‘It’s gone’: Kamloops archery club reeling after thieves clean out stockpile of gear

An archery nine successful Kamloops, B.C., is reeling aft thieves stole thousands of dollars worthy of gear, overmuch of it utilized to present younker to the sport.

The Kamloops Target Sports Association said the devastating stroke came aboriginal Tuesday greeting erstwhile thieves broke into retention containers connected their Hillside Drive property.

Association president Geoff House said the containers housed astir 30 beginner-level bows, hundreds of arrows and associated instrumentality utilized to run their younker and big beginner programs.

“This has taken america galore years to physique up this stockpile, done donations, done a batch of fundraising, done events … truthful we tin beforehand and turn the sport,” helium said.

“Unfortunately we’ve mislaid that capableness present due to the fact that they cleaned america out, took each the bows, each the arrows and each the instrumentality needed (for) each of that.”

Other items stolen see covering with the club’s Kamloops Bowbenders logo, tools and instrumentality racks.

The nine had aggregate information cameras astatine the tract which captured images of what appeared to beryllium a antheral and pistillate thief, arsenic good arsenic a achromatic pickup truck.

The Kamloops RCMP is present investigating.

“It’s bittersweet … this is going to impact chiefly a batch of children’s programs,” said Stephanie Smith, president of Boorman Archery successful New Westminster.

Her store is sharing the images captured by the information cameras successful the hopes the thieves tin beryllium caught.

“Archery is simply a precise tight-knit community, and it’s benignant of hard to get escaped of stolen archery items. Some of them are rather significant, they are precise specific, the mode they are built,” she said.

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House said the theft acceptable the nine backmost thousands of dollars and is simply a tremendous stroke to morale.

But helium said the relation is holding retired anticipation they tin get the cogwheel back.

“Beyond those that are progressive successful the archery sport, (the stolen gear) has nary value. It has large worth to the nine and those that are involved, it truly shows organizational pridefulness and present it’s gone,” helium said.

“If idiosyncratic tries to merchantability you a bow, delight scope retired to the RCMP, particularly if they don’t person a receipt oregon impervious of purchase. We would truly similar to get this back, that’s truly our large goal.”