What age to start kids?

[Ranger B]

3

[eric-thor]

good stuff...                  

[Osagetree]

My two new Grandchildren will be 1yr in mid August. They will have a selfbow then! But, I wont expect them to be able to shoot; it will just be a more familiar item to them once they do try and start shooting.
I think by the age of three they'll be familiar with making sticks fly!

[Onions]

I built my daughter a pink longbow for her second birthday. Now she is three and can shoot it by herself. Actually she informed me last week that she wants to shoot a moose with her pink bow, when she gets older!
Have another daughter turning two this Nov. She will also get a pink longbow for her birthday

chris <><

[john fletch]

Ditto that suction cup set!  My sons started between 2 and 3 (they all used the same set!)

All of them got their Archery merit badge the first week they were Boy Scouts (about age 10 1/2) with well over passing scores.

Unfortunately two of them now prefer the training wheel bows, but one loves the longbow and self bows.  He does Mountain Man Rondys and SCA medieval events.  Both have historic archery events.  He is 21 now and "in the middle"

[mrpenguin]

My son is going to be 1 next week-where does the time go??-and though he isn't shooting, I do take him with me in the back yard and we watch Primal Dream together all the time!!  He loves the Spring Turkeys and can already say and identify 'deer'!  I love that boy!

[Wayne Meuir]

I bought my Grandson a bow in the spring of '09 when he was barely 7 years old and started working with him in the back yard. He came around pretty quickly and I started taking him to 3D shoots in June '09 and he does really well.

I did not start shooting archery until after my Son's were gone from home and neither of them had shown any interest in bowhunting. After my Grandson got so involved, his Dad has now started shooting with us, so now, there are three generations of us at almost every shoot we attend.

My Son will bowhunt for the first time this year, and my Grandson is worrying me to death about when he can hunt, but that's a few years away yet, I expect.

Best thing now is that I get to spend more quality time with both my Son and Grandson and that alone makes a huge difference in my life.

Wayne

[BUFF]

good stuff wayne

[AZ_Shooter]

Thank you gents for all of the ideas and heart warming tales.  Like you Erik, I can't believe that my little guy will be one soon, and already he wants to do everything that dad is doing.  I think that I will start by letting him watch me shoot, and then when he is a little older get him one of the suction cup bow and arrows.  If he continues to show interest, Maddog archery will be getting an order.

I hope that you all enjoy your weekends!

[Gordy]

How about 18 months ?     little bit at a time, nothing ever forced...keep it fun and they'll catch right on !