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Black Mountain Bowmen (est. 1949) is a non-profit organization located in San Jose, California, where we operate the archery range at Santa Teresa County Park.
The renewal form for 2026 BMB membership applications and renewals is open for business.
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Membership - Black Mountain Bowmen
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December 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We're fortunate to live in a place where we can enjoy outdoor archery year round, even if it is a little chilly or a little damp; here's what's going on at BMB this coming month: blackmountainbowmen.net/2025/12/28/b...
Black Mountain Bowmen January 2026 updates - Black Mountain Bowmen
Happy New Year everyone! We hope you've enjoyed a great winter holiday, whichever one(s) you celebrate. Here's looking forward to another action-packed year in archery... New leadership team With the ...
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December 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Your membership dollars at work: we recently took delivery of a whole truckload of high-density archery target bales from Little Sioux (formerly Pacific Bow).
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December 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
With the leadership election in the books, here's your 2026 BMB leadership team: reprising their roles from last year are President Chris Plumeau, Treasurer Ron May-Pumphrey, Secretary Viet-Tam Luu, and Board members Chuck Gilbert, Thalia Hsieh, Mark Nishihara, and Winston Wang.
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December 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The minutes from the September 3, 2025 Black Mountain Bowmen Board of Directors meeting are now available on the BMB website's "Meeting Minutes" page (blackmountainbowmen.net/minutes/).
Meeting Minutes - Black Mountain Bowmen
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October 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Black Mountain Bowmen hosted over 80 archers for the CBH/SAA State 900 shoot this past weekend. The weather cooperated with initially cool and overcast conditions on Saturday, and clear skies but moderate temperatures and only a bit of wind on Sunday.
September 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
With Labor Day weekend upon us, it's hard to believe we're already wrapping up another summer!

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Black Mountain Bowmen September 2025 updates - Black Mountain Bowmen
With Labor Day weekend upon us, it's hard to believe we're already wrapping up another summer! Even with summer ending, there's lots happening in September in the local archery scene; here are your up...
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August 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We are aware that our website has been intermittently unavailable and/or slow to load and respond in the last couple of days. We're working on it, our apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience!
August 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Volunteers needed Friday evening for MTBA 900 tournament setup

Greetings BMB (and MTBA) archers! County Parks has informed us that they can no longer open the gates early for us on tournament days, as they have in the past.

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August 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Thank you to everyone who came out to today's range maintenance work party: Gregg, Harmon, Ron, Deems, James, Sam, Patrick, Brandon, Ann, Tam.

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August 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
We hope everyone has been enjoying the relatively cool summer we've been experiencing so far. July's been a pretty eventful month at and around the range; here are a few highlights: blackmountainbowmen.net/2025/07/30/b...
Black Mountain Bowmen August 2025 updates - Black Mountain Bowmen
Hello BMB'ers! We hope everyone has been enjoying the relatively cool summer we've been experiencing so far. July's been a pretty eventful month at and around the range; here are a few highlights: As ...
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July 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Interested in introducing people to the sport of archery? We're looking for a few more volunteers for tomorrow's Santa Clara County Parks "A Taste of Archery" event (parks.santaclaracounty.gov/taste-archery).
A Taste of Archery | Santa Clara County Parks | County of Santa Clara
Join the Black Mountain Bowmen to learn how to shoot a compound or recurve bow. Ages 7 and up with parent. A mandatory safety class and equipment are provided.
parks.santaclaracounty.gov
July 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This week, Santa Clara County Parks installed a new memorial bench, between our Lower 14 field course targets 2 and 3. The bench is dedicated to the memory of long-time Black Mountain Bowmen member Bob DeLong, who passed away last February.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Happy Friday, BMB'ers! Here are a few updates and reminders ahead of this weekend: blackmountainbowmen.net/2025/07/11/b...
BMB weekend updates, Friday July 11 - Black Mountain Bowmen
Happy Friday, BMB'ers! Here are a few updates and reminders ahead of this weekend: Have a great weekend everyone!
blackmountainbowmen.net
July 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A huge THANK YOU goes out to all who showed up to today's range maintenance work party: Gregg, James, Harmon, Harold, Ron, Patrick, Jessie, Brandon, Ann, along with Lynn and her crew from the Morgan Hill Community Garden.
July 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
For anyone thinking about getting your own BMB archery jersey, now is the time to get your order in! We need a few more orders to fill out this batch and our vendor informs us that if you want your jersey in time for one of the tournaments in August, you should get your order in as soon as possible.
July 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Since many BMB members will be competing at this weekend's California State Outdoors Championships tournament (calarchery.net/event/2025-s...) as their first USA Archery sanctioned event, we wanted to alert you to some important rules that you may not be aware of, notably:
2025 State Outdoor Championships – State Archers of California
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June 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Provisional final 3D League scores and standings are available

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2025 3D League! Thanks also to all the volunteers who made it happen!

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Provisional final 3D League scores and standings are available - Black Mountain Bowmen
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2025 3D League! Thanks also to all the volunteers who made it happen! We've crunched the numbers and posted the provisional final scores and per-division ...
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June 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Our friends at Predators Archery and the organizers of the upcoming California State Outdoor Championships tournament (taking place in Gilroy, June 27-29) are looking for volunteers to help out with the event:

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Volunteers needed for California State Outdoor Championships tournament - Black Mountain Bowmen
Our friends at Predators Archery and the organizers of the upcoming California State Outdoor Championships tournament (taking place in Gilroy, June 27-29) are looking for volunteers to help out with t...
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June 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
BMB jerseys available for ordering (again)!

For those who missed the first round of orders for Black Mountain Bowmen archery jerseys, or for those who want another one, we're happy to announce that ordering is once again open for jerseys.

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June 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM