im kinda doing the same thing over here... i coach a teen youth group type paintball / extrem sports team here in north texas that call themselves the DirtyDawgz... the team started as a moutin bike race team and paintball team that me and my kid niephew started up with two of his cousins and then they went off recruiting other teen friends of theres that might have been getting into trouble and having trouble with school... since then i have devoloped the team to a youth group type team with a few other people helping out and a church giving us a hand here and there...
anyways we do all kinds of stuff and the kids parents really support the cause, because since we started a couple of yrs ago i had a few of the boys that had gotting kicked out of school for all kinds of stuff and they got put into alternative schools... well needles to say i devoloped the team into a extrem sports team and run it like a bootcamp style practice... being from a military background ( 8yrs Unitd States Marine Corps) we turned those kids around and now they are completly better all around kids... making A and B's and drug free... but its alot of work and these kids come from tuff neiborhods and they arent the type of kids that would be invovled in a church group or scouts...
but i come from the same nieborhood and soo i can relate too there problems and i keep it interesting by keeping it hard and the sports we do are challanging and theyhave to be tuff to be a Dawg... and i incorporate the values of the Marine Corps into there training like Honor, Courage Commitment,integrety and disipline... and i through in a little scripture here and there and i have issued them all bibles and told them to read it!
but im not a pasture or father or counsler or anything like that... but i do as much as i can...
and the boys have taking an intrerest to archery... well, we are allways in the woods hiking and or mountin biking and some of the boys asked me if i could train or teach them survival classes and nateraly the subject of achery and or hunting came up and i told them that they would get some training later... of coarse i have some training in the art of survival but i used to make stick bows when i was a kid just for fun...
anyways i'm here trying to learn how to make a good strong bow for hunting for myself and my older cousins that are my age.. and i thought that this would also be a good project for the youth team... of coarse the bows im trying to make now are gonna be differant than the bows im gonna teach the boys to make...
for the boys im gonna teach them to make a survival type bow out of stave or branch and arrows from natural material... stone points or bone ... hell they could even use just heated wood tips for that purpose... more on the primitave side... i have never kapped stone so its gonna be a journey for me as well.. but i have burned and scrapped arrows to a sharp hard point when i was younger... works well for hunitng rabbit and squirl...
anyways sorry i wrote a book here but i commend you for your efforts with those two brothers..
its a good thing that you are helping them out... and voluntier your time for them... i know they appreciate it... i know my boys do...
Good Luck...
