I miss my target sometimes
A likely story.
Youngest wants to go bow hunting and because he's a gung ho teenager it is extremely difficult to convince him that he needs way more recent practice with the actual bow (he thinks the handful of archery classes he did half his lifetime ago and the VR games is enough). Think whenever they get around to going up to the farm J is going to make him be able to shoot cans reliably before they anything.
Bow hunting is still legal in WA (on private land) but is now illegal in SA, as of Dec 2024. So, if your lad wants to go the best time would be now and before they ban it there, which I assume they will eventually. However, I'd hardly want an inexperienced bow hunter shooting arrows at animals...bow hunting is not just about drawing and releasing bows. To be done humanely it takes some understanding. If it goes wrong, (depending what sort of kid he is) he'll never get that image out of his head.
He's grown up watching and helping kill the chickens and fish (when our aquaponics was running) so he's okay with causing other animals to die and understands it has to be done as quickly and painlessly as possible. He also just very firmly believes that he's the only one that accurately estimates his skill levels in anything (he's very happy to tell me and his siblings that we're grossly overestimating ours especially if we're telling him things that he doesn't want to hear) til he gets a reality check (which obviously in this case I want done centuries before anything animate is getting shot at).
He'll be good to go then by the sounds of it, I'm interested to hear about how it goes. Is he practicing stalking? Getting close enough to take a shot is the largest part of bow hunting.
J has been desperately trying to get him to practise stalking (the challenge was get close enough to something to take a relatively closeup photo, so ideally using his GoPro as that can't zoom easily) but he doesn't want to and just wants to get into the thick of it due to aforementioned problem of grossly overestimating his abilities but thinking his assessments are accurate so that's another ongoing battle (but at least the ongoing battles with him are much fewer than they were when he was younger).
Hmm, well there's no need to wish him good luck with now hunting then because he'll never get close enough to make a shot.
LoL yep. I don't know if it's his brand of adhd/autism or him in general but he just can't be told some things. We only really put our foot down hard on certain things and where it's relatively safe to do so we just let him learn the hard way.
Well, at least he'll get a nice walk around the wilderness, that's always fun.