ROANOKE (1080 KRLD) - In Roanoke, there's a place where you can go shooting.
But you don't use rifles and bullets - you use bows and arrows.
Cinnamon Creek Ranch is North Texas’ biggest archery range.
It started out as a wild game processing facility.
It still offers that service; but when it moved to its current 80-acre location on Old Denton Road in 2008, it branched off in a different direction.
“We’re bow hunters,” says owner Joe Musacchio. “We were golfers first; and when we got this place, we said, ‘Well, let's build ourselves in archery range.’ So we built an archery range, and it became like the gust of archery.”
Since then, Cinnamon Creek Ranch has been the premier archery range in North Texas.
“We just held the state finals for the TFAA (Texas Field Archery Association),” says Musacchio. “They had almost 500 shooters.”
Aside from archery competitions, Cinnamon Creek offers archery lessons and youth camps.
And Musacchio says the youth camps have proven to be very popular.
“They'll do archery, then they do a field trip and they do fishing. So they do a little bit everything. They're here all day.”
They’re so popular that they’ll be offering more sessions this summer.
“It was so successful last year that we're doing five sessions (this year),” says Emily Adair, Cinnamon Creek’s events coordinator. “Five sessions of youth camp that include all the archery activities. It includes nature hikes on our 80 acres, and they get to go fishing in our creek. We do obstacle courses. We’ll have a water day, where it's filled with water games and balloon fights and water slides.”
The thing that Musacchio looks forward to the most is the mud run on a two-mile loop.
“They tie these ribbons on the back of my shorts. They give me a little bit of a lead, and then these kids run me down.”
Cinnamon Creek also proudly hosts team-building events.
“We divide people up into teams,” says Adair. “They shoot from different distances. They get to come up with their own fun names. (They) get to pick on the boss a little bit, which we really love to do.”
And corporate employees can burn off steam by shooting arrows at each other!
Don't worry -- it's 100-percent safe.
“We do an archery tag arena, which is like dodgeball or paintball but with bows and arrows,” Adair says. “The arrows have these padded tips on the end of them. I divide them into teams and (they) shoot at each other.”
There's also an on-site event center, which Musacchio says can host nearly any type of event imaginable.
“We get a lot of inquiries for weddings, big bachelor parties and adult birthday parties.”
Cinnamon Creek Ranch is open seven days a week, and Musacchio says it really is a place to just get away from it all.
“When they come here, we want them to relax,” says Musacchio. “Get rid of your shirt and tie and that corporate stuff, and smoke a cigar out there. Whatever you want to do.”