Shooting Sports

 

The first shooting sport that I picked up was Archery.  I started in a Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) program.  Here I learned the basics of safety and skills of the bow and arrow.  I prefer traditional archery with longbows and recurves.  Personally I like shooting without sights and aids because it requires greater intuition and skill.  It also keeps archery from being too similar to shooting guns.

 

Later I learned to handle guns, shooting both rifles and shotguns.  I learned on a bolt action rifle but then discovered pump action rifles in the form of a Winchester model 1890.  I really like the unique action normally found on a shotgun, not a rifle.  With rifles I mainly practice marksmanship on competition targets and with clay pigeons for shotguns.