Indian Lake Outfitters and the Jersey Cow

Whether you're at Young's Jersey Dairy for the Farmstead Cheese, yummy food from the Golden Jersey Inn or the Dairy Store or maybe just the family fun pass and the cowlendar of events, there's a lot to be learned from the family owned business that started in 1869. Your children can relate to the farm animals, Cowvin's Kiddie Corral and the tractor play yard, Udders and Putters miniature golf or Elsie's driving range and giant slide.

The dairy farm is an educational and interesting experience to say the least. Not only do you get to explain to your kids where hamburger and milk comes from, they get to try 50 flavors of ice cream during the process, but only after you've expressed the need to use the hand sanitizer for the hundreth time at the petting zoo and the porta-johns.

What do all these have in common? They're branded to the jersey cow! Even the concrete miniature photo opportunities and jungle gym structures you find around the farm are unique but if you had to guess, you better bet they're placed with reason and have an overall purpose at the farm.

Archery Range Experience

When ILO is #iloaboutnabout, we're always trying to pick up ideas to brand and grow our business and local community. If you're looking for a unique local day out, come try our Archery Range Experience. Just like Young's Jersey Dairy, Indian Lake Outfitters is branded on family and fun. Bring your buddy or drag the kids along and come fling some arrows in our outdoor range! The equipment and instruction are included so all novice shooters are welcome. Our equipment is compatible for ages 5 and older and our family business is open 7 days a week for your family entertainment.

Call us at 937-842-1934 to schedule your visit or book it on the web now!

NOW LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN LAKEVIEW!

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Do You Know the Health Benefits of Archery?

Although a predominantly recreational sport, archery offers several health benefits both physically and mentally. Have you ever wondered how archery can strengthen your muscles and put you in better health? Yes? Then read on...

Archery is a great upper body strength builder, similar to lifting weights. Pulling and drawing back your bow requires a several second hold that places stress on both your arms and chest as well as your shoulders and back. Repetition leads to muscle development in most of the major muscle groups of your upper body.

Balance is vital to the success of your archery score because you have to be able to hold your body still while aiming and making that perfect shot. Just practicing the sport of archery helps you gain control over your balance as you focus on the target.

Another essential skill for archery is hand-eye coordination. Archery can actually train your hands to work together with your eyes while aiming and firing your arrow.

Shooting archery can be a great walking exercise. During competitions, you'll walk from target to target in short intervals improving your cardiovascular health, muscle tone and leg strength.

Mental focus is important to success as an archer. Developing focus can have a positive impact on your mental health and well being. The focus you learn from archery may even help you to overcome procrastination and distraction.

If you're interested in learning more about archery, or just want to give it a try, call or stop into Indian Lake Outfitters. We're open 7 days a week with an indoor, climate controlled archery range.

We offer equipment rental and lessons for the beginning archer as well as annual or quarterly range membership for the experienced archer. Gift certificates are also available.

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Shop & Save with the WPKO/WBLL Shopping Show

That's RIGHT! Shop and Save with Indian Lake Outfitters on the WPKO/WBLL Shopping Show. Be sure to listen every Saturday from 9am-11am on 98.3 WPKO and 1390 WBLL and Wednesday evenings beginning at 5:30 on 98.3 WPKO for your chance to purchase discount coupons good towards your experience at Indian Lake Outfitters.

Call 937-592-1045 for more details. Missed calling hours but still want to shop and save? Check out the $hopping $how deals on the web at the Peak of Ohio.

$hopping $how items may be purchased by phone at the WPKO/WBLL office between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday by calling 937-592-1045. Saturday the office is open from 11 a.m. to Noon for pickups.

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A Better Way to Save!

We've partnered up with the Bellefontaine Examiner to offer you a "Better Way 2 Save"!

Certificates are sold on a first come, first serve basis, so don't delay and start saving today with Indian Lake Outfitters. They can be purchased via cash, check or credit card and are valid for thirty days from the time of purchase.

Simply stop by the Bellefontaine Examiner office located at 127 East Chillicothe Avenue in Bellefontaine, Ohio anytime from Monday to Friday to purchase your discounted certificates to Indian Lake Outfitters.

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Archery Rental with the Boneheaded Tourist at Indian Lake

Indian Lake is the perfect vacation or relocation destination for lots of obvious reasons - the scenery, state parks, unique dining options, 5800 acres of water, 27 miles of shoreline AND INDIAN LAKE OUTFITTERS!! That's right, Indian Lake Outfitters, your retail connection for hunting, fishing, camping, archery and marine; just two blocks from the spillway.

We had the opportunity to entertain Ohio Traveler's Boneheaded Tourist for a few days. The Boneheaded Tourist, also referred to as BT, is a puppet created by Frank Satullo of Ohio Traveler for the purpose of highlighting tourism throughout Ohio. The Logan County Convention and Tourist Bureau hosted BT for his vacation in Logan County. During his week long stay, they brought him to Indian Lake and made a stop at Indian Lake Outfitters to check out the shop and test BT's archery ability.

As you know, we at Indian Lake Outfitters have an outdoor retail shop but we also opened an indoor archery range in November of 2010. The range is climate controlled for comfortable shooting year round, has enough space for up to 8 shooters at one time and offers a 20 yard shot into state of the art 4x4 Block targets. The beauty of the addition to Indian Lake Outfitters is that it doesn't matter if you're a first time archer or experienced pro, we have the knowledge and equipment to assist you with our complete line of shop tools, bow press and archery rental equipment.

Because BT was a first time archer and traveling the county, he didn't have any equipment. NOT A PROBLEM!! Our rental bow program includes all the necessary accessories needed to try the sport and participate regardless of skill level. We even offer instruction and assistance. So, when you're planning your next trip in the area whether it be business or pleasure and you're looking for something unique to do, stop into Indian Lake Outfitters and enjoy some time in our Indoor Archery Range. We can offer rental equipment that includes range time or you're always welcome to bring your own equipment and purchase range time for as little as 30 minutes, by the hour or we offer annual memberships that allow you to shoot at your convenience.

We enjoyed having the Boneheaded Tourist and hope to see you enjoy the same experience at Indian Lake Outfitters where you can release your inner outdoors!

Archery Leagues Now Forming

LEAGUES NOW FORMING

Thanks to all who have signed up and shown interest in participating in our Indoor Archery Leagues. For the next 7 weeks, we will have compound bow shoots on Tuesday nights at 4:00 and 7:00. Thursday nights will be an open “fun” shoot at 6:00 and Saturday mornings at 9:00am will be marked for our Traditional League shooters.

Please feel free to invite your friends to join us. The range is available for open shooting 7 days a week from 7am-6:30pm Monday thru Saturday and 8am-4pm on Sundays. We offer annual memberships for $100 with children and ladies being half-price. Guests can also shoot by the hour or half-hour. Keep in mind that we have rental equipment available and program packages for groups that wish to shoot in the range.

League prices are $8 per person per league and $5 for membership holders. We guarantee payouts and prizes to the top 3 spots of each league with the option of additional places based upon participation.

Leagues will start the week of April 10th and continue thru May 28th. Six of the 7 scores will be combined in the winning total with a handicap being assessed. Should you need more information, please don’t hesitate to call us at the shop anytime.

See you all next week - Indian Lake Outfitters Staff

Fish & Game Memberships

Are you looking to get out and enjoy a club or meet new people with the same interests as you? Instead of joining an on-line dating site, or heading to the local pub, consider becoming a member of your local Fish & Game - we can fix you up with a membership at Indian Lake Outfitters.

We are now offering memberships for both the Logan County and Indian Lake Fish & Games as well as the Indoor Archery Range here at Indian Lake Outfitters.  Fish & Game memberships are purchased for the 2011 calendar year and can be purchased for a youth, adult or family.

The Indian Lake Fish and Game is a community organization of over 100 sportsman & conservation conscience locals that assist in fish re-stocking projects, bird release projects, along with habitat & structure projects. This club was responsible for the introduction of Saugeye to Indian Lake which is now one of the major game fish that thousands of anglers seek each year.

In the past years the club has donated funds and equipment to the Ohio Division of Wildlife, offer the facilities to the local 4-H shooting group free of charge, hold Hunter Safety Courses, offer annual scholarships, and money to families in need.

Indian Lake Fish & Game organized and chartered in 1936 as the Indian Lake Community Club and hosted the 1947 Ohio State Trap Shoot in the same facility they use today. They are a very old community involved club focused on giving back to Indian Lake and supporting the future of the lake. They continue to host weekly trap shoots on Wednesdays as well as monthly shooting contest.

The Logan County Fish and Game offers a wide range of shooting ranges and catch and release fishing ponds for the entire family. With one of the few 200-yard rifle ranges in the area, visitors come from Columbus, Dayton, Lima and farther to site-in or to target practice. We also boast a trap range with 25 lanes, a pistol range and archery range.

Each club offers unique qualities making it an easy decision to be a member of both. For more information, contact either group individually or stop in to the shop (ILO) at 8081 State Route 366 in Russells Point to get your membership in person.  For your convenience, memberships for both clubs and the archery range can also be purchased from our web-site and your membership cards mailed to you.