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    New York State Bowhunter Education Class Coming Up Sept 24th & 25th 2022:      On the 24th
from Noon to 5:00pm  & On the 25th from 8:00am to 1:00pm - Sign Up On The DEC Web site or call
217-6981 my cell. This class was  canceled by the DEC because of the stupid on line class where
students don't learn pea-turkey-dog about  bowhunting. The head of the DEC appointed by the
governor is reining our sport of hunting, fishing and trapping on purpose.  If you like the way
things are, DON'T  VOTE. I promise it will get worse if you don't vote. Friday October 11th is the last
day you can register so you can vote. Wake Up New Yorker's ! You can't bitch about it if you don't
vote.  God Bless You, Our State and Our Country.                                        LIFE  IS  GOOD ! 
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    CREEKWOOD SHOOTERS GO TO SENIOR GAMES      Well June 11th, 2022 Ben Adams, Ron Coyle,
Kevin Kenyon and three more shooters I am saying belong to Creekwood, Paul & Julie Shaver, plus 
Dave Benty (My Hero) thrown in for good measure just because of our longevity together. It was really
good to see them - Been a long time.
            
We drove down on Friday and stayed all night because The Chemung County Senior Games start at
 8:30am on Saturday morning. Creekwood Archery has attended this shoot for many years. It is held
 at The Chemung County Rod & Gun Club in Breezeport, NY. It is run by Chemung County. Without
 Dennis Shehan, his brother Mike and other club members it wouldn't be what it is. A GREAT, WELL
 RUN SHOOT !
            
   Dennis is the range captain and does a super job. The shoot consists of two five arrow rounds of
 practice at 60 yards followed by four rounds of 5 arrows for score. Then there is one round of 5
 arrows of practice at 50 yards followed by four rounds of 5 arrows for score. Then there is one round
 of 5 arrows of practice at 40 yards followed by four rounds of 5 arrows for score. Competitors are
 classed by age, sex and equipment.
            
Ron & I were in the 80 to 84 year old class with release. Kevin was in the traditional finger release
 class 60 to 64. All week we were watching the weather report and as the days went by the forecast
 got better and better. It ended up a beautiful day with only a couple sprinkles. There was very little
 wind.
            
Ron took a 1st (I never can beat him - maybe someday), and I took a 2nd. Kevin took a 1st and shot
 his personal best. He called me Monday and said he had a great time and was looking forward to
 next year. Paul & Julie both took a 1st place and Dave Benty ( My Hero) medaled.
                
 The cost was $20.00 which included a shirt and a lunch with the results award ceremony. My goal
 was to see some old friends, get a T-Shirt and eat a hotdog, never thinking I could finish. The most
 arrows I had shot since 2019 was probably 35. I shot my first arrow at 60 yards the Monday before
 the shoot. My low poundage caused me to move my peep up just to get 60 yards and hit my scope
 with my fletch.
            
 We had a super time with some super people doing what they love. There were four married couples
 there which was a first in my memory. THANK YOU DENNIS SHEAHAN FOR A THE 1ST CLASS
 SHOOT YOU RAN. What you do and how you do it just make it enjoyable.                                     
 LIFE  IS  GOOD ! - ESPECIALLY IN THE MIDDLE.
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    KODAK CORPORATE EVENT     At Creekwood Archery on Tuesday April 26th, 2022 from
6:00 to 8:00pm. Our 1st big event since Covid - Boy, did it seem good. If I was younger, I would
get back to normal.          LIFE IS GOOD !    
       
We were all ready. They call themselves THE YOUNG GEEK GROUP, from Eastman Kodak Company.
       
                       The group was 15 strong with more on a waiting list for another time.                                              
                     Two of the 15 had their own bows, and the rest were basically first timers.
                                  The girl in the yellow shirt, Shannon McCarthy organized it.
     
Ron, Marcia and I were all impressed with the way they shot. If you are one of the 15 and would like
to put your pictures on my site, send them to ben@creekwoodarchery.com . I know there were some
videos taken between some very competitive co-workers. Everyone seemed to have a super time.
Everyone in the building except for Dublin (Our Labrador Retriever in charge of customer relations)
either worked for Kodak or had previously worked for Kodak. All these young people were proud to
work there, a brand so strong it will never die. For us it was like, the circle was complete. We, the
owners, were young in the mid-sixties working at Kodak.                            LIFE IS GOOD    
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CREEKWOOD ARCHERY IS YOUR ARCHERY HEADQUARTERS - Open To The Public - Bows, Arrows,
Lessons, Rentals, Spot Leagues, 3D Leagues, Youth Leagues, Youth Programs, Rental Bows, Indoor
Range, Two Outdoor Ranges, Heated & Air Conditioned, Shoot Indoors up to 30 yards, Outdoors 10 to
60 yards. Welcome to the Creekwood Archery "The FUN PLACE in ARCHERY" web site.  To know
what's happening, check our monthly calendars on the left. We hope you will visit both our shop and
our web site often. The results our customers achieve prove we work hard to make the sport of
archery fun and to serve everyone from the beginner to the most experienced target archer and
bowhunter. Our hunters and target archers are a testimonial to THE EXPERTISE at Creekwood Archery.
Let us know how we can help you on your trip to, "SHOOT EM' IN THE MIDDLE", by either stopping by
for a visit or sending us email at ben@creekwoodarchery.com  or  marcia@creekwoodarchery.com  

        Creekwood Archery is located in Upstate New York just 21 miles NNW from downtown Rochester
at 451 Lawrence Road, Brockport, NY 14420. Our phone number is (585) 392-2030. BEST TO CALL MY
CELL, (585) 217-6981. We are a full service archery shop with multiple ranges, to meet all of your archery
needs, with state champions, certified mechanics and instructors on staff, for your lessons, maintenance,
or repairs. We offer indoor and outdoor shooting plus Indoor 3D on Tuesday & Wednesday for 14 weeks
starting in January.
        Creekwood is proud to offer compound bows from  HOYT ,  ELITE ,  AND    MARTIN   bows &
crossbows. We stock traditional bows from Hoyt, & Martin. We custom make all our customers arrows. If
it's a  GOOD THING  in archery, we probably stock it. If it's a well advertised  BAD THING , we will tell you
about it. Yes we will, treat you like family. We also handle used bows for kids if you desire a previously
enjoyed bow for same.
        If you haven't shot a new bow in a few years, you don't know what a bow can be like. Even if your
not ready to buy a new bow yet, you need to know what the ultimate bow feels like. Come in and shoot
one. Hoyt is our # 1 selling bow and has been every year since we became a dealer.  COME SHOOT ONE !

 Sat Feb 22nd & Thur. the 27th Ricky Smith our Pro Shooter shot back to back 60X 300's.
He has had his new bow 9 days. Creekwood is so proud of Ricky and the fact all his work
is paying off.      

 Before you read whats below, understand, for me,  FAMILY & FRIENDS COME FIRST !  - No matter how much you love our country all you get is one vote and that one vote will not change your country, It's "We The People". My Web Site is the best place for me to vent. Not to my family and friends.

    ARE YOU STILL KIDDING ME      I couldn't believe it in this weeks,Trump's state of the union speech, when I saw the Democrats couldn't stand up and clap for a 13 year old boy who has brain cancer, THAT IS DIVISION. I don't know how any person could cast a vote for people who behave like that. I have people in my family who are Democrats and not one of them would perform like that. I love this country as they do, but my FAMILY comes first. I voted for Trump with my one vote which was probably canceled by someone in my own family, but that's the American way. I agree with my wife, that one of Trump's jobs is to bring our country together, and not verbally get in the Democrats face and cause division. Don't get me wrong, with all the things they did to him and his family, I don't blame him, but he won BIG TIME and now is the time to fix our nation which is so ill from brain washing with lies, plus the government shutting the country down using Covid as the excuse. If you had the choice of getting Covid or the Flu, which would you pick ? I have had both and that's a no brainier in my opinion. The government didn't shut down the country for the Flu. That's enough of the past. Let's do everything we can to be positive and throw away the rear view mirrors. First, become united in what is good for our country with common sense in mind, and do what ever we can to help the situation at hand with all the people we interface with. A country is not a country without borders. There has to be consequences for breaking our laws. Laws that protect criminals do not provide safety to our citizens and children so they can have the American lives they deserve. Government waste is every persons tax money going to stupid things or just doing things just because, we have always done it that way. The swamp needs to be drained, but not past the point where it can't function for the basic purposes it was intended. All governments work for us. Town, City, County, State and Federal governments are supposed to function as, "We The People" see fit. THE FLEA DOES NOT WAG THE DOG ! I guess I have vented enough. I listened to President Regan on the Johnny Carson show this morning and you ought to check it out. He said a lot and that wasn't yesterday.                    LIFE IS GOOD !

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME      Things for this 82 year old man are THE WORST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN, election wise.  (Election day, Nov 8th 2022) . I can't believe how brain dead the voting public was this week. All I can think of is N.Y.S. and this country hasn't hit bottom yet. People didn't vote FOR SOMETHING, they voted AGAINST SOMETHING. It seems that the majority of "We The People" have been brainwashed to the point where the way everything is, doesn't matter. Without change and compromise there will be NO CHANGE. Independent thinking is almost extinct.
1.) Nobody wants to work. The work ethic is extinct.      2.) Let 90% the criminals out of prison.      3.) Taking guns off the street is really a good thing, (NOT) when three days later that criminal is back on the street with a different gun in his hand.      4.) It's not the judges and DAs that are the problem, it's the laws from Albany that they have to abide by.      5.) The cost of everything you need and buy is out of sight and is going to be really bad this winter.      6.) The open southern border with millions of illegal people entering our country is a major problem.      7.) I have five grandchildren, and they will be paying for all the stupid money the government is spending both foreign and domestic.      8.) All across our country the Democratic governments are in control, witch is good for them. We are back in time where we are under one government rule. That's why there is a United States Of America. No King here.     9) Covid didn't cause all our problems, they were all caused by the governments wanting to control and NOT COVID. I believe it is being done on purpose.    10) Many small business are gone. (And they tell us small business is the backbone of our country) Small business is hurting big time.    11) Are schools are a joke in Western NY. There are 686 Districts in NYS and Rochester is is in last place. No schools in Western NY made the top 100. Honeoye was the top one in Western NY. My friend Holly Sidebottom has a lot to do with that district. If you can get a copy of "Imprimis" Volume 51, Number 11 "Education As A Battleground",  you will totally understand what is being done to your children, my grandchildren, and all the young people in our country. The Bluer the state, the worse it is.    12) Our Churches are hurting, closed down for a while and now with numbers down the majority of the congregation are older people.    13) Our entire health care system is swirling in the commode. Staff went from our savior angles to being fired and now they pretend everything is A-OK.    14) Our 2nd Admement and Constitution are under attack. The "WE THE PEOPLE" are lousing your freedoms. The government works for us, NOT DICTATES to us. If you have read all my venting I hope I have generated something for you to think about. AGAIN THANK YOU FOR READING THIS AND GETTING OUT TO VOTE IF YOU DID VOTE. LIFE  IS  GOOD ! CHANGE WILL COME SOME DAY - THINGS ALWAYS GO IN CYCLES - PLEASE KEEP THE FAITH IF YOU THINK THE WAY I DO. CHIN UP AND CARY ON. GET BACK TO THE GOOD LIFE WITH YOUR FAMILY AND ENJOY WHAT FEW FREEDOMS WE HAVE LEFT.

    THANK YOU      Things for this 80 year old man (now 82) are better today  (The day after election day, Nov 2021) . I would like to thank everyone for voting. The results of yesterdays election have given me hope for the future. It seems that "We The People" are realizing and sitting up in the buggy, to the fact that the issues in our country are all caused by the government and NOT COVID. AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR CARING AND GETTING OUT TO VOTE. LIFE  IS  GOOD ! PLEASE KEEP IT UP, TO GET OVER THIS CRAP WE ARE EXPERIENCING, AND GET BACK TO THE GOOD LIFE AND OUR FREEDOMS.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Fall Moose 2004 - THE THREE GOOSE MOOSE

                This was not my first moose hunt but it was my first hunt in the Thunder Bay area of Ontario, Canada. In the spot we were hunting there would be three of us hunting; Glenn Wolff from Co-Operative Feed Dealers who I had talked with on the phone but first met on the trip, Pete Crawford, a good friend and our acting guide, who Glenn and I had both hunted with before, and myself, Ben Adams who owns Creekwood Archery in Brockport, NY along with my wife Marcia. There were maybe 14 of us hunting this first week of the archery season in various camps in the Thunder Bay area.
                It was a 20 minute fly in trip to camp which was a old log cabin built in 1920 on a peninsula connected to the mainland by a huge swamp with no passable roads thru it unless the peninsula is being timbered. I was helped off the plane by a young lady named Natalie which turned out to be one of the owners wives. The first three days we were finding sign, hearing a few moose but there were no sightings. We went and explored a small finger of the lake which went back to the previous hunting camp location, and we decided they moved the location of the camp to get out of the middle of the moose habitat. We found old dates carved in the trees of moose kills etc.
              Pete and I liked the look of the area and decided to hunt it the next day. Up early, breakfast, cut pine boughs to help cover the scent of the mower. When we got there we pulled the boat up and cut some more pine. We moved down the skinny peninsula to the left maybe twenty yards. On the boat side was the lake and the other site was a bog with three geese walking around on it. Pete made a call and we just laid down and listened for about a half hour, and heard nothing. Pete called a second time and the same scenario repeated again. At this point in time it had been a little over an hour. Pete called a third time and we got an answer in the bog to our right in the bog. Pete went over and grabbed a small tree and leaned out to see down the edge of the bog. He came to me and said, "Your going to kill a bull". I got down on one knee ready to shoot and Pete went off to the left maybe twenty five yards and of course took Harriet with him. Harriet is my Cow Moose decoy. I could hear the bull grunting, but couldn't see him because of all the brush. When the Bull got to the down wind side of the boat, he smelled it and got hung up. At this point Pete began Cow calling and sloshing in the water with his feet. For the longest time the Bull was hung up but finally fell in love with the decoy and Pete's love making calls. I have never in my life been so obsessed with making a shot count. I could tell the Bull was coming because I could hear his steps in the water and his grunting. I finally saw him for the first time thru the brush and thought he was a Spike Bull. I came to full draw and when he entered my window, about a foot and a half wide I judged him for 25 yards, put the pin on him and the arrow was gone. At impact the Bull went maybe ten steps to the left and away from me. I had loaded another arrow but had no shot because of all the brush. Pete never stopped calling or sloshing in the water. The Bull would look toward me and then back at the decoy and just hung up for quite some time. Then all of a sudden he just turned around and started running back from where he came. I of course shot at him again only this time I was at least a foot over him and probably three feet behind him. When I made the second shot it was the first time I saw his paddles and resized he wasn't a Spike Bull. I grabbed the tree Pete did and leaned out watching him run. He went about 200 yards and was gone. Actually when he disappeared was when he fell and succumbed to my first shot. Pete and I felt the Bull knew he was in trouble and was trying to run away from it. Because of my wooden leg, I couldn't walk in the bog to go see my Bull. The peninsula we were on had water along the edge and where the three geese were walking we thought was dry land. Where the Bull died was only maybe twenty yards from the lake, but it was all blow downs and we needed a chain saw. Pete took my jacket and put it on the Bull to keep the bears and wolves off it.
              We had to go up on the highest part of the peninsula in order to get cell service. We called and said we had a moose down and what our issue was. They said, "no Problem, we will fly in the morning with chain saws and help. The next morning it was overcast and raining and because they fly visual, we knew they weren't coming. I found and old piece of tin around the cabin and cut down a pine tree about six inches in diameter. I rapped and nailed the tin to the pine in the middle with maybe twenty four inches on either side of the tin. With Pete on one side and Glenn on the other they were able to put a moose quarter on the tin with two ropes, one one each side to secure the quarter in place. It took Pete and Glenn five and a half hours to move that bull the two hundred yards. The strength and stamina these two guys exhibited was amazing. I told those two we were going to dinner and I hope before I die, I can make it happen. I had always had a dream of going out in my canoe, killing a buck and bringing it back in the canoe. Pete knew about that and made my dream come true. As a matter of fact I think that is one of Pete's hobbies, for filling peoples dreams. The only thing I did to help was to cut a whole crap load of brush so that when they went in and out of the water they weren't up to there eyeballs or how ever deep the water was. This was my fifth moose hunt, none of which were guided. The Montana decoy was the secret of the hunt, along with Pete's excellent calling. On previous moose hunts, if we had that decoy, I'm sure we would have connected with Bulls. The Bull ended up being the only record book animal I have ever taken, and hangs in my shop and greats me every time I enter. They said he weighed sixteen hundred pounds, but I think he weighed around fourteen hundred pounds. You don't have to be a good shot to kill a moose, but you do have to be a good caller. Kind of like turkey hunting. Thank you Pete and Glenn for making my dream come true. Life Is GOOD !

Some day, if I live long enough I will re-create all the years of our DEER CONTEST

                                                     WCS = Wooda, Coulda, Shoulda = Not in contest   

Click to see how the  DEER CONTEST  works.

 The Final Results of the 2014 Deer Contest    28 Deer 11/14/14    LIFE  IS  GOOD !  

THIS IS A FIRST: Brandon Ward a Young Adult was the only Young Adult to enter deer
and he won, Three 1st Places, One 2nd Place & One 3rd Place, for a total of $67.00. I got
an E-Mail from his dad Dec. 7th and Brandon has taken 7 deer so far and is going to
Ohio for there late bow season. LIFE  IS  GOOD !