My Granddaughters were the proud recipient of a Mad Dog Pup about a year back now.
The TGMM Family of the bow, Mike and the guys that run the children program have help so many to experience the joy of archery and I'm doing my part to get it in as many hands as possible.
The last two years at our church Harvest Fest I have ran an archery shoot and I have had no problems getting the kids interested!
They have throughly loved it! Here's a few pic's from this years.
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I didn't take a pic of the ballon carnage it was "TOO GRAPHIC" not suitable for such a family oriented forum as Trad Gang :goldtooth:
Top of my Head I counted at least 26 separate child from 3 to 12, and teens on up to young adults all wanting to shoot and shooting!
And then these continue to cycle back through time after time. We shot non stop from 4pm till 7pm. 3 hours of nothing but shot after shot.
All kids got a bag of candy after shooting.
In the end I set up a game of archery Tic Tac Toe between the teen Girls against the teen Boys.
6 balloons, 2 sets of 3, of different colors were scattered on the hay bails. A set of 2 girls and 2 boys were given 4 arrows, one girl and boy acted as the arms bearer and fed the arrows to the shooter on their team.
When the signal was given they could shoot as fast as they could with the first to pop all of their colored ballon declared the winner.
To say it was a blast would be an understatement :archer2:
Good for you! It instills a hunt mode for them. I just came back for a hunt from a kid I taught at the same age that connected. It does happen. Congrats to you and the future hunter you made.
Awesome job. ^5
GREAT JOB.... Pass it on.. Archery is such a great sport. God Bless you.
Very cool indeed !
Good! It is really good to see such events. Anything that gives young people a chance to enjoy good, clean fun is great. It is even greater when it furthers our wonderful sport. Again, good job.
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing the pics and the story :archer2:
Very Good!!! Thank you for posting. :thumbsup:
Just Awesome!!!!
That is really cool to see! Great job!
Great idea/job!! :clapper:
May try at our church's harvest fest next year
That's awesome!!!
Thank guys
The kids of all ages have really taken to it.
Good stuff Brutha! Sad thing is a few of those girls had better form than me :banghead:
Thats what I was thinking Possum :saywhat: :goldtooth:
Greatness.....
,,Sam,,
Good post. It's good to see you pass it along
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Thank you for posting and spreading smiles!
What a great thing to do! :clapper:
awesome stuff, John! :clapper:
Awesome!!!
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Outstanding! Keep up the good work nd thanks & blessings for what you have already done - for archery & "youngers".
Probably before next year i'll need to locate a little longer bow for the bigger teens.
My normal hunting bow is just to much for them, and PuP was definitely hitting max draw on a couple of the older kids.
One of the young married couples wife came up and said "Ok I want to shoot! With emphasis on Shoot!
She seen how much fun the kids were having and wanted in on it to.
It was the same way last year, kids jockeying for line positions :eek: :biglaugh: :archer2:
Awesome!
You are a great ambassador for our sport!!
Another giveaway opportunity has been posted!
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=163;t=000310
Thanks for sharing that! Put a big ol smile on my face! :goldtooth: