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Wooden Spring:

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--- Quote from: Pat B on September 20, 2015, 04:02:45 pm ---Let him shoot without you showing him how. At his age it might be too much for him to comprehend. I have seen kids pick up a bow for the first time and have almost perfect form. Let him enjoy shooting and when he's a bit older try again.

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BINGO! Pat is exactly right.  My son has been shooting since he was 18 months old.  I didn't really show him how to shoot.  I just put the bow in his left hand and showed him how to nock an arrow but he took care of the rest.  He is almost 5 years old now and shoots better than most kids 8-10.

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Well, yes and no... I've seen a kid pull the arrow back with perfect form, reach anchor point, and let go of the BOW instead of the ARROW, and the bow came back and smacked him in the face. I swear it looked like something out of a Buggs Bunny cartoon. What hurt the most were the bruises that his mother gave me when I couldn't stop laughing! Technique is certainly something to be learned by doing, but I've learned that you need to at least start with the basics, or their mom will get you for SURE!

crooketarrow:
   Here's how I did with both of my sons. I've always been a stup shooter. They loved to tag along. So I combind shooting with fun of going along. Gave them a bow arrow and fields where they they can watch their arrows fly.

  Don't try to push form on them already. Make it fun remember it's not for you it's to show your child how fun it is. Let him do his own thing for him not you.

  Here's another thing do'nt start you child off 4,5,6,7,8 years old. Let him deside. No worse way to start your kid off hunting because you want him to. He's young gets boardin 10 min's. He  frezzing the whole time he huntin with you. He's only there because you want him there.

  Both my boys were alway around and fired up at what ever I was doing. And was always hanging around. So when we made them a bow. It came perrty natural.

  What I'm saying is let them deside when and where for them and not you.

crooketarrow:
 To me there's nothing worse than a hunting show with a kid so little he can't hold the rifle up. And he shoots a 5 1/2 ear old 10 point. He's shooting the buck of you not for him. Almost like you made him do it.

bowandarrow473:
My dad told stories of how he hunted when he was my age, I had always been an outdoor kid and had been Interested in archery since I could tie a string to a stick, so hunting was a natural step to make. My dad never tried to force me to hunt, I just loved being outside and one day I told him I wanted to go hunting, he got the guns out of storage and took me out hunting, and I immediately loved it. I see it the same way with archery form, maybe give him a few pointers so he dosent smack his wrist but I would let him enjoy shooting and being outside. Try to show him that bows are awesome and that so is nature, but if he someday decides he dosent like it anymore then his interests are his interests.

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