tournament card that attaches to your quiver.

The Spooky Nook Map for the Lancaster Archery Classic

Our Lancaster Archery Classic Schedule and Experience

Thursday:

1. Left home at 9 AM and arrived at the hotel at 3 PM. This included a stop for gas. Definitely use Waze on the way down if you tend to speed and you want a head’s up on speed traps.
2. Unpacked at the hotel.
3. Went to Wegman’s to pick up some prepared food.
4. Came back to hotel and ate a bit. Organized the room a bit as well, especially the food we had just bought.
5. Took our archery gear to Spooky Nook at around 5:15 PM.
6. Checked-in to the LAC and got our tournament cards (to put on our quivers) and swag bag. It was a well run, quick process.
7. Spent some time getting used to the layout of Spooky Nook. They do a great job with signage, pointing you to wherever you may need to go. We really didn’t have a clue, though, so walked around quite a bit.
8. Found a practice range and shot for about 90 minutes. If you’re with a group of people you may have to split up a bit to practice by grabbing any empty slot on various targets that you can. Grab a slot somewhere, grab a target face (or shoot on one that is already on a target bale but currently unused), and start shooting. The practice lines are 2 minute shoots and timed, and if they get busy enough they are a double line of 2 minutes each.
9. As we got ready to start shooting, John Demmer and Matt Zirnsak started shooting in the lanes right beside us. Demmer was on fire during practice I think even by his standards. It suddenly felt like I was in the big leagues because I’ve never seen anyone shoot even close to how he was shooting in practice. We asked for a picture with John and Matt, and while we asked we were fortunate enough for Bobby Worthington to show up:

10. Got back to hotel at about 8:15 PM. Hung out for a little while and went to bed. We use white noise machines to help drown out any background noise and they work well for us.

Friday:

1. Slept well and took time getting up.
2. Visited Lancaster Archery Supply, about 15 minutes from hotel. Great place and the staff really knows their stuff.
3. Went back to Wegman’s, not far from Lancaster Archery Supply, because Emma really liked the potato dish she got the day before and the manicotti, and we wanted her eating food and not junk.
4. Went to Spooky Nook to watch some of the archery and to get some practice shooting in. I think by the time we got there it was about 12:30 or so. One thing to note in regards to practice time is that you have to somewhat schedule it intelligently. For instance, the practice ranges will start filling up 2 hours or so before a tournament start time. We never had an issue finding space, but we showed up to practice around 2:00 PM for a 4 PM line. If we showed up at 3 I still think we’d have gotten a slot, but it’s something to be aware of and to be cautious about.
5. Shot at 4 PM and finished about 8:15 PM.
6. Packed up our stuff and left it at Spooky Nook and returned to our hotel. Ate a little bit and stayed up too late due to being excited about shooting well (8th place after qualifications) and thinking about the elimination round.

Saturday:

1. Woke up around 4:00 AM and couldn’t get back to sleep. Laid in bed and tried to get back to sleep but mind was running a little bit fast.
2. Left Wendy and Emma in bed and made it to Spooky Nook by 6:30. We rented two adjoining rooms just for this purpose—so that someone could get up early and not wake others up.
3. Shot for a while in the practice range and was shooting really well. Felt ready.
4. Eliminations started a little bit after 8 AM. I went up against Ryan Collins and got out to a good start before he started catching me a bit. Thankfully won the match.
5. The second match I went against Aaron Shea and I had to move from the bottom target to the top. It threw me for a little bit of a loop and I struggled to a 20 in my first end (6, 7, 7). Arghhh. I was disappointed in myself. Aaron shot really well, closing it out with a 107 to my 98. I’ll learn from what happened for sure. What you end up realizing is there aren’t any points to give away the entire tournament.
6. Hung around and watched a number of eliminations. Was fun as the numbers dwindled down.
7. Got to have a long conversation with Spanky Brooks and his wife, Debra. Wendy and Debra hit it off, it seemed, Emma loved them both, and Spanky showed us pictures of some of his work making knives using various materials (really nice work). Here is a picture:

8. We went back to the hotel and I felt incoherent I was so tired. I took about an hour nap.
9. When I awoke we went back to Spooky Nook to watch some of the finals. We definitely wanted to see Dewey Hathaway compete, a young compound archer we often shoot with up in Massachusetts, and Whitney Williams, a great young recurve shooter from Vermont. Both lost in their first finals match but shot very well—in head to head matches it’s often a crapshoot, especially when facing off against archers good enough to make the finals. Both of them went on to win their Vegas Shoot divisions the following week. 🙂
10. The finals were great to watch. What a production, with the archers up on a stage, lights pouring down on them from above while everyone else in the large room sits in darkness, and announcers asking them questions while the entire event is broadcast live on YouTube. Take a look:

11. If you make it to the finals, you are allowed to practice in a room that tries to simulate the lighting of the finals area. Of course it’s not the same, but they do the best they can do to give you a place to shoot. You’ll get to hang out with the other archers in the finals of your division and shoot. Here is a picture of what it looks like:

12. The Woman’s Barebow competition really started heating things up. It was running about 20 minutes late if I remember correctly, starting at 6:00ish when it was supposed to start at 5:40. The room started getting more crowded for this, and once Fawn Girard came out, the number 1 seed, the energy really rose. She does a pretty good amount of hootin’ and hollerin’, and the crowd loved it. She does this, I think, out of nervous energy, and it comes across really well. She was competing against a young woman by the name of Erin Heyob that she has been shooting with for a few years. Erin had wonderful things to say about Fawn, and Fawn had wonderful things to say about Erin. The match was really close but Erin pulled it out, amazingly, and Fawn took her in her arms and gave her a giant hug. Honestly, it brought a few tears to my eye watching it because it was as if daughter beat mother.
13. A little bit after the match, but before the final match of the day (Men’s Barebow) started, Fawn passed by us and we asked Fawn if she minded taking a picture with Emma. Fawn enthusiastically agreed and immediately hugged Emma:

13. Next up was Men’s Barebow. By this point the room was totally packed with standing room only. The crowd was boisterous, as the barebow crowd is always full of energy and Rob Kaulfold, founder of Lancaster Archery Supply, encourages it.
14. Lee Wilkins and Jared Mullis were the first match, which Lee won. Lee then moved through Paul Donahoo, Leo Pettersson, Ryan Davis, and Ed Krystofosky before succumbing to Dewayne Martin.
15. Once Dewayne Martin beat Lee, there were only two archers left: Dewayne and John Demmer, seeded 2 and 1, respectively.
16. It was something to see as Demmer walked into the finals area with the crowd whooping it up really loud. John Wert gave him a great introduction and before you know it the match had begun.
17. It was a great match, as Demmer pulled it out in the last end. Both archers shot great, so it was well earned instead of accidentally lost. Demmer shot a 113 and Martin a 111, which I think combined may be the highest scores ever shot in the Barebow final match of the Lancaster Archery Classic.
18. We hung around for a short bit but then sadly realized it was all over and that the next step, the next morning, was heading home.

Sunday:

1. We woke up, packed up our rooms, and headed out for breakfast at a nearby diner (sorry, I forget which one). We stopped by Lancaster Archery Supply for a quick stop and then were on our way home. 🙁