Archery

Today we drove over to Anniston, AL so that the three oldest could compete in the 4H shooting sports event.

They all did really well, Aric it looks like came in 4th with a score of 155 on a re-curve bow.

Thomas has some big time issues, he needs a left hand bow, which we our instructor Kim finally found Wed at a practice we had. The only problem was we all had the wrong parts together trying to make this bow. So we thought that we would just give him a right handed bow-that is what he had been practicing on all this time. But then we pulled apart a different bow and got the left handed one fixed. So he shot, left-with a messed up bow, right-with a good bow, then left with a good bow. I don't remember his score but I believe that it was good too.

Noah did just great probably came in 5th or 6th.


I wished that I had written all three of their scores down. Not bad for only starting on Valentine's Day.

After we left there we went to the new Bass Pro Shop in Leads, AL and talk to a wonderful man that worked there in the Archery department. David was great, he answered all of our questions, even let all of the boys-including Richard shot a compound bow. I am thinking that I will write a letter to the store to complement him, as there were a lot of people in the store that might have been out to buy something, and yet he stayed with us.

We have a lot to learn about all of the different parts to the bows, the correct sizes of the arrows, the proper way to string a bow and sight it. Then once we are good with the basics we will move onto making our own arrows-cutting them to size, putting the fetching, tips and notches on. Should be a lifelong adventure. It was a very long day, I fell asleep before posting this.