I hope this is the right place to post these.
A buddy and I set up an informal atlatl and archery shoot at a little event in a town called Scotland, Connecticut. It was held on the grounds of the Waldo Farmstead, an early 18th century colonial farm.
We kept is simple, a few bales of hay, had two of my primitive bows and some arrows, and mostly focused on the atlatl. Way more kids showed up than we had expected, of course.
It was nonstop from beginning to end. We kept it safe, and had some 18th century reenactors help us out, which was much appreciated. I'm guessiing there were close to a thousand spears tossed that day. And, I found out that a lot of the kids were really psyched about the atlalt, as it had been featured on that TV show The Deadliest Warrior.
I wish now I had made some kid sized bows and brought a bunch more arrows, but they seemed to adapt okay to the Sarnate bow and a new maple Tybrind Vig replica I had made, a Mesolithic flat bow. Actually, it was not quite tillered the way I wanted it, but was pretty light, and held up to the abuse the kids heaped on it. We only lost 3 darts between the two of us, as well.
Kids really do love archery and the atlatl. It was really gratifying to do this event.
Dane
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