Life at an animal camp is always an adventure! But for those who want to step it up a bit, Cub Creek offers several specific adventure courses and classes that are aimed to please. These activities are some of camp's most popular activities with full classes! They are offered multiple times a day and multiple times a week. Our Adventure activities offer a variety from our mostly animal and science based activities, but science is applied in all of them! Our Archery and Riflery courses give campers the skills they need to comfortably and safely navigate these two weapons.
Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow. Campers taking the week-long course will learn the difference between precision and accuracy as they aim to become a skilled shooter.
This course is offered to both junior and senior campers.
Campers will learn the basics of archery. They will be able to identify what the parts of the bows and arrows are called and how to use the range safely.
Campers will continue to practice their archery skills, discover their dominant eye, and learn proper aiming methods.
Campers will practice shooting skills using balloons while learning the importance of precision and accuracy.
Campers will continue to practice their archery skills while playing some engaging games.
Campers will demonstrate the best of their archery skills they've learned this week.
Riflery is an old camping tradition that we would like to keep going here at our camp. Riflery focuses on safely teaching campers the skills of marksmanship and responsibility. Campers shoot .22 caliber rifles from the comfort and safety of our covered riflery range. It is critical to us that safety is taken seriously. So this course has two instructors to watch the class at all times, the class is limited to a certain number of campers, and all campers are required to follow strict commands.
Because this course takes extra care and safety, riflery is only offered to senior campers and is only offered as a course.
The entire first day of the course is dedicated to safety. Campers will meet with the instructors at our range to go over commands, ear and eye protection, and handling rifles.
After the first day, campers will practice their marksmanship. With a target downrange, they will practice bettering their accuracy and score. Like archery, the goal of riflery is gaining skills and noticing your strengths. Riflery takes patience and a positive attitude!
Campers learn the importance of taking care of their rifle while in the class. This involves handling when both shooting and not, loading properly, and cleaning. Each camper is assigned a rifle during the week so that they take special care of it.
Take aim and launch projectiles to hit fun targets!
Build tall structures, then test catapults to knock them down in a fun, free-for-all battle.