Artemus Von Schutze

Seated in beautiful Branson, MO which can make a trip to the area a double feature the Bear Creek Volunteers host the Battle for Baldknobbers Ridge. It's a beautiful range with 7 covered stages and a board walk, always great food provided and a Saturday banquet at the host hotel. There is an article about last year's match (State championship) in the most recent chronicle. May 29-31st, 2026 https://www.bearcreekvolunteers.com/baldknobbers

I have tried to convince people for years, if you want young people to shoot the matches they have to be Saturday/Sunday. Young people don't have the PTO for all the Fri/Sat matches they want to shoot.

On the calendar!

Are the shared states just for 2026 or going forward?

Came here to say just that, Bear Creek will host it's annual shoot May 29-31, 2026. Battle for Baldknobber's Ridge in beautiful Branson, MO.

Slix Springs flat trigger, less about speed, more about comfort and not jamming a trigger into my finger.

Live in Joplin, MO and there used to be a club in town. I make the drive (75 min) to Bear Creek Volunteers on the North edge of Branson, MO. Its a beautiful range, 7 covered stages, board walk, and always building. Feel free to reach out for more info, but cowboy shoot is on 2nd Saturdays starts at 9:30 until we go to winter hours. https://www.facebook.com/groups/bearcreekvolunteers Let me know when he comes out, and we'll make sure he has what he needs to shoot, if he doesn't already have it.

Is it still big ol' donuts?

Congrats Lawdog!

Bear Creek Volunteers were proud to host the Missouri State Championship last weekend. It was Bear Creek's first time to host the state championship and boy was it a hoot! Friday started off with full day of sidematches; everything from WB in the morning, speed, long range, derringer and wrapping up the afternoon with a 3 stage warm up. Saturday morning started with the fog rolling off Bear Creek opposite the range and setting heavy on beautiful green property. After a warm welcome, five fun stages were topped off with fried chicken. Sunday brought along five more great stages and a weekend of weather that could not have been better. A big lunch, door prizes and awards wrapped up the weekend. A whole pile of state champions were recognized along with Willie Mescal and Jackie Diamond as the Missouri State Man and Lady Champion. Photos at https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=oa.1226491628889090&type=3 Join us next year May 29-31st 2026.

Looking forward to it, gonna miss Bucky O'Neil though. That was one of the most fun and unique to EoT.

There are probably already threads over there, I am pretty sure others and myself have answered this over there at least a couple times.

This is great stuff. I had your first issue at Land Run while shooting WB. Guess I'll have to see if that was the source of the problem.

The Missouri State CAS championship has an exciting new home for 2025, with the Bear Creek Volunteers in Branson, MO. Join us May 30-June 1 2025. We'll work to make sure it's a great match with all the extras you would expect and want. Keep an eye out for applications, coming soon.

Extra gun spots are handy for sidematch days along with the spares. If you travel with a shooting buddy on occasion, you could make use of the 4 as well.