At camp Arnes there is archery, this
is what we learned about the bow and arrow.
These are the bow parts; arrow rest, riser, limb, knock point and bow string.
These are arrow parts; field point, shaft, knock, rooster feather and a fletching.
These are the materials to make a bow; carbon, fiberglass, wood and aluminum.
When shooting an arrow, you need three fingers on the bow. For aiming, you use your strong eye. To figure out your strong eye, you make a triangle with your hands and keep your arms straight out then focus on an object and close one eye to see if you can see the entire object if not then try your other eye. The eye that you can see the full object is your dominant eye. When you draw back the bow string, you don’t want to lock your elbow, you want a slight bend in your arm. Once this is all done you can shoot the arrow.
The instructor brought out foam animals and targets to shoot at. Not all of us found this easy to do. If our arrows went past the target then it would hit a net that hung behind them. We had to wait for everyone to shoot their last arrow and when the instructor put down the rope we could all go get our arrows.
We had a very fun time with archery!
By: Hope, Rylan and mac
