Andrew Weaver and Todd Kapsner are two of the leaders of the Stillwater Archery Club. They take all members of the club to a designated area where they are able to hunt animals with bows and arrows. Once a person kills an animal, Weaver and Kapsner will help them take it to a place where the meat will be removed from the animal to be eaten.

There used to be a Target Archery Club at the high school, and the school had some bows and arrows used for educational purposes in physical education. Then they received grants to start up the club and they now have land where they can hunt on and use hunting equipment such as ladder stands.

Once Weaver and Kapsner got grants to start this club, things started to work out in their favor.

Weaver, co-founder of the club explained, “Adults wanted to mentor kids and teach them how to use a bow and arrow.”

Archery Club in Stillwater is locally advertised so members are most likely in the club with classmates.

Junior Lizzie Finney said, “I don’t have any experience with archery, but I feel like people who have experience with archery would enjoy the club since they get to practice and do something they love with people they go to school with.”

The program allows the kids to hunt from ladder stands, which are stands up in the branches of the trees. They are used so the animals won’t see people on the ground and people can have a better view of the animals.

Ladder stands are also very dangerous. Junior Mallary Heintz said, “The adults should teach the kids the proper way to use a ladder stand because someone I know got badly injured by falling off one.”

Weaver’s archery club is a great way for people to get started hunting and is a way for people to become informed about hunting and the weapons used.