Sad baskets

Hole #9 - Limon DGC in Limon CO.

This is the only basket that was not on flat ground, but it was the only one of 10 destroyed. Very nice sign for the course at the entrance, and decent looking tee signs. But they have not mowed this course in a long time. I spend WAY to much time looking for discs on this 5000+ ft 10 hole course with zero trees.

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Hole #9 - Limon DGC in Limon CO.

This is the only basket that was not on flat ground, but it was the only one of 10 destroyed. Very nice sign for the course at the entrance, and decent looking tee signs. But they have not mowed this course in a long time. I spend WAY to much time looking for discs on this 5000+ ft 10 hole course with zero trees.

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I don't understand why someone would play an unmowed 5000+ ft 10 hole course with no features except tall weeds. I might play it if it was within easy walking distance and I didn't have transportation. You course baggers are a different breed.
 
I don't understand why someone would play an unmowed 5000+ ft 10 hole course with no features except tall weeds. I might play it if it was within easy walking distance and I didn't have transportation. You course baggers are a different breed.
you are NOT wrong. I have removed so many courses of this page over the years showing up to courses to play and finding nothing there or vast majority of the course gone.

Shoot, a 9 hole course in KS was on here, I drove 30 min out of my way and found 1 basket left, no evidence of any sort of tee's. Needless to say, you can find that one under "practice courses" with one basket listed.
 
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Practice Basket got parked this morning at Hobby Hill in Gladstone, MO. Guy hit a cop car and drove off. Apparently he fled on foot after this.
Obviously sad basket situation but it's hilarious to think some drunk guy is on his great escape and thinks he's found a glorious path through the park and a disc golf basket jumps out in front of him. Stand that basket back up whack it vaguely into shape with a sledgehammer and call it the dui basket.
 
Even when it was brand new, the "Gopher QuikShot" basket deserves a place in this conversation. Barely any chains, the target area is too tall and the basket is too narrow, all of which encourage both cut-throughs and bounce-outs. Leaving it out in a field behind West Middle School in Portage, MI for four years has not done it any favors, rusting the chains and causing the welds on 2/9 baskets (so far) to fail. Starting to think that their claim of creating the "most durable and stable portable disc golf target on the market" and "ten aluminum chains prevent discs from popping out" might be a little false advertising...
 

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Even when it was brand new, the "Gopher QuikShot" basket deserves a place in this conversation. Barely any chains, the target area is too tall and the basket is too narrow, all of which encourage both cut-throughs and bounce-outs. Leaving it out in a field behind West Middle School in Portage, MI for four years has not done it any favors, rusting the chains and causing the welds on 2/9 baskets (so far) to fail. Starting to think that their claim of creating the "most durable and stable portable disc golf target on the market" and "ten aluminum chains prevent discs from popping out" might be a little false advertising...
They didn't claim the person in the pic was a former World Champion, so at least they weren't completely misleading.
 
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Even when it was brand new, the "Gopher QuikShot" basket deserves a place in this conversation. Barely any chains, the target area is too tall and the basket is too narrow, all of which encourage both cut-throughs and bounce-outs. Leaving it out in a field behind West Middle School in Portage, MI for four years has not done it any favors, rusting the chains and causing the welds on 2/9 baskets (so far) to fail. Starting to think that their claim of creating the "most durable and stable portable disc golf target on the market" and "ten aluminum chains prevent discs from popping out" might be a little false advertising...
That they wanted $260 for that POS should be an automatic FTC fine
 
I'm unlucky enough to have played on QuikShots. They are as bad as they seem.
 
I'm unlucky enough to have played on QuikShots. They are as bad as they seem.

Luckily enough, at least around me, they're pretty rare to see.

I did have the pleasure of playing on them at a course this past summer though. They seemed somewhat newish and only had a few dangling chains at least, so that's pretty cool...
 
Cant say I've had the pleasure of playing a course equipped with QuikShots. 🙂
 

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