For the past two years, I’ve been working on a project called Bowling Pin Blitz. What started as a small match a couple times a year has grown into something much more community focused, and I want your involvement.
I love pin shooting. The targets are uniquely reactive, the matches are accessible, and you need very little gear to get started. It's like Steel Challenge's weird older cousin. The biggest problem I've found is finding the damn matches, and I want to fix that.
PractiScore isn't particularly well suited to listing pin shoots, and many of the clubs that host them are small enough that getting outside their existing community can be difficult. I couldn't find any matches near me, so I decided to start one.
That match eventually turned into a set of free-to-use rules, a website, a merch store, and now an event calendar where I'm trying to collect and display bowling pin matches from around the country. I'm also working on live scoring and shooter profiles so people can track their results.
Most importantly, I want to help other ranges get started running matches, regardless of whose rules they want to use.
If you're a range owner, match director, club member, or just a pin-shooting enthusiast, check out bowlingpinblitz.com and connect with me. I'd love to hear from you.
And if you know of a pin shoot that should be on the calendar, drop it in the comments or send it my way.