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Farm Day - Archery and Atlatl, pic heavy

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Dane:
I hope this is the right place to post these.

A buddy and I set up an informal atlatl and archery shoot at a little event in a town called Scotland, Connecticut. It was held on the grounds of the Waldo Farmstead, an early 18th century colonial farm.

We kept is simple, a few bales of hay, had two of my primitive bows and some arrows, and mostly focused on the atlatl. Way more kids showed up than we had expected, of course. :) It was nonstop from beginning to end. We kept it safe, and had some 18th century reenactors help us out, which was much appreciated. I'm guessiing there were close to a thousand spears tossed that day. And, I found out that a lot of the kids were really psyched about the atlalt, as it had been featured on that TV show The Deadliest Warrior.

I wish now I had made some kid sized bows and brought a bunch more arrows, but they seemed to adapt okay to the Sarnate bow and a new maple Tybrind Vig replica I had made, a Mesolithic flat bow. Actually, it was not quite tillered the way I wanted it, but was pretty light, and held up to the abuse the kids heaped on it. We only lost 3 darts between the two of us, as well.

Kids really do love archery and the atlatl. It was really gratifying to do this event.

Dane



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Dane:
More shots.

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Dane:
More. BTW, the kid dressed all in black in one of the above shots is a full blooded Apache. We also met a Penobscot Indian at the event. Kind of cool to introduce archery to Native Americans.

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John K:
Great pictures thanks for sharring !

youngbowyer33:
cool, i love deadliest warrior ;D

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