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I used to hunt pheasants and geese with a bow and blunt tipped arrows, but this kids amazing.....
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ST. JOHN - A central Kansas man hopes to work his way to his dream job, one arrow at a time. "I'm trying to get good enough to be an exhibition shooter, that's my goal," Heath Getty said after shooting fast-flying clay targets with his bow and arrows Wednesday evening.
Getty, 24, started bow-shooting the thin targets about a year ago. His personal best is seven in a row.
It's not his first adventure in shooting.
"We're all really into hunting and shooting, the whole family," said his mother, Diane. "I can't tell you how many bands I had to buy for slingshots and how many BB guns he wore out when he was little. He's always spent a lot of time getting good at it."
From slingshot and air gun, Getty progressed to a .22 rifle before he was 10. When stationary targets became too easy, he began tossing progressively smaller targets into the air.
His personal best with the rifle is shooting Tic Tac-size empty .22 cartridges. Wednesday, he routinely hit a tossed golf ball. He shot a quarter out of the air twice.
"I used to be a lot better, but I haven't shot a rifle much the past couple of years," he said.
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Getty, 24, started bow-shooting the thin targets about a year ago. His personal best is seven in a row.
It's not his first adventure in shooting.
"We're all really into hunting and shooting, the whole family," said his mother, Diane. "I can't tell you how many bands I had to buy for slingshots and how many BB guns he wore out when he was little. He's always spent a lot of time getting good at it."
From slingshot and air gun, Getty progressed to a .22 rifle before he was 10. When stationary targets became too easy, he began tossing progressively smaller targets into the air.
His personal best with the rifle is shooting Tic Tac-size empty .22 cartridges. Wednesday, he routinely hit a tossed golf ball. He shot a quarter out of the air twice.
"I used to be a lot better, but I haven't shot a rifle much the past couple of years," he said.
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