The Future May Be Brighter Than We Think

[Stan Hillis]

The 4H shooting program is full bore in GA. I helped sponsor a team of young men who went to Kansas, as I recall, a few years back and won first place in the national sporting clays competition. They have now moved on to shoot in college, at GA Southern college, and nearly beat us in a shootout a couple years back for first place at a charity shoot at our local sporting clays range. There was a team shootout and I think our team beat theirs by just a bird or two. They're tough, I'm telling you.

I'm thrilled to see it.

[Jerry VanHorn]

In Arkansas there are many High School Teams. Here, in Highland, the team places in the top 3 most years. The community and the local gun shops support them...

[Larry the Gun Guy]

I think Destry is right, this is the answer to the future of our passion. Getting involved, by people like us who have the knowledge and background, will be key to keeping the shooting sports alive. And maybe getting involved is donating money to support these young folks and a little time to help out with some of the shoots. There's way more good in the world than the 5% of whiners that are on the 5:00 news every night, but it takes getting involved to have the 95% show up. This is an article from some of the shooting games in Minnesota, another place that according to the news is gone to the creeps, but it's not so. This is really good stuff. Here's a quote and an article about their shooting success and safety.

https://time.com/longform/high-school-shooting-teams/


As for safety: more than 70,000 students have fired 42 million shots since 2008. No one has reported a single injury, according to the league. At Spring Lake Park, coach Hanselman tells students to consume no sugar within an hour before a shoot, lest hyperactive teens grow even more jittery on the firing line. At every school in the league, students are required to earn a firearm–safety certificate to participate on the team. “We always enforce that every time you pull that trigger,” says Josh Kern, -assistant coach for Badger-Greenbush