I don't know how many people have ever been to a traditional cornstalk shoot, but I try to at least make it to one a month, usually the Creek Nation cornstalk shoot. We usually start roughly 9 in the morning and shoot until about 1 or 4 pm depending on the weather. The way it works is you use a special cornstalk tip on your arrows and stand at opposing cornstalk stack targets that are about 4 x 4 in dimension and about 3 ft deep. The opposing targets are roughly 80 to 120 yards depending on what tribe you're shooting with and how they have their targets set up. If you hit the cornstalks your score depends on how many stalks your tip pierces and stays in. You shoot until someone scores 25 points or more. I know most of you aren't in Oklahoma but anyone who is in the Okmulgee, Tahlequah, Seminole, Ada or a few other areas is welcome to come out. Usually they have the shoots on a Saturday morning, it varies by tribe, we try to spread them out so we can support each others shoots and they always have a big lunch dinner.
couple of photos of last Saturdays shoot, the Creek Tribe in Okmulgee has their shoots the 1st Saturday of the month.
These are the tips used on the cornstalk arrows
The little red arrow is pointing at the opposing cornstalk stack target; can you see it?
This is Lonnie scoring a hit.
