Looking to the Winners of this Weeks BIG Game
October 6, 2011 by CollegiateCamo · Leave a Comment
CollegiateCamo loves a good football game and there are several coming up this weekend.
Our “kick off” decal promotion for the winners of last week’s games has been a big success!
This decision isn’t like the games the big boys pick…it’s not a “Game Day” event.
But still, it’s a tough decision to choose just one game as our big game of the week . However, this weeks choice is clear. It has to be an inter office choice–Kansas State verses Mizzou.
CollegiateCamo has many connections on both sides; makes for an office divided for sure!
Which team will come out to be the big winner?
The local sports writers have it a “neck in neck” game. Mizzou had last week off so will that give them the needed rest for their injured weary team to play to victory or will K State continue the momentum from their good fortune streak of wins this season and have the bragging rights?
Could Mizzou be distracted about moving to another conference?
Could K State have the advantage playing at home?
Well, whatever the outcome there will be lots of “jabs taken” at the office next week.
Our BIG promotion for the BIG Game this week is that the Winners team FANS will receive 20% off their entire decal order. (Discount Code posted after the game)
Good luck to all…..
“Mizzou Tiger Open” Benefit Shoot a Successful Fund Raiser
August 23, 2011 by CollegiateCamo · Leave a Comment
School is upon us, and it’s a great time to hit the shooting range. At Mizzou, the shooting team will have a few more dollars at its disposal to recruit new members to the University of Missouri Shooting Team.
The “Mizzou Tiger Open” Benefit Shoot was held July 30, 2011 was a huge success. Many local shooting sports fans came out to join in the fun of the Benefit Shoot, as well as one family that traveled from as far as Florida to attend!
The reunion with the 1971-72 Mizzou Shooting Team and the current team was a huge success. Only one member from the former shooting team lineup was unable to attend.
It was a scorching Missouri July with the temperature reaching the upper ’90s, but no one seemed to let the heat get them down.
CollegiateCamo’s own Pro Staffer Jenny Romanin traveled from Colorado to be a part of the event. She was on that day, and placed 2nd in Sporting Clays in the 50 target division.
Two of the 1971-72 team members placed, too – Denny Spurling and Bill Fretwell. Oh yeah, they still have it!
The following talented shooters won awards at the Mizzou Tiger Open Benefit Shoot:
- CHAMPION Sporting Clays – Ralph Gates
- 1st Place Sporting Clays 50 Targets – Jon Doolittle
- 2nd Place SPorting Clays 50 Targets – Jenny Romanin
- 1st Place Sporting Clays 100 Targets – Garret Benskin
- 2nd Place Sporting Clays 100 Targets – Warren Pinson
- 1st Place American Trap – Denny Spurling
- 2nd Place American Trap – Bill Fretwell
Congrats to all our winners and best of luck to the 2011-2012 Mizzou Shooting Team!
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- 1971-72 Mizzou Shooting Team Reunion
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- Mizzou Shooting Team Benefit Shoot – ’71 Team Captain Larry Houston
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- Mizzou Shooting Team Benefit Shoot – Jenny Romanin
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- Mizzou Shooting Team Benefit Shoot – Ryan Mason & Kim Heiman
Mizzou Shooting Team Fundraiser
June 28, 2011 by CollegiateCamo · Leave a Comment
Ryan Mason & Larry Houston have a very special friendship that is bound by their loyalty to the University of Missouri Tigers and their love for shooting sports. Ryan is this years reigning ACUI champ for Men’s Combined Trap Events; Larry was on the 1972 Mizzou team that won the ACUI International Trap championship.
They met this year at the Kansas State “Meet me at the Crossroads” collegiate event in which several collegiate teams traveled to Kansas City from as far away as Virginia Tech to compete for titles.
It was a match made in Heaven! They began discussing old times; reunion ideas; shooting events….and the Tiger Open concept was born. Ryan has done all the planning and logistics and Larry has contacted all his former team mates from 1971 & 72 to invite them to attend. They are both surprised at the interest and the response from former team mates that plan to travel back to Columbia for a fun weekend of camaraderie and shooting.
We asked Larry about the team back in 1971 and this is the report we got:
“In 1971 there wasn’t a shot gun team at Mizzou; I learned that other colleges were competing nationally and started recruiting my quail hunting buddies to form a team. Few of them had any experience with shooting clay targets. We all practiced regularly. At that time the ACUI tournament was held at the Lake of the Ozarks at the Missouri Trap Shooters Association grounds. Our team competed there in 1971 and won 2nd place in International Trap and placed in the top 10 teams for American Trap. The 2nd year (1972) the team won the International Trap division and I took 2nd place in Individual Trap, losing by 1 target to Steve Carmichael. That year we took 2nd place in American Trap. Due to our performance, all of the team members received an invitation to the Olympic Regional Trials in San Antonio. Bill Fretwell and I drove to San Antonio from Missouri and competed. I was the winner of the gold medal in the college division. Because of that I received an invitation to the Olympic Trials for the 1972 Munich Olympics. It was an honor to be among the approximately 75 shooters in the nation that received the invitation.
Since that time I’ve only been in contact with 1 of my former team mates. When Ryan and I began discussing a reunion event to benefit the current team we got really excited. Many of my teammates plan to attend.”
CollegiateCamo.com is very happy to announce that we will be sponsoring the first ever Tiger Open that will directly benefit the University of Missouri’s shooting team. Come out and meet present national awards winners from the MU team and members from the 1972 ACUI International Trap Team Champions will be there!
The event is being held on July 30-31st, 2011 at Prairie Grove Shotgun Sports in Columbia, MO. The event opens at 9 am on July 30 with the sporting clays event and lasts until 2 pm. The fun continues on Sunday with the trap and wobble trap event.
For the GPS-enabled folks, the address to the fund raiser is:
Prairie Grove Shotgun Sports
1420 County Road 276
Columbia, MO 65202
Awards will be presented to the top shooters and don’t forget all the great camo MU Tigers items that will be available for sale at the booth! Come have a great time supporting a great cause! We look forward to seeing you there!
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- Missouri Shooting Team Fundraiser
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- Mizzou Shooting Team Fundraiser
MU Defeats KU! (Again)
December 12, 2010 by CollegiateCamo · Leave a Comment
We’re not just talking about the Border War 2010 Showdown at Arrowhead Stadium, where the Missouri Tigers stomped the Kansas Jayhawks in a 35 to 7 football game. Mizzou beat Kansas in another way last month. Loyal fans! Last month Tigers fans took down the Jayhawks in the number of camo fan items purchased from CollegiateCamo!
University of Kansas Jayhawks sold 15 items!
University of Missouri Tigers sold 18 items!
Full-disclosure, we tend to lean a little MU-friendly here at CollegiateCamo, but we promise it wasn’t rigged and we’re not buying our own stuff! A victory is still a victory! Go Tigers!
MU Tigers vs KU Jayhawks Border Showdown 2010
Shoot like a girl? Better hope you can.
August 5, 2010 by CollegiateCamo · Leave a Comment
Better be careful with how you answer that, because you might just be asking for more competition than you can handle, guys. History has proven that women can hold their own when it comes to firearms and beat even the toughest competition – men or women.
When you hear the name Annie Oakley, certainly you imagine scenes of the old west back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. You’ve seen the photos of Annie with her rifle, dressed in a long flowing dress and a smile on her face. She was quite the sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Her talents gave her the title of first American female superstar acting in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. It’s been told that Annie could with her .22 caliber rifle split a playing card 90 feet up and split it card edge on plus putting 5 or 6 more holes in the card before hitting the ground.
Then there were the other female shooting heroes of the Old West! Calamity Jane who was a sharp shooter and also a performer in Buffalo Bills show. It’s been told she liked her alcohol — wonder if that’s where the name came from? And then there was Belle Starr who liked to hang out with the desperados back then. Could she have been the originator of “Good girls have no fun”? She reportedly had several marriages and a bad temper. (I wonder which came first.) Importantly, though—she could shoot!
Now to bring us up to date with some of the modern gals that are the best of the best. Kim Rhode is our American hero. Four-time Olympian 1996, 2004 gold medalist,2000 bronze medalist,2008 silver medalist. Kim got her competitive start in American skeet, winning the championship at age 13 then becoming captain of the All American team at 14.
Our own Midwest gal Haley Dunn from Eddyville, Iowa started shotgunning competitively at age 12. When she was 14, she entered the Iowa State Sporting Cays Championship and won the Gold Medal. Haley was the youngest lady champion in the event’s history. From there she went on to claim the Iowa state championship three more times. Lucky for the University of Missouri, where Haley graduated with a degree in Agricultural Business Management in 2007, she was active with the Mizzou Shooting Team. There she won the Gold Medal and HOA Ladies Championship at the ACUI Intercollegiate Clay Target National Championships. Haley recently claimed her first Gold medal of 2010 at the shotgun World Cup in Lonato, Italy, taking her first step toward the 2012 Olympic Games. Impressively, she is ranked #1 in the USA, and is making her second appearance on the 2010 World Cup circuit. She smashed 73 out of 75 targets, and entered the Final with a one target lead over the rest of the field. Missing only one target in the Final, Dunn ended the day hitting 97 out of 100.
We will keep an eye out for great shooting achievements from all women who do “shoot like girls” and are proud of it.
Shotgun Shooting Sports Outing
July 11, 2010 by CollegiateCamo · 1 Comment
Any day you can go shooting is a great day! We rounded up the CollegiateCamo team and had a great time this weekend blasting away at clay targets and meeting new friends.
We had way more Kansas State fans shooting in our little group, but we did manage to get some representation from the Mizzou fans and KU fans. (Surprisingly, we were all still friendly and speaking to each other at the end of the competition.)
Statistics say that 19 million Americans safely enjoy target shooting. And we were no exceptions. We were shotgunning and hit the Trap Field with determination. “Trap” is the oldest shotgun shooting sport in America.
On our future outings, we plan to try our luck at Skeet & Sporting Clays as well! With almost equal distribution in our group of half gals and half guys, we had quite the battle of the sexes competition going.
There are several other organizations we believe are important to shooting sports, too. You can find out more about the game of trap from the Amateur Trapshooting Association. The Scholastic Clay Target Program and the ATA’s AIM program provide shooting competition opportunities for young trap shooters.
One of our favorite organizations is The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which administers First Shots, a program that introduces newbies to shooting.
For those of you who have not tried shotgun sports competition and games, we highly recommend it! We had an absolute blast!
2010 NCAA Tournament Bracket Announced!
March 14, 2010 by CollegiateCamo · 2 Comments
Just announced - the NCAA Men’s March Madness Tournament Bracket! Congrats to the Big 12 conference teams (home conference of CollegiateCamo) for getting a whopping 7 teams in the “Big Dance!”
Will the Kansas Jayhawks (1st seed) be the national champs? The Big 12 Conference prides itself with Kansas State (2nd seed), Oklahoma State (7th seed), Texas (8th seed) Missouri (10th seed), Texas A&M (5th seed) and Baylor (3rd seed).
We’re proud of the other CollegiateCamo teams that made it in the tournament: Northern Iowa, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Minnesota, Florida, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Clemson.
It will be a wild and crazy NCAA tournament. The only similarity between the talented teams in the 2010 NCAA basketball competition is that all CollegiateCamo teams’ favorite color is camo!
Check out the complete 2010 NCAA Tournament Bracket. Make sure to show your pride for your favorite team and pick up some camo gear with your college’s logo on it.
Tell us who you are rooting for! Who do you think will be the national champion in the 2010 NCAA Tournament?
