The Dust Off Archery Shoot

2026 Shooter Registration is open! Click the link below to select a shoot time and purchase your ticket. Shoot block times do fill up. Be sure to register early to select a time that you prefer.

Shoot Times: 8:30am / 11:30am / 2:30pm

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2026 Location & Dates

The 2nd Annual Dust Off will take place at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio.

123 Gano Rd. Wilmington, Ohio 45177

Saturday August 1st: 8:30am-6:00pm (shoot block times will be assigned at time of registration)

2026 Payouts

Each class will payout 3 places.  

  • $300 for 1st
  • $200 for 2nd
  • $100 for 3rd

Overall championship, paying out:

  • $2000 for 1st
  • $1000 for 2nd 
  • $500 for 3rd

*Top three championship archers are only eligible for championship payouts. Class payouts will go to archers not eligible for the overall championship.

Classes, Scoring, and Rules

Shooting Classes 

  1. Open Class.  Any archer, male or female,  shooting a bow, 16 years or older with a movable sight.  This is the class for archers with sights they will move from shot to shot for yardage during the shoot.  Even if the sight has multiple pins, if the archer moves the aperture for a certain yardage that archer will in the open class.   
  2. Hunter Class. Same as open, but fixed pin sights. No limit on number of pins, but they may not be moved for yardage during the shoot. Traditional equipment may be used in the hunter class. There will be no seperate class or yardages for traditional archers.

Scoring

  1. Modified Fred Bear 12, 10, 8, -4, 0.  Wounding is worse than missing.  There will be a 4 point penalty for wounding an animal.  (What is traditionally scored as a 5.)

Arrows

  1. No Glue in Points.
  2. No speed limit.
  3. No restrictions on vane length.
  4. No arrow with an outside diameter larger than 0.310" (Inside diameter of 0.246" or 6mm"

Rules

  1. 20 target course, Known yardage, max shot of 50 yards for all classes. Yardages will be provided, and range finders are allowed to be used on the course.
  2.  Bowhunter Equipment Only. NO TARGET ARCHERY SETUPS
  3. No lenses in sights of any kind.  
  4. Stabilizer front bar max length of 17.5" (including weights and quick disconnects). Only one back bar with max length of 14.5" (including weights and quick disconnects).