City of Bloomington, MN Verbrugge View, 23 Aug 2017

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From YouTube: Verbrugge View – Archery Range

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In this week’s Verbrugge View, City Manager Jamie Verbrugge checks out the archery range that was recently updated to make it safer and more accessible.

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Nestled in a little Park along Marsh Lake at 94th in France Avenue, is a little-known amenity here. It's the Bloomington archery range and its newly improved this week on Verbruggen ooh. We're going to talk about the improvements here at the Bloomington archery range and I'm. Gonna take my hand at firing a few arrows. Why don't you come along for this week's for bougie view I'm here with Jeremy Klotz a park supervisor and our public works department? Jeremy? Was the project lead on overhauling the archery range and improving it for our residents and for archery enthusiasts?

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So Jeremy tell me a little bit about why it is that we felt we needed to redo and improve the archery range well.

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Two, the biggest concerns were 488 compliancy and also for safety of our users. With this archery range, we actually have a unique situation where we have the distances for the people who do competition, shooting, which is in meters, they are Olympic shooting and we also have the ability for people who are for gain for hunting.

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So we've set up ten yards once sites for the beginners. That was one that was recommended by the National Field archery Association, and then they progressively move their way up, and then we also have it. So we go from ten yards up to 70 yards. The Olympic shooters actually shoot at 70 meters. So the very end one is set up in meters. The.

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Physical layout here is also improved, so for ABA, which is Marin Disabilities Act, we have an improved surface for people to move through the archery range right. Yes,.

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From the parking lot to the shooting firing line right there, the concrete firing line these gravel paths are put in and those are at 88 compliance, Senate, green and also the concrete itself is at 88 once they shoot general throughout the site. Here we actually have 88 past, so they can go down and utilize the targets and able to pull out their barrels. The.

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Initial application was for about six firing stations. We went above and beyond that. How many do we have, and why did we do that right.

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Now we have 18, there is room for two more or four more sites, but we felt that, with the new changes that some of the people that we've interviewed over the time doing, research on this people were not seeing and Bloomington to shoot that actually live in Burlington.

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Because- and we felt that with the new safety precautions we put out here, we want to make sure that there's plenty of targets for the people who are leaving for newcomers and for the people who were here originally that they had played a shoot at and they didn't feel like, was crowded. So.

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It's free it's outdoors and there's hardly ever any way to correct. Yes, it sounds like fun. I think, I'll, try my hand at some archery. Why don't you come along as I get a lesson I'm here with Doug junker Doug is an archery enthusiast. He also happens to be one of our stellar city of Bloomington employees. Doug is gonna. Give me a tutorial on how to shoot here at the archery range Doug. What am I looking at so.

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What we have here is kind of a standard compound hunting bow. We will see a lot of different balls out at the Bloomington range, but today this is just a hunting bow. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna, be shooting a release instead of fingers. Okay, it'll hook onto that little knock point right there and again a bow is kind of unique. You got a front sight and your backside is this little peephole back here, so we're on a gun that would be on one long pipe.

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If you will you're gonna want to keep these steady as you can. Okay, it's all about you and how steady you can be, and then we've got a nice big round, doughnut target for you to shoot out at 20 yards nice and tight on your wrist.

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There you go so now. I want to win. Is.

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Bead and that felt.

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I didn't pull the trigger. Oh this.

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Harder than it looks, there's a lot to remember here.

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Now finger behind the trigger again, all.

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Right finger behind the trigger, don't.

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Do that again, yeah pull this okay, okay straight back straight, and that takes a lot yeah.

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I did not eat my Wheaties this morning.

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Come back the more you can fill up, I got.

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The wood at the wood I think I'm going to stop while I'm ahead and so that I can move my arms again tomorrow, Doug anything else that you want to talk about from a user's perspective. Here, no.

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This is, this is a absolutely perfect layout for Range Safety and for our tree, this is a great layout. I think you guys already talked about it's accessible. It gets everybody talking on the same plane, no matter how far away they're shooting this is. In my opinion, the most ideal archery range is to set up even out all.

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Right, so, if you haven't tried before this, is a nice experience for you or for kids in your family to come out here, enjoy the outdoors, enjoy a free activity and learn something new and have a good time while you're doing it. Thanks for watching this week's for bru, give you we'll see you next time.