Logo

I had an image in my head for a logo...it was simple. It was then a task of finding someone with artistic flare that I could count on to draw it up.
I didn't have to look far.
My neice, Kara, is quite the accomplished artist...I'm sure she will be famous someday...if for nothing else...the drawing of our logo. ;o)
She did a number of really cool drawings, some of which may very well be darn near perfect...
We decided on the current logo that you see on the blog.

To add variation and class....the Management will have a unique logo. Green Jackalope with a red eye. ('cuz we work so much we have red eyes...lol)

For the ladies, the logo will have a 'pink eye'....no relation to the infection 'pink eye' but we do hope the ladies league WILL be contagious and have a lot of members.

For the youth, Blue eyes....and so on.

It's still a work in progress, and like I said, it's fun doing all of this stuff...

I'm sure we will have unique club cards as well...gotta have another card to carry, right?

In the beginning....a new archery club.

It was sometime last year when I wondered about having an indoor archery range. Why?

Well, it may have had something to do with the rattler that was in the pathway at Usery Park, it may have been the swarm of bees that flew by....or...it could have been the relentless heat that we get in Arizona...

I tossed the idea over with my friends and relatives, some supportive, some skeptical, some negative... I didn't care one way or the other, it was something to do while I recovered from being in the hospital and being so sick last year.

Even if this never comes into being, I'm having fun attempting it...

I see my twilight years as a firefighter coming to an end soon...so I ask myself, 'What can I do, in order to stay happy and busy?"

Since I enjoy archery, seems like a good thing to try, and with my two partners, I am moving forward.

I struggled with a name, I wanted something....'Unique'....and not strap myself down to one location either. So...no 'Southwest', or 'Arizona', or 'Desert'...or any local name either.

Something inside of me said, 'What would happen if you franchised in Australia?"

I know...lofty idea right?

Choosing a name for your own business is tricky, you want to enjoy saying it, hearing others say it, see it on a billboard, bumper sticker, or t-shirt.

Things came to mind, Bears Den, Cougars Lair, (wife didn't like that one...seems that it has some relationship to older - single women), Robins Hood, Straight Arrow, and so on.

One day, my brother in law happened over to show me some drawings he had done, he unrolled one and said, 'This one if especially for you Barry, since I know you like Jackalopes so much."

And when he rolled out the burlap, there it was, a really cool drawing of a grey Jackalope."

"That's IT!!! That's the name I'm going to call my business, Jackalopes Archery!"

It felt good, it was original, unique, new, gimmicky....and certainly not limited to Arizona.

So that's where things began, in a sense.