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Archive: July 2024

18-Year-Old Lilli Holt Will Be Happy to Teach You Fly Fishing

Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Angling

At age 18, having just graduated high school and with an eye on medical school, Lilli Holt finds that fly fishing is an important component in achieving her life goals.

“Fly fishing has changed my life in helping me know how to overcome problems,” said the Wyoming native. “It’s improved my mental focus. It’s a relaxing thing that helps me focus, learn new skills. Learning fly fishing was difficult and challenging, and sometimes it would get frustrating, but it taught me help over coming challenges in life, to relax and when overcoming the big things.”

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Trulock Makes Affordable Bespoke Chokes for Collegiate Competitors

Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotguns

The four lanes of U.S. Route 84 cut through rural South Georgia. You’ll pass churches, body shops, gas stations, convenience stores, tired farm houses, old double-wides, acres of agriculture, Dollar General, skirt the downtown Cairo (home of the Syrupmakers high-school football team), before reaching Broad Avenue and the town limits of Whigham – population 428 as of the 2020 census. Having driven through the town several times over the years on my way to someplace else, and with Whigham’s total area of 1.2 miles overshadowed by a few blocks of derelict storefronts, you’d think it would be pretty easy to find a business that is still in operation.

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Archery Becomes a Lifelong Winning Passion for 16-Year-Old Grady Kane

Monday, July 08, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Bows

Sometimes, we never know what’s going to grab us for the rest of our lives until we get a little nudge in the right direction.

For Grady Kane, that nudge from being an archery spectator to a committed, trophy-winning athlete came from his grandfather.

“I was wanted to shoot a bow from watching bow hunting on TV,” Grady recalled. “Then my grandfather showed me videos on USA Archery of a pro shooting, and it looked like it was fun and cool. That got me involved in target archery.” 

As is often the case of youth participation in the hunting and shooting sports, an organization helps participants find their own path to success. With Grady, Explore Archery, which is operated by USA Archery, supplied the necessary resources.

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