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Beginning January 1, 2024, Nishu will not be accepting checks at tournaments or for memberships. Also, new members filling out memberships will be online only.
We finally will have someone manning the office, for our opening shooting hours, starting next week. Here are the open shooting hours;
- Sundays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- Mondays & Fridays 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
This will start Friday, 12/29 and go through the month of March.
Open shooting hours are open to everyone. Even if you are not a member. Members shoot free. Non-members pay $10/adult & $3/youth(under the age of 18
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2024
January 2—Nishu Open House
January 19-21—Western Classic
January 26-27—USA State JOAD and Championships
February 9-11—Midwinter Shoot
March 2—4H District Match
March 8-9—Nishu Buckle
March 10—ACA State Indoor 3D
April 2—Annual Meeting
April 6-7—Last Chance Tournament
May 5—Spring Clean Up, 4 PM—all welcome to help
October 18-20—NCEA Camp
2025
March 1—SW 4-H District Match
April 12—State 4-H
This club was established in Bismarck in 1956 as the Nishu Archery Club. The club established an outdoor shooting and target range in south Bismarck in 1958. The outdoor range has evolved, through club efforts, into a 28-target outdoor range. Now known as the Nishu Bowmen Club, the group developed a strong and effective working partnership with Bismarck Parks and Recreation District (BPRD). For more than 30 years, BPRD provided space in the World War Memorial Building for the club to teach archery classes to children and adults.
That facility’s space limitations, combined with the growing interest in archery and target shooting, lead the club officers, in August of 2003, to make a proposal to the Bismarck Board of Park Commissioners to cooperatively build an all season indoor archery facility next to their outdoor range.
The Nishu Bowmen Club provided a detailed plan for their proposed 90′x150′ facility, which included three different funding sources: the general public, club members and funds from the ND Game and Fish Department. The proposal also included the donation of in-kind services from club members.
An indoor range would provide an opportunity for increased offerings for public archery classes, adaptive archery classes, indoor and outdoor shooting competitions, a 20-yard target range on the upper level and a lower level, 30-yard range for hosting 3-D leagues and tournaments and, overall, a structure that would be unlike any other in the Midwest, benefiting not only archery enthusiasts, but the community of Bismarck as a whole.
The Board of Parks Commissioners moved unanimously to move forward and help make the indoor facility a reality. The Nishu Bowmen Club provided countless hours of volunteer labor to finish the interior of the facility, as well as the surrounding grounds. This expansion was completed in 2019.
Prior to this most recent expansion, on July 25th, 2008, the Nishu Bowmen Club dedicated their new indoor facility, which has an appraised value of $900,000. All classes and competitions now take place at the combined indoor/outdoor complex. It is a one of a kind facility, adding to the diversity of recreational programming opportunities in Bismarck, and is an appropriate fit with the BPRD Vision and Mission.
From beginners to the old pros, the Nishu Archery Club belongs to and serves the members – and they would like you to become one of them.