Archery is one of the coolest sports available to youngsters They rarely need much motivation to get started. However, like any sport, practice is not only important, but quality instruction is needed to mitigate a steep learning curve.
Without instruction, kids tend do what they’ve always done. They may quickly plateau or become discouraged when arrows don’t group and their accuracy doesn’t improve.
It’s even a greater step into bowhunting. To help get them started the right way, check out these seven tips from the QDMA website.
Recently, bowhunter Mandy Hulett asked me if her young son Evan’s archery equipment was adequate for killing deer. She lives in a state where there is no minimum age limit for hunting, so it falls on the parents to decide when their children are ready to hunt. Most states have minimum bow draw-weights for deer hunting, which can certainly be used as the starting point. If your youth can’t pull the minimum required poundage, then they can’t hunt. But sometimes even that is a poor guide for starting young archers off right.
In my home state of New York, the law is “over 35 pounds.” In my humble opinion, anything less than 40 pounds is asking for wounded deer. Some hunters want to tell me about all the deer they have killed with bows below this poundage, but it doesn’t impress me or change my mind. No doubt someone out there has killed a deer with a jackknife. This article isn’t about the extremes. It’s about physics, common sense, and the law of averages. To get your young archer started right, you need to remove hurdles and put the odds of success on their side… [continued]
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