Well I tried

[Eugene Slagle]

Shooting with my 9 year old in the basement last week, since Erin hasn't been shooting in some time she was making some mistakes & I was commenting on them when my wife said "you know, I still think she'll shoot more & much better if she was shooting a compound like I do."

Well in a way I thought Becky may have something so I talked to a friend that did by chance have a Stacey Tom Thumb LH that he could set up for her to try.

Something in me kept hoping that Erin would stick with the Recurve & not just for my selfish reasons but my hopes for her in the future but I was open to the possibility that mommy may be right.

Handed her the bow & one of her arrows, she drew it back & WOW the let off was a serious suprise to her & after the shot she said "I don't like that."
Well to be sure I had her try it again & when she got it back to full draw she said right away "I don't like that part."

God has blessed me with many things & this is one of them & even though this sounds selfish but in the end I personally think that if she can shoot a Recurve even if it has a sight on it like a Olympic shooter, she has a better chance of understanding the mechanics of archery & if she does get serious & proficient with it she may have the chance at bigger things than what I had growing up.

[Night Wing]

I've seen many 9 year old and up children shoot both a trad bow and a compound bow and the majority of times, the children choose the compound bow.

You're lucky your daughter likes a trad bow.

[Eugene Slagle]

I just need to get her shooting more but with Girl Scouts, Soccer, Almost There Girls, & on Sunday Higher Power it's hard.

[maineac]

Nice, keep at it.  It is a lifetime sport.  If it instills now she will like stay with it or pick it up again late in life.

[Recurve50 LBS]

My son refuses to shoot compound bows. When he was going to take his hunter Ed test he said that he would only shoot a trad bow for the shooting part of the test even after I offered to buy him a compound. Makes a parent proud!

[canopyboy]

Heck, my 12 year old got back out there recently with the longbow BECAUSE of the Girl Scouts.  With her troop going to go shooting, she wanted to practice up so she'd look like she knew what she was doing....

[Eugene Slagle]

Canopyboy;
I like that, being that I'm a certified Advanced instructor I will be teaching a lot of Girls Scouts & Boy Scouts but with Erin & soon my 4 year old Katherine I've got a tugging on my heart when I see em wanting to shoot.

Erin is a very competitive girl so I'm sure that she'll feel the same way when the time comes.