From something that was a thought on the drawing board back in October to having fun with 60 others with in 5 weeks, that is what we did. We took the ball and ran with it. While some club members were cautious the proverb "lead by example came into play".

Pete borrowed the tractor & slasher from our neighbouring motor cross club and ploughed through the area of our grounds we had set aside for this new field course. With all the rain we had during winter the bracken was 4-5 ft high. The gum trees, very lush with new growth and many of the Target butts we had placed out there had been devoured by this vegetation. Within hours Peter had created a new course.

Over the next few weekends working bees included new directional signs, new shooting pegs spray painted. Target faces glued, whipper snipping, mowing, cleaning, chain sawing, general repairs & maintenance around the club. The final task was driving up to Diamond Valley Archers in Yarrambat about 2 or so hours north of our club to collect the 3D Animal Targets. DVA generously allowed us to use their 3Dtargets for our 1st shoot.

This shoot was a combination of 2 x 10 3D animal targets on the newly completed orange course and 2 x 10 3DAAA paper Targets on the revamped red course which is home to our awesome tree stand. Flyers were sent via email & snail mail to all archery clubs here in Victoria both AV/AA & ABA. The feedback was fantastic lots of phone calls. We knew other clubs were watching what we were doing.

The days drew closer to our shoot and Terry informed us that Al & Rob were heading down to assist us. WOW this is amazing this support blew us away. Their guidance would be valuable especially with the definitions of divisions. Archery Forum on the internet was on fire and the enthusiasm was infectious.

The atmosphere was buzzing and canteen was starting to rock The 2 courses were set & given the okay & stamp of approval by Al & Rob .We were ready to go. On the Saturday quite a few clubs arrived to camp over on our club camping grounds and to have a shoot on the Blue field course. Many of the archers came from AV/AA clubs and shooting an unmarked distance round was a new game for them. We had 30 for our BBQ dinner & camp over. This was so good The weather was wonderful and the comment WOW you have hot showers, brought smiles to our faces.

Sunday came, cars rolled in and 50 archers ready to get out there and experience the 3DAAA game. This was a brilliant turn up considering there were 2 other non-calendar archery events that were happening on this weekend as well. Pete welcomed everyone an Al & Rob explained how 3DAAA worked the only difference in this format was we had a muster and starting time so we could explain how to score and clarify divisions and the rules of the game. Rob was going to wander around the course to answer any questions archers may have. Al joined in Pete's group and off they all headed onto the New Orange 3DAAA field course. With a horn blow the game started and many arrows were shoot towards rubber for the 1st round. From there on end a great time was had by all.

After a couple of hours in wandered some archers hungry for lunch and ready to hit the Red course to have a go at the 3DAAA paper round, another new game.
The 3DAAA paper round was also received with huge enthusiasm and everyone came back with smiles on their faces saying wow that was great!

Quite a few 3DAAA membership forms were taken and the interest was enormous.
At least 4 of the clubs who attended were interested in this new game and how to join. The club was buzzing as archers chattered amongst themselves and laughter echoed.

All the hard work was certainly worth it and thanks you to all our MPB Inc members who jumped in and gave the club their support, energy & time to make this shoot a success. Thanks to DVA for their ongoing support and again a big Thanks to Terry, Al, Rob & Jane for your guidance, advice & support.

It was a great weekend and from all reports everyone had a ball and eager to do it again. Hopefully we shall have the Victorian southern series up and running hence in the near future when more Victorian clubs join in this fun game. We shall be doing it all again in April 2004 over the Easter weekend so we hope to meet more 3DAAA players.

The Club House	DVA's Cameron & Feeding Deer
Rob , with 3 DVA members & their beloved Turkey	Paper Turkey Target
MPB members- Ryan, Antonio, Luke & Daniel	More Turkey for Dinner .Xmas coming?