I’ve been reporting on the Youth Hunts at The Oaks Hunting Club in Boligee for several years now, and this year produced another of those days when a person decides that doing something for someone less fortunate is what needs to be done. The eighth-annual youth hunt at our club was exactly what we all needed—the volunteers and the kids. This day proved once again that the adults get as much or more out of a day like this than the kids do.
This year, 11 young hunters from John Croyle’s Big Oak Ranch arrived at 8 a.m. for a full day of outdoor activities. There should have been 13 young hunters, but a couple of boys had a little problem with their school work.
After a brief welcome and a safety class, we moved to the shooting range. There were lessons and firearms practice with .22 rifles, and the kids shot clays with 20-gauge shotguns. The...
Kids who love fishing are getting a chance to improve lake habitat and the quality of fishing through a new conservation program started by the Alabama Bass Trail (ABT).
The ABT joined...
If you want to find a spot for a kid on a good dove field but don’t want to spend a fortune doing it, check out the free youth dove shoots offered by Alabama’s Wildlife and Freshwater...
Copperhead’s Outdoors in Arab has come up with an interesting twist to bowfishing tournaments—mandatory participation by kids. Copperhead’s held its first Young Arrow Slingers...
Alabama’s coastal counties are producing some mighty fine young archers.
At the Archery in the Schools National Championship the weekend of May 12 in Louisville, Ky., Foley...
