Thanks Denny,
I don't want to hi-jack Michael's thread, just wanted to give some advice to readers based on my experiences over the last decade. I've been very patient with my daughters. Always had some appropriate stuff available for them to shoot if they were showing any interest and until 3 years ago, they shared the same stuff and just took turns shooting. Then it took off. Hopefully that's where Michael is with his son. But I'm still careful to keep it fun for them. Even the December deep snow hunts I took them on were easy in and out of the woods in pop up blinds with plenty of stick on body heaters under their camo to keep them toasty.
We all hope our children follow our traditional archery passion, but that doesn't always happen. If they are in it, make it as enjoyable as possible and keep it low key so there's no pressure-they'll probably put that on themselves. If it's back yard practice, I often don't shoot with them, just watch, so they don't compare themselves to me(or pick up my bad habits as Ron LaClair would probably say).
Here's Morgan with her Dryad Phoenix Lite longbow coming back from an evening hunt on grandma and grandpa's fruit farm last December. This is two year's after where Michaels son is right now, so hopefully it sticks for him. By the way, Morgan is very competitive with her older sister, so she pushes herself:
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