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JW_Halverson:
Absolutely contact all clubs throughout the country.  And if possible start asking archers to keep an ear out at the local pub. 

Around here we have a saying that the game warderns will swear is a inviolable truth..."More cases are solved in the bar than in the field". 

Guys like that just can't help but think they are so much smarter than the rest of us and they will eventually brag to someone.  Someone once posted a good curse on here once, "I pray their butt-hole grows shut and a new one develops on their forehead".  For that matter, I believe it was over a theft in that situation, too.

bobnewboy:
Hi Guys,

Thanks for all the support - it was the club that I belong to - The Company of Sixty - which was hit.  I think that Mark and I realise it is unlikely for the stolen 3Ds to get over to your side of the pond, but it is more useful that the other UK members (and hopefully PA subscribers like we are!) of this web-board get to hear about the theft via this great web site to which we all enjoy reading and contributing to.

We (my club) lease our woods (approx 120 acres) from The Crown Estate here in Surrey, south eastern England.   Recently our woods have been fairly heavily logged  (still going on to some degree), and it is thought that the constant entry and exit of heavy vehicles and equipment from the usually nondescript entrance-way to the Co60's woods may have attracted some unwelcome attention.  It may be that those who stole our stuff were likely to be after forestry equipment rather than the 3Ds, but then they took whatever they could get. We had a couple of trainer bows and some returned 'lost' arrows taken too, so it may be that the perps have given them to some er, undeserving people.

The 3Ds have been stored on non-shoot days in a very secure reinforced shipping container on-site for around a year now. It is difficult to see how that could be practically improved upon when people use industrial grade equipment and the relative remoteness of the woods to break into the storage. The 3Ds were branded as well, and there isnt a lot more that could be done in an unpowered woodland setting.

We still have some 3Ds to use, and so I guess we are lucky in the end.  Its just going to take a bit of time to build back up to where we were.  The course needs to be relaid anyway due to the logging  ;)

JW_Halverson:
Doesn't sound like a "crime of opportunity" like picking a yard gnome out of someone's garden.  These people planned, equipped themselves, and executed an intentional crime.  If you are going to that kind of effort, develop a business plan and be legitimate!

Thesquirrelslinger:
I frequently leave my target out, and my backyard is a major shortcut in my neighborhood.
I recall I left arrows out once, and somebody tried to swipe one. I caught them shooting it a few days later.
It is pretty funny to watch a teenager try to shoot a cane arrow intended for a 50 pound bow weighing well over 900 grains(the thing had a steel rod point, 1/4 inch diam, 6 inches long) off of a 20 pound genisis compound bow. I think it broke his bow.
Anyway, I watched him, then walked up to him, took the arrow back, and walked off.
I am probably the only person who makes bamboo arrows with steel points within a 10 mile radius that uses 2 fletchings instead of 3 and paints the nocks neon green.
-Squirrel

ncpat:
What a bummer. I cannot tell you how much I hate thieves. In fact, a thief would make an excellent target himself. Paint rings on the back of his shirt & give him a 1 minute head start in a fenced wooded area.

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