What kind of bow to start a kid on?

[steadyeddie]

I have mixed opinions here. I actually started my kids with martins about 20 yrs. ago. They were great bows and they could change the draw length until they outgrew the bows. They then got an adult bow. One son I learned had mixed dominance, right handed and left eyed. So starting him young he was able to adapt and shoot left handed. I since then have started young kids on a recurve and shooting instinctive and they got where they could hit the targets and then if they wanted to go to a compound instinctive or with sights they were able to shoot effectively. I would even loan several of my compounds with or without sights, and they learned fingers with their earlier training, and some still shoot fingers, but most have releases. Some still got back and forth with recurve and comlpound, fingers and release, sights and not sights. Lets here other opinions.

[BT]

I like the Browning Micro Adrenaline.

I have purchased a number of these and the micro midas bows for young archers over the years and they are tops in price for value IMO.
Also like the upgrade the Browning offers with the Micro series which allows you to start with a 30-40# and when you are ready you can upgrade to a 40-50# for $50. more

[smj]

You know, I started my kids on recurves and longbows. They thought that these were OK for a couple of times out, then they wanted to hit something. I mean, we could shoot up close and they would hit OK, but they wanted to shoot farther back and wanted to hit stuff! I switched them to compounds with sights, they seemed to feel much better about this type of rig as it was much easier for them to hit what they were shooting at - at greater distance (which seemed to be important to them.)