Hey gang, it's been a long time since I've been around. Life happens, as we all know. Just wanted to stop in and say hi.
Lately I've been doing a lot of teaching. I now run the archery program for an outdoor education center. This summer I taught an archery camp. All archery, all day, every day. The kids did fairly well, but I was a little optimistic in my goals for them.
I started them out with basic technique, then moved into a set of training targets that were used at a school where I used to train. We used to shoot each target twice- one round untimed, one round timed for 30 seconds. The targets were a vertical stripe, training for a column, a tiny bullseye, training for a group and a standard 5 color. This was really about as far as the kids could go in one week.
The plan was for one challenge shoot each day: poker, tic tac toe, balloons and 3-D moving targets. I was so excited about those 3-d targets. I built a 14" circle from a pool noodle, put it on a rope and planned to have them shoot through it. I also made a small log from pool noodles on a rope and planned to swing it and have them shoot that. All these challenges were too hard for them! We still had a good time, though.
Anyhoo, the final challenge of our camp was to walk a log, take a shot to one side, spin on the log and take a shot on the other side. The kids didn't do well at all with this hunter-style training shoot. I put the targets at random distances. There were trees to shoot around to some degree.
Finally they pestered me to demonstrate. One little girl started the pack to hollering that I needed to hit the little triangle in the middle. So I did.
Thought you might find this little story amusing. Hope all are well and ready for deer season, which is nearly here in my part of the world (piedmont of NC).
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