Howdy ya'll:
My wife and 5-yr old son were the lucky winners of the Mother's Day Give A Way. A special thanks to Vermonster for setting this up! Yesterday the package was delivered and I waited until Grant, my 5yr old son, was home to open it up. It really felt like Ol' St. Nick had visited the house.
Well, we received a Mad Dog Pup made by Dennis at Git-R-Done Archery, a Ragim Victory Recurve, a very nice back quiver for Grant, arrows, a tab, and little glove. I guess all the hours Grant had spent watching me must have helped because teaching him was much easy than I had expected. To all the dads out there, it's not that hard and my boy just turned 5 in April and he can pull the Mad Dog Pup (12@20) to full draw and he loves it - So don't wait it is really a blast.
Grant and Anne, my beautiful wife, took to trad archery like fish to water. I know that having quality matched equipment really helped as well. These two were wearing out my Glen Del Buck insert. My wife shot a wheelie bow before Grant was born and she was eager to give this trad thing, as she calls it, a go. She loves it! My 14yr old son now shoots my wife's old wheelie bow but he wanted to shoot the recurve and now I cannot get him in from shooting. Thank you so much. I'll keep you posted on their progress.
Grant and Anne sporting the new equipment
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Gig'em
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Learning to nock an arrow
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First Draw
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After some practice
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Me and Grant after a nice shot
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Anne after some practice
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My 14yr old son TD
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troy , very cool...congrats , marco#78 :wavey: :thumbsup:
You look pretty happy and for good reason! :thumbsup:
:clapper: A family that shoots together, has fun together. That is great.
Great to see the whole family out there Troy.
The fellow who makes the Maddog bows though is Mike Mecredy who is a sponsor here. That particular one was purchased from Git-R-Done though who is another sponsor and donated the glove. Onestringer wraps donated the tab. The arrows were built by a fellow Trad Ganger.
My son asked if he could sleep with his bow and arrows last night. He must have alot of my genes. :D :D
That's what it's all about right there! great job...
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Very cool! :thumbsup:
Excellent :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
Thats great and all, but I guess I will be the worry wart. A back stop? A glance off the back and parts of the fence and the arrows go who knows where? :eek:
Hey Troy which son? :biglaugh: Just kidding I know Grant is the one asking. Thats terrific man and that looks like the same old back yard we sometimes used to shoot in 20 years ago. Hope to see yall soon.
I started a knife and I have those mesquite blocks if you need them. Let me know.
Shawn
God, wife, kids, bows- man, you ARE blessed!
Great pics.
way kool man.... Wish my wife would get in to traditional archery... she has a wheelie bow, but doesn't shoot it anymore....
You'll all have a blast! Head to one of the weekend shoots with the truck full of bows, arrows and camping equipment.....LIFE IS GOOD!
awesome congrats!