These sorts of threads always make me smile. I've spent a lot of time away from home at college this year, 1200 miles from my bows and arrows and the shoots. I love seeing kids get into it like I did not that long ago. Just wanted to share a story about kids shooting. A few years ago I was at a shoot, and there was a father and son duo in the group right in front of us on the course. Son was about 16 or 17. Came up behind them on about a 35 yard shot at a standing bear as the son was shooting, last of the group, and watched him Robin Hood his dad's arrow right in the middle of the kill zone. The look on his dad's face was to die for, I don't think he even minded losing the arrow. Keep them shooting. My generation needs all the archers we can get