Traditional Muzzleloading Association
Shooting Traditional Firearms and Weapons => General Interest => Topic started by: dave951 on June 26, 2021, 10:42:41 AM
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Well we're back at it since the Covid thing seems to be dying down. We worked with 29 kids last week and will likely see more next week. First place we worked was Camp Bud Schiele and later Camp Raven Knob, both in NC. A couple of pix.
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way cool :hairy
kevin
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Good to see things like that happening. :yessir:
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Good to see things like that happening. :yessir:
You bet! :hairy
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Well this was conceived to be a volunteer type of effort with the intentions of spreading through youth shooting sports in general. A huge hurdle in getting kids to a range for whatever shooting sport is qualified instructors who are willing to work with the kids and obtaining support for them. I have no qualms in asking for support for what we're doing as a rising tide floats all boats. If Scouting policy allowed for flints, we'd be doing them too. So for the time being and in the interest of getting as much shooting in as possible, we're using percussion guns and mostly Civil War muskets and minies. A couple more pix from this week.
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Hopefully the bug will bite a couple of them. Again, you fellas are doing great work. :toast
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In each of our sessions, we have the kids shoot PRB first to learn how to shoot PRB guns. We then move to minies and focus on safety and marksmanship. Even though many of the kids already have the Shooting Merit Badge, in almost every case, it didn't involve any work on actual marksmanship. The other part of this that doesn't show in pictures is the opportunity to interact with the kids during lunch break to talk about the guns, history and other subjects that affect marksmanship like physics. Whether they realize it or not, they're still learning while munching on a sandwich and finding out what recoil really is and how physics describes it mathematically. They find out how things evolved through history from the PRB to the minie to currently used FMJ. The learning is kept fun and never stops the entire time we're onsite.