Southern Traditional Archery Association will be hosting our annual Catch A Dream benefit shoot June 22-23 in the Persimmon Hill campground on Enid Lake in north Mississippi. 25 target multi round course and a 10 target Cry Baby range. There will be an auction Saturday night along with dinner. This is always a really fun shoot and a great place to come camp for the weekend. It also helps out a fantastic organization. For more information, feel free to reach out to me. Kevin Brown at [email protected].

Guys this is a great shoot, and the money that Southern Traditional Archery raises, is for a wonderful cause. If you want to have a good time shooting your Longbow,Recurve or Selfbow then you should come to the STA Enid Lake shoot. They always have hamburgers and hotdogs for sale and plenty of drinks.

Please spread the word. Southern Traditional Archery Association Catch-A-Dream benefit shoot at Enid Lake Mississippi June 22-23.

I have camping site 14 reserved.

What is a "cry baby" range?

I hope to attend this year.

On the cry baby range you shoot at 10 or more small animal targets at less than 15 yards, they are positioned behind and through so much brush that you think hitting one is impossible but everyone is doable it you are a contortionist and creative on making your shots.

Eric, sounds like fun! Steep uphill and downhill too?

Flying turkey and running hog also. Really fun.

The course winds through mostly open, fairly hilly, hardwoods. It’s a fun, but challenging course that includes 2 moving targets. The campground on Enid Lake is a Corp of engineers campground and has excellent facilities. It’s a great place to spend the weekend.

The course winds through mostly open, fairly hilly, hardwoods. It’s a fun, but challenging course that includes 2 moving targets. The campground on Enid Lake is a Corp of engineers campground and has excellent facilities. It’s a great place to spend the weekend.

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They also have plenty of warm up bags to shoot at, before hitting the range.

Persimmon Hill is the best campground I have ever camped in. I just checked and there are a few campsites still available but a lot are already reserved.

This a Corp of Engineers campground with full hookups. Lots of room and concrete pads for every campsite.

If you have a Parks and Recreation senior pass you can camp for half price or $9 a night

https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233634

If you rent a pad and only want to pitch a tent or two you can have up to 12 people tent camping on each site. There is plenty of room plus a grill, fire ring and a picnic table on each site.

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Will be a blast for sure. Hope the weather cooperates

Kevin, do you have the prices for the shoot? Thanks.

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Matt, I believe it’ll be $25 to shoot all weekend. This is a multi round shoot so shoot as many times as you want with the best score counting. The Cry Baby is a separate event and is $10/round. We will have dinner avaiSaturday night and an auction after that.

Eric Krewson,,,, before I visited this thread I had reserved a site at Persimon Hill. Happens to be number 14,,, this will be our first time to visit this shoot and are not familiar with the camp grounds. We are at site 14, Persimmon Hill(Enid Lake) Just wanted you/or me,,,, to know if we need to make changes????

If someone sees I’m in the wrong area please let me know.

You are good! I think 14 is near the bathrooms. There really are no bad spots. We are on 21

Thank you Julia,, There is another couple coming along as well,, we’ll arrive Friday and be leaving Monday,, I think they have site thirteen,, See you there,,

Stkbow, as Julia said, there aren’t really any bad spots. The campground and facilities are top notch. You’ll enjoy both the campground and the shoot. Kevin.

Thanks Kevin,, we’re looking forward to it,,

I’m just hoping Eric will take note and secure a site,,, we had decided to extend our stay and I talked with res.gov again yesterday... 14 is takin..

It’s been several years since we have visited this area and anxious to see some old friends,, and make some new ones

Please pass the word around.

Ttt

I had 15 all along just got my number mixed up.

well Eric, I wish I was going and camping at 16...my friends, Robert and Debbie, will be on the other side of you. It sounds like an event I have to try to attend sometime.

I looked at the website for Southern Traditional Archery Association but found no rules listed. Can anyone tell us the classes for this event or any type of restrictions for the equipment used?

John, maybe Kevin will respond shortly. I know they have Longbow, Recurve and selfbow class in Men, Women and youth. Recurve and longbow any arrow material can be used. Selfbow use to be wood only, not sure about now.

It was also no elevated rest or release devices of any type.

John, we have classes for men, women for recurve, longbow and selfbow. We also have classes for youth and seniors. Typically, for those two classes, we don’t break them down in recurve/longbow since we don’t usually have enough people in them to justify it.. As far as equipment goes, no sights, but that’s about it. This shoot is about raising money for Catch A Dream. Unless you show up with a compound, we can accommodate you. Actually, we will even let the youth shoot their NASP bows if they want.

Great news, I will try to be there.

The bridge by the hatchery and north end of the dam is out. If you're coming from I55 it's about a 10 minute detour taking the next exit to the north.

Last time I tried to follow the detour at the hatchery I ended up 5 miles out in the middle of nowhere on a two lane road with a 32' fifth wheel in tow in the pouring rain. Fortunately while I was stopped at the entrance of another campground across the lake from Persimmon hill two guys came along, noticed my predicament and offered to guide me back to Persimmon Hill, it was a long winding road with multiple turns to get back.

The next time I went to the shoot I took the first exit to Enid Lake like I did before but turned right at the access road instead of going back across the interstate, I went a short distance and turned left on the two lane. It was a couple of miles SE to the first left and the road that took you right to the entrance of Persimmon Hill campground. The road is marked as going to Enid Lake, it might be 1/2 mile from the two lane to the entrance to the campground. Where you turn there is a church on one corner and an old gas station turned thrift shop on the other.

You can take exit 227 and go west to the 4-way stop at hwy 51. Go north on 51 for a few miles then turn right at the sign that say Enid dam. This will take you over I-55 and straight into the park. Really easy.

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The weather is looking good for the weekend. A little warm but it’s June in Mississippi! Y’all come join us.

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Beautiful morning here on Enid Lake!

Wanted to say thanks to everyone who attended. The course was fun but challenging and the weather, while hot, was sunny and dry. I will post scores on the Southern Traditional Archery Association Facebook page.

Thanks Kevin, me and mine had fun. First archery event for my nephew.

As an added bonus the course had a good crop of chanetrells, I know of three of us that went foraging. I picked a wash tub full and dried them in my camper.

This was a great shoot,, met some great people and saw some old friends,,

A sincere thanks to all that make this happen and all the hospitality..

The range is among the best we’ve visited,

Eric,, Marvin found one of your arrows that you had loaned out on Sunday,, We will figure a way to get it to you,,, really enjoyed the visit,, great meeting you..

We will be making plans to return for years to come...

who won the bow raffle??

Sorry but I don’t keep names well,, it wasn’t me,,, it was a cool deal though,,

They picked a youngster from the crowd to draw the ticket and it was his grandpas ticket,,, perfect ending to a good time,,,

Malcolm Parker won the Black Widow, again! Don’t remember who it was that won the Voodoo Stick.

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