Over the weekend our 4H shooting sports club put on an day camp for the kids in our club. This was our first year running one of these and we had a blast. The kids got to do alot of shooting sports activities to include archery. Since I love traditional archery (and I am the lead archery instructor) I try to keep tradtional archery somewhat up front so to speak. I joke with the kids if they want to shoot one of our genesis bows saying they need training wheels etc. They are all good sports. And supprizingly most do prefer recurves or longbows.
Anyway I wanted to set something up they could make and have something to remember the day by. I ended up buy materials so they could make arrows. I preped up 30 arrows and got some feathers out (many thanks to a fellow tradganger) I ordered a few things from 3 rivers. Got out my bitzs' and I even took a bunch of selfbows out to show them that. They had a blast as you'll see from my pics. My daughter wanted is in a bunch of the pics too. She had a ball and now wants to make a bunch of arrows for herself.
My first customers
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Same boys with the finished arrows
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My daugter
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Kids getting help from my daughter LOL
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Shooting (Don't think I remembered to get a shot of anyone shooting thier own arrow. Though there is one in the ground quiver. (FluFlu'sbeing shot in the background.)
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A few fine examples of arrows they made.
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Hope you enjoy the pictures the kids sure did enjoy making the arrows.
Man that is great. Getting kids involved in the sport we love is great. Keep up the good work guys.
Looks like fun was had by all....
Kids and Traditional archery go together like Peanut butter and Jam....
I know I sure had fun. I had a time keeping the other instructors from making up all my arrows. I didn't want to run out for the kids.
They turned out pretty good for Wal-Mart dowel rods.