![]() She owns the shop with her husband, John Larsen. One of the walls was covered in a zebra hide, next to a photo of Sharon Larsen, who killed the animal in Zimbabwe with a bow and arrow. A stuffed mountain lion crouched on a high shelf. I don’t come from a hunting family, so as we walked into Bwana Archery, the first thing I noticed was the camo decor and the deer heads on the walls. It’s very easy to pick up, but then it’s about repeating that same motion again and again.” “I can get you shooting bull’s-eyes in the first lesson,” said Jack Wachlarowicz, a special-education high school teacher who runs the archery club in White Bear Lake Area Schools. Holes in the ceiling aside, it turns out it’s pretty easy to hit a target. Part of the popularity is due to its accessibility. Meanwhile, bow-hunting licenses for teenagers increased 50 percent in the past decade to 8,500 licenses last year, and manufacturers are expanding their models of lighter and smaller youth bows. Hundreds of kids showed up with their school teams for a state tournament this spring. Last year, more than 100,000 students tried the sport as part of a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources program that incorporates archery into school physical education classes. Interest in archery seems to be picking up among young people. After checking into classes offered at local parks and failing to find a class that fit our schedule, we ended up at an indoor range at an archery shop. My 8-year-old son had returned from a day camp enamored with shooting arrows and wanted to try it again. Would my kids be able to hit the targets, or should I duck for cover? I noticed right away the ceiling tiles of the indoor archery range were pockmarked with holes.
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