Youth Shooting Sports

[Bruce Day]

I see comments here about how can we encourage youth shooting sports. Well, here is one way. All BSA camps have rifle and shotgun ranges and teach boys and older girls how to shoot .

Here is one of ours, we have two camps in our council, one serves about 6000 youth each summer, the other about 1000. Both have a pair of target throwers and we use Rem 870 shotguns. We go through about 300 cases of 20ga at one camp, about 100 at the other. One of my volunteer jobs is to grease and adjust the clay target machines ( ProMatic) , move ammo and make sure the ranges are ready, and then help out instructing shot gunning.

Chances are that your local council could use you also, you might find it rewarding.

Here is our covered range, stacks of ammo, and our worn but serviceable throwers.