UBP Campout & 3-D Shoot

2008

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8th Annual UBP CAMPOUT SHOOT
Mudbat Hill, Cascade Township
Lycoming County, PA
August 1, 2,& 3, 2008
$10.00 Donation per entire family for one or all three days.
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2008 UBP Campout Work Party
HELP WANTED
Saturday, July 26 & Sunday, July 27

The campout committee is looking for help the weekend before the campout.
Last year we had a good turnout and a lot of work was accomplished in a short amount of time.  Ann Waldron will be providing lunch for the workers on Saturday.  Workers are welcome to camp overnight.  Contact Ned Connelly or Wes Waldron if you can help

Wes Waldron:  Swmuldoon@aol.com
Ned Connelly: nc2orion@comcast.net


2007 Campout Wrap-up
By Ned Connelly, Committee Chairman
The 7th Annual Family Campout and 3D Shoot is now history and memories.  It’s always a hot time at the campout, and this year was no exception.  The local swimming holes got a workout this year.  The evenings cooled off nicely for sitting around the campfire and sleeping.  A thunderstorm rolled through the campground on Friday providing excitement in what seems to have become an annual event.  Another annual event is the re-pitching of Buck Appel’s screen house after the storm.

Attendance was up from last year with 59 registered campers and a total of 122 people.  Everyone commented on the number of children in attendance this year.  They seemed to be everywhere, shooting bows, looking for friends from prior campouts and making new friends.  You could track them at night by the glow sticks the Campout Committee provided.

Five new 3D targets were added this year replacing some old ones, and the running Javalina was turbo charged.  Office Manager Art Keefer ran the popular watermelon shoot again.  The winners were Brock Waldron in the long-range category, Dylon Burge in the mid-range and Karen Paisley’s grand daughter Maya in the children’s shoot.

On Saturday afternoon, under the big tent, there was a lot of activity.  Jeff Uschak helped a crowd of children make and decorate their own traditional arrow, Ed Wentzler amazed young and old alike with his flint knapping and primitive fire starting, while I, along with a host of assistants, cooked venison cheese steaks for the campers.

As usual, the Saturday night campfire dinner proved to one of the highlights of the weekend.  The quantity and quality of the food was unbelievable.  Wild game of all sorts along with homemade soups, salads and desserts left everyone full.  Amy Klinedinst’s crab chili disappeared quickly, as did the BBQ stingray brought by Brooke and Cheryl Hershiser who traveled from West Virginia to attend.  Many requests for recipes could be heard.  Anyone who didn’t get enough to eat only had themselves to blame.

 This year, at the suggestion of several campers, the raffle was moved to Saturday night after dinner instead of Sunday morning.  Everyone seemed pleased with the move, and we will do the same next year.  As usual, free raffle tickets were provided to kids 12 and under for the raffle.  The raffle had plenty of neat stuff for everyone. The 50-50 was won by Roy Painter, and hopefully he will use it to help buy a new tent.  The raffle helps pay the campout expenses, and without our many member and business donors, the raffle could not have been so successful.  Thanks to all who sold and bought tickets.  Thanks also go out to the following for their generous donations.  Apologies if we missed anyone.  Please let us know if we did.
Bowhunters Warehouse, Inc., Gander Mountain Inc., Wayne Sobetsky and family, Ned and Rosemary Connelly, Roy Painter, Muldoon, Mike Foust, Amy Klinedinst, Jen Sager and family, Tom and Betty Burge, Brock Waldron, Bill Elias, Brett Bacon, Perry Hartman, Greg Tupper, Frank Empson, Don Empson, Karen Paisley, John Niemic, Brian Fidler, Gary Johnson, and Emory Covert

In addition, we would like to thank Greg Bekelja, Amy Klinedinst and Roy Painter for their generous cash donations and the Murray - McGee Corporation for the use of their property.

Special thanks need to go to those who worked to so hard to make the campout so successful.   Muldoon and Brock Waldron spent a lot of time preparing the grounds and laying out the course even before the work party arrived.  The weekend before the campout saw the work party set up targets, cut firewood and weed whack the course.  It was hot out, but with all the help the work was done before it really got unbearably hot.

 Thanks to: Muldoon, Ed Wentzler, Bob Kern, Ned and Patrick Connelly, Wayne and John Sobetsky, Brock Waldron, Bill Lagoda, Paul Rebarchak, Tom and Dylon Burge, Chris Knarr Mike Laychur, Mark Taylor, Dan Zerbe, and Rob Andrews.

Thanks to all those who helped Muldoon, Brock and I man the registration booth so we could shoot and do some visiting.

After everyone departed on Sunday, the cleanup crew went to work bringing in the targets and straightening things up.  Their job was made a lot easier due to the fact that the campers left the grounds as clean as they found them.  Thanks to:  Buck Appel, Ned, Ned Jr., and Patrick Connelly, Brock Waldron, Muldoon, Ed Wentzler, Mark Taylor, Bill Fehon, Jared Hajas and his friends.

If we have missed anyone it was not intentional and please let us know.

A very special thanks goes to Anne Waldron for providing lunch for both work parties.

Finally, I would like to thank Wes and Brock Waldron, my fellow campout committee members, for all the time and effort they put into making this a successful event.

The committee is already looking forward to next year’s campout and dates will be in an upcoming issue of Pennsylvania Bowhunting.  We need to consult the Farmer’s Almanac to schedule the thunderstorm.

We hope to see everyone again next year as we heard many of the children promising their new friends to see them next year.  Thanks to all who attended and helped make this a great event.

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