Tri-Ute: Archery

Southern Ute archers – bows held high, and coaches and chaperones pose atop a hill before shooting the next target.

Elijah Weaver and Jack Frost III switch bows in a friendly dual shoot-out on one of the targets.

Bigfoot has been spotted and shot with a few arrows! As a few of the archers from the Ute and Southern Ute Tribes stand in front of their trophy.

Lorraine Watts aims for the "Bigfoot" 3D target as her brother Ouray looks on.

Elliott Hendren proudly stands aside the "bigfoot" 3D target, of which he hit with an arrow from 50 yards away. Gabe Pinnecoose was the other archer to hit the Bigfoot.

Many bows were drawn and arrows shot during the fun-shoot competion to end th archery portion of the Tri-Ute Games.

Kristopher White draws his bow and lets an arrow fly, he previously hit a clay-pigeon dead-center without breaking it (seen in the background).

Jack Frost III (left) and Elijah Weaver, pose with the turkey they shot in a shoot-out to decide the days winner among the Team Southern Ute archers – Elijah won.

Tri-Ute coaches for Team Southern Ute archers, Jack Frost Jr. (left), Rhiannon Velasquez, and Jack Frost III pose at the final 3D target of the outdoor archery course.

Boys will be boys, as Team Southern Ute Archers all draw and release at the same time.

Gabe Pinnecoose successfully draws and hits the target from the blind.

Hunter Frost eyes his target, prior to drawing his recurve.

Gabe Pinnecoose takes aim at the life-size 3-D deer target during the final day of shooting.

Elijah Weaver draws his line of sight to his 3D target. The Tri-Ute archery held a two-day shoot. The first day teams scored in groups and the second day was a fun-shoot.

Brothers Willie Fuller and James King shoot in tandem.

David Boyd sights his target from atop the hill to his target down below.

Cesar Corona, get situated from within the blind, one of the more difficult shots on the course during competition.

Selena Cook, first-time archer, draws and aims for her selected target.

Kris White takes aim to the target of one of the longest shots on the course during day-one of competition.

Robert L. Ortiz | The Southern Ute Drum

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Fri Jun 26th, 2015 , by Robert L. Ortiz | The Southern Ute Drum

The Tri-Ute Games Archery shoot was held for two days on an outdoor course winding through wetlands, over creeks, and onto a small mesa o f dry dirt and sagebrush. The first day was a more competitive shoot with teams from Northern, Southern and Ute mountain ute tribes intermixed in the target shoot. The second day a fun-shoot, as team Southern Ute shot together. Scoring was kept during the two-days and final scores tabulated at the end of the shoot. There was also a skeet-shoot pitting teams, drawn at random, competing to hit their targets in the shortest amount of time. Teams also competed in a dollar shoot, which had archers shooting dollar bills, each bill they shot, they kept – the two-days shoot was all in fun, nothing better than being outdoors, sharing laughs and letting arrows fly.

Tri-Ute: Archery

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