Traditional Bowhunters of Florida

ABOUT US

The TBOF club formation meeting was held at Tom and Rennett Brunofsky’s house in the summer of 1990 with about a dozen people attending. (I was not there) At that time Dave Keueber was elected as President and Tom Brunofsky as Vice President, with Rennett Brunofsky taking on the Secretary/Treasurer position.

The first TBOF formal shoot was held at the Gibson’s lazy B. Ranch in Reddick, Florida just north of Ocala on August 18th, 1990. Entry fees of $260.00 were collected from 26 shooters. Expenses for that shoot were $290.66, for a loss of $30.66.

Tom put out the first Stickbow News in November 1990. There was $216.03 in the club bank account, with 28 memberships listed on the TBOF mailing list. An announcement in the November Stickbow was that Scott Ware was the new panhandle representative, and Scott had already located at least 3 other traditional shooters in the Tallahassee area.

The first spring shoot was held at the Gibson Ranch in Reddick Florida on March 2, 1991. The shoot featured Ariels by STX target launchers, 3-D target round with targets borrowed from Hog county Archers, knife and spear throwing, spot shoot and rolling targets. Byron Barfield of Georgia won the top bow award with just over 100 shooters attending.