Sunday, April 15, 2012

Wilderness Survival

From the BSA Manual

Wilderness Survival requirements

  1. Show that you know first aid for, and how to prevent injuries or illnesses that could occur in backcountry settings, including hypothermia, heat reactions, frostbite, dehydration, blisters, insect stings, tick bites, and snakebites.
  2. From memory, list the seven priorities for survival in a backcountry or wilderness location. Explain the importance of each one with your councelor.
  3. Discuss ways to avoid panic and maintain a high level of morale when lost, and explain why this is important.
  4. Describe the steps you would take to survive in the following conditions:
    a. Cold and snowy
    b. Wet (forest)
    c. Hot and dry (desert)
    d. Windy (mountains or plains)
    e. Water (ocean, lake, or river)
  5. Put together a personal survival kit and explain how each item in it could be useful
  6. Using three different methods (other than matches), build and light three fires.
  7. Do the following:
    a. Show five different ways to attract attention when lost.
    b. Demonstrate how to use a signal mirror.
    c. Describe from memory five ground-to-air signals and tell what they mean.
  8. Improvise a natural shelter. For the purpose of this demonstration, use techniques that have little negative impact on the environment. Spend a night in your shelter.
  9. Explain how to protect yourself from insects, reptiles, and bears.
  10. Demonstrate three ways to treat water found in the outdoors to prepare it for drinking.
  11. Show that you know the proper clothing to wear in your area on an overnight in extremely hot weather and in extremely cold weather.
  12. Explain why it usually not wise to eat edible wild plants or wildlife in a wilderness survival situation.

Badge found here


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Fly fishing

From the BSA Manual

Fly Fishing requirements

  1. Explain to your counselor the injuries that could occur while fly-fishing and the proper treatment, including cuts, scratches, puncture wounds, insect bites, hypothermia, and heat reactions. Explain how to remove a hook that has lodged in your arm. Name and explain five safety practices you should always follow while fly-fishing.
  2. Discuss how to match a fly rod, line and leader to get a balanced system. Discuss several types of fly lines, and explain how and when each would be used. Review with your counselor how to care for this equipment.
  3. Demonstrate how to tie proper knots to prepare a fly rod for fishing:
    a. Tie a backing to a fly reel spool using the arbor backing knot
    b. Attach backing to fly line using the nail knot
    c. Attach a leader to fly line using the needle knot, nail knot or loop-to-loop connection
    d. Add tippet to a leader using a double surgeon’s loop or blood knot
    e. Tie a fly onto the terminal end of the leader using the improved clinch knot
  4. Explain how each of the following types of flies are used: dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, streamers, bass bugs, and poppers. What does each imitate? Tie at least two types of the flies mentioned in this requirement.
  5. Demonstrate the ability to cast a fly consistently and accurately using overhead and roll cast techniques.
  6. Go to a suitable fishing location and make observations on the types of insects fish may be eating. Look for flying insects and some that may be on or beneath the water’s surface. Look under rocks. Explain the importance of matching the hatch.
  7. Explain the importance of practicing Leave No Trace and how it positively affects fly-fishing resources.
  8. Obtain a copy of the regulations affecting game fishing where you live. Explain why they were adopted and what you accomplish by following them.
  9. Explain what good outdoor sportsmanlike behavior is and how it relates to fishermen. Tell how the Outdoor Code of the Boy Scouts of America relates to a fishing enthusiast, including the aspects of littering, trespassing, courteous behavior, and obeying fishing regulations.
  10. Using the fly-fishing techniques you have learned, catch two different kinds of fish and identify them. Release at least one of them unharmed. Clean and cook another fish.

Badge found here.
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Fishing

From the BSA Manual

Fishing requirements

1. Do the following:

a. Discuss the prevention of and treatment for the following health concerns that could occur while fishing, including cuts, scratches, puncture wounds, insect bites, hypothermia, dehydration, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, and sunburn.
b. Explain how to remove a hook that has lodged in your arm.
c. Name and explain five safety practices you should always follow while fishing.

2. Discuss the differences between two types of fishing outfits. Point out and identify the parts of several types of rods and reels. Explain how and when each would be used. Review with your counselor how to care for this equipment.

3. Demonstrate the proper use of two different types of fishing equipment.

4. Demonstrate how to tie the following knots: clinch, Palomar, turle, blood loop (barrel knot), and double surgeon's loop. Explain how and when each knot is used.

5. Name and identify five basic artificial lures and five natural baits and explain how to fish with them. Explain why bait fish are not to be released.

6. Do the following:

a. Explain the importance of practicing Leave No Trace techniques. Discuss the positive effects of Leave No Trace on fishing resources.
b. Discuss the meaning and importance of catch and release. Describe how to properly release a fish safely to the water.

7. Obtain and review a copy of the regulations affecting game fishing where you live. Explain why they were adopted and what you accomplish by following them.

8. Explain what good outdoor sportsmanlike behavior is and how it relates to anglers. Tell how the Outdoor Code of the Boy Scouts of America relates to a fishing sports enthusiast, including the aspects of littering, trespassing, courteous behavior, and obeying fishing regulations.

9. Catch at least one fish. If regulations and health concerns permit, clean and cook a fish you have caught. Otherwise, acquire a fish and cook it.


Badge found here.

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Woodworking

From the BSA Manual

Woodwork requirements

  1. Do the following:
    a. Show that you know first aid for injuries that could occur while woodworking, including splinters, scratches, cuts, severe bleeding, and shock. Tell what precautions must be taken to help prevent loss of eyesight or hearing, and explain why and when it is necessary to use a dust mask.
    b. Earn the Totin' Chip recognition.
    c. Tell your counselor what precautions you take to safely use your tools.
  2. Do the following:
    a. Describe how timber is grown, harvested, and milled. Tell how lumber is cured, seasoned, graded, and sized.
    b. Collect and label blocks of six kinds of wood useful in woodworking. Describe the chief qualities of each. Give the best uses of each.
  3. Do the following:
    a. Show proper care, use, and storage of all working tools and equipment that you own or use at home or school.
    b. Sharpen correctly the cutting edges of two different tools.
  4. Using a saw, plane, hammer, brace, and bit, make something useful of wood. Cut parts from lumber that you have squared and measured from working drawings.
  5. Create your own carpentry project. List the materials you will need to complete your project, and then build your project. Keep track of the time you spend and the cost of the materials.
  6. Do any TWO of the following:
    a. Make working drawings of a project needing - (1) Beveled or rounded edges OR curved or incised cuttings, OR (2) Miter, dowel, or mortise and tenon joints. Build this project.
    b. Make something for which you have to turn duplicate parts on a lathe.
    c. Make a cabinet, box or something else with a door or lid fastened with inset hinges.
    d. Help make and repair wooden toys for underprivileged children; OR help carry out a carpentry service project approved by your counselor for a charitable organization.
  7. Talk with a cabinetmaker or carpenter. Find out about the training, apprenticeship, Career opportunities, work conditions, pay rates, and union organization for woodworking experts in your area.

Badge found here.
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Knitting

Taken from The Knitting Guild course catalog

LEARN TO KNIT

One Lesson. Learn to Knit written materials are designed for
individual self-study. Furnish your own knitting supplies. Learn
basic techniques and terms related to knitting. Option to send
swatches for critique by the TKGA Learn to Knit Committee.
You’re responsible for postage to the Committee. No time limit
– as long as course is still being offered. (Limited to English only.)

Lesson Outline:
• Knitting Tools and Common Abbreviations
• Casting On and Holding the Yarn
• English/American Style and German/Continental Style
• Knit Stitch, Purl Stitch, Stockinette Stitch, Seed Stitch,
Ribbing, Twisted Stitches, and Correcting Dropped Stitches
• Increases (Bar Increase, Make One (M1), Lifted Increase)
• Decreases (Knit Two Together (k2tog); Slip, Slip, Knit (ssk);
Slip One, Knit One, Pass Slipped Stitch Over (sl 1, k1, psso);
Yarn Over (yo)
• Gauge
• Useful Tips (Joining a New Ball of Yarn, Yarn Tails, Blocking)
• Instructions for Making Swatches for Committee Review.

Complete Learn To Knit course and have all swatches approved by the committee.
Complete one adult sized sweater.
Complete one lace shawl.

Badge found here.
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Camping



From the BSA Manual.

Camping requirements

  1. Show that you know first aid for and how to prevent injuries or illnesses that could occur while camping, including hypothermia, frostbite, heat reactions, dehydration, altitude sickness, insect stings, tick bites, snakebite, blisters, and hyperventilation.
  2. Learn the Leave No Trace principles and the Outdoor Code and explain what they mean. Write a personal plan for implementing these principles on your next outing..
  3. Make a written plan for an overnight trek and show how to get to your camping spot using a topographical map and compass OR a topographical map and a GPS receiver.
  4. Do the following:
    a. Make a duty roster showing how your patrol is organized for an actual overnight campout. List assignments for each member.
    b. Help a Scout patrol or a Webelos Scout unit in your area prepare for an actual campout, including creating the duty roster, menu planning, equipment needs, general planning, and setting up camp.
  5. Do the following:
    a. Prepare a list of clothing you would need for overnight campouts in both warm and cold weather. Explain the term "layering."
    b. Discuss footwear for different kinds of weather and how the right footwear is important for protecting your feet.
    c. Explain the proper care and storage of camping equipment (clothing, footwear, bedding).
    d. List the outdoor essentials necessary for any campout, and explain why each item is needed.
    e. Present yourself to your Scoutmaster with your pack for inspection. Be correctly clothed and equipped for an overnight campout.
  6. Do the following:
    a. Describe the features of four types of tents, when and where they could be used, and how to care for tents. Working with another Scout, pitch a tent.
    b. Discuss the importance of camp sanitation and tell why water treatment is essential. Then demonstrate two ways to treat water.
    c. Describe the factors to be considered in deciding where to pitch your tent.
    d. Tell the difference between internal- and external-frame packs. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each.
    e. Discuss the types of sleeping bags and what kind would be suitable for different conditions. Explain the proper care of your sleeping bag and how to keep it dry. Make a comfortable ground bed.
  7. Prepare for an overnight campout with your patrol by doing the following:
    a. Make a checklist of personal and patrol gear that will be needed.
    b. Pack your own gear and your share of the patrol equipment and food for proper carrying. Show that your pack is right for quickly getting what is needed first, and that it has been assembled properly for comfort, weight, balance, size, and neatness.
  8. Do the following:
    a. Explain the safety procedures for:
    1. Using a propane or butane/propane stove
    2. Using a liquid fuel stove
    3. Proper storage of extra fuel
    b. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different types of lightweight cooking stoves.
    c. Prepare a camp menu. Explain how the menu would differ from a menu for a backpacking or float trip. Give recipes and make a food list for your patrol. Plan two breakfasts, three lunches, and two suppers. Discuss how to protect your food against bad weather, animals, and contamination.
    d. Cook at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner for your patrol from the meals you have planned for requirement 8c. At least one of those meals must be a trail meal requiring the use of a lightweight stove.
  9. Show experience in camping by doing the following:
    a. Camp a total of at least 20 days and 20 nights. Sleep each night under the sky or in a tent you have pitched. The 20 days and 20 nights must be at a designated Scouting activity or event. You may use a week of long-term camp toward this requirement. If the camp provides a tent that has already been pitched, you need not pitch your own tent.
    b. On any of these camping experiences, you must do TWO of the following, only with proper preparation and under qualified supervision:
    1. Hike up a mountain, gaining at least 1,000 vertical feet.
    2. Backpack, snowshoe, or cross-country ski for at least 4 miles.
    3. Take a bike trip of at least 15 miles or at least four hours.
    4. Take a nonmotorized trip on the water of at least four hours or 5 miles.
    5. Plan and carry out an overnight snow camping experience.
    6. Rappel down a rappel route of 30 feet or more.
    c. Perform a conservation project approved by the landowner or land managing agency.
  10. Discuss how the things you did to earn this badge have taught you about personal health and safety, survival, public health, conservation, and good citizenship. In your discussion, tell how Scout spirit and the Scout Oath and Law apply to camping and outdoor ethics.

Badge found here
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Backpacking

From the BSA Manual.

Backpacking requirements

  1. Discuss the prevention of and treatment for the health concerns that could occur while backpacking, including hypothermia, heat reactions, frostbite, dehydration, insect stings, tick bites, snakebite, and blisters.
  2. Do the following:
    a. List 10 items that are essential to be carried on any backpacking trek and explain why each item is necessary.
    b. Describe 10 ways you can limit the weight and bulk to be carried in your pack without jeopardizing your health or safety.
  3. Do the following:
    a. Define limits on the number of backpackers appropriate for a trek crew.
    b. Describe how a trek crew should be organized.
    c. Tell how you would minimize risk on a backpacking trek.
  4. Do the following:
    a. Describe the importance of using Leave No Trace principles while backpacking, and at least five ways you can lessen the crew’s impact on the environment.
    b. Describe proper methods of handling human and other wastes while on a backpacking trek. Describe the importance of and means to assure personal cleanliness while on a backpacking trek.
    c. Tell what factors are important in choosing a campsite.
  5. Do the following:
    a. Demonstrate two ways to treat water and tell why water treatment is essential.
    b. Explain to your counselor the importance of staying well hydrated during a trek.
  6. Do the following:
    a. Demonstrate that you can read topographic maps.
    b. While on a trek, use a map and compass to establish your position on the ground at least three times at three different places, OR use a GPS receiver to establish your position on a topographic map and on the ground at least three times at three different places.
    c. Explain how to stay found, and what to do if you get lost.
  7. Tell how to prepare properly for and deal with inclement weather.
  8. Do the following:
    a. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of three different types of backpacking stoves using at least three different types of fuel.
    b. Demonstrate that you know how to operate a backpacking stove safely and to handle liquid fuel safely.
    c. Prepare at least three meals using a stove and fuel you can carry in a backpack.
    d. Demonstrate that you know how to keep cooking and eating gear clean and sanitary and that you practice proper methods for food storage while on a backpacking trek.
  9. Do the following:
    a. Write a plan for a patrol backpacking hike that includes a time control plan.
    b. Show that you know how to properly pack your personal gear and your share of the crew’s gear and food.
    c. Show you can properly shoulder your pack and adjust it for proper wear.
    d. Conduct a prehike inspection of the patrol and its equipment.
    e. While carrying your pack, complete a hike of at least 2 miles.
  10. Using Leave No Trace principles, participate in at least three backpacking treks of at least three days each and at least 15 miles each, and using at least two different campsites on each trek. Carry everything you will need throughout the trek.
  11. Do the following:
    a. Write a plan for a backpacking trek of at least five days using at least three different campsites and covering at least 30 miles. Your plan must include a description of and route to the trek area, a schedule (including a daily schedule), a list of food and equipment needs, a safety and emergency plan, and a budget.
    b. Using Leave No Trace principles, take the trek planned and, while on the trek, complete at least one service project approved by your merit badge counselor.
    c. Keep a daily journal during the trek that includes a day-by-day description of you activities, including notes about what worked well and thoughts about improvements that could be made for the next trek.

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Hiking

From the BSA Manual

Hiking requirements

  1. Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while hiking, including hypothermia, heatstroke, heat exhaustion, frostbite, dehydration, sunburn, sprained ankle, insect stings, tick bites, snakebite, blisters, hyperventilation, and altitude sickness.
  2. Explain and, where possible, show the points of good hiking practices. including the principles of Leave No Trace, hiking safety in the daytime and at night, courtesy to others, choice of footwear, and proper care of feet and footwear.
  3. Explain how hiking is an aerobic activity. Develop a plan for conditioning yourself for 10-mile hikes, and describe how you will increase your fitness for longer hikes.
  4. Make a written plan for a 10-mile hike, including map routes, a clothing and equipment list, and a list of items for a trail lunch.
  5. Take five hikes, each on a different day, and each of at least ten continuous miles. Prepare a hike plan for each hike.*
  6. Take a hike of 20 continuous miles in one day following a hike plan you have prepared.*
  7. After each of the hikes (or during each hike if on one continuous "trek") in requirements 5 and 6, write a short report of your experience. Give dates and descriptions of routes covered, the weather, and interesting things you saw. Share this report with your merit badge counselor.
  • The hikes in requirements 5 and 6 can be used in fulfilling Second Class Rank (2a) and First Class Rank (3) rank requirements, but only if Hiking merit badge requirements 1, 2, 3, and 4 have been completed to the satisfaction of your counselor. The hikes of requirements 5 and 6 cannot be used to fulfill requirements of other merit badges.

Badge found here.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

5K 10K


This one is pretty much a no-brainer. Walk a 5 K, walk a 10 K

This weekend is the annual 5K/10K/marathon in town. Next year I want to walk the 5k to earn my first badge.

Badges found here and here
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Cycling


From the BSA Manual

Cycling requirements

  1. Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while cycling, including hypothermia, heat reactions, frostbite, dehydration, insect stings, tick bites, snakebites, blisters, and hyperventilation.
  2. Clean and adjust a bicycle. Prepare it for inspection using a bicycle safety checklist. Be sure the bicycle meets local laws.
  3. Show your bicycle to your counselor for inspection. Point out the adjustments or repairs you have made. Do the following:
    a. Show all points that need oiling regularly.
    b. Show points that should be checked regularly to make sure the bicycle is safe to ride.
    c. Show how to adjust brakes, seat level and height, and steering tube.
  4. Describe how to brake safely with foot brakes and with hand brakes.
  5. Show how to repair a flat. Use an old bicycle tire.
  6. Take a road test with your counselor and demonstrate the following:
    a. Properly mount, pedal, and brake including emergency stops.
    b. On an urban street with light traffic, properly execute a left turn from the center of the street; also demonstrate an alternate left turn technique used during periods of heavy traffic.
    c. Properly execute a right turn.
    d. Demonstrate appropriate actions at a right-turn-only lane when you are continuing straight.
    e. Show proper curbside and road-edge riding. Show how to safely ride along a row of parked cars.
    f. Cross railroad tracks properly.
  7. Describe your state’s traffic laws for bicycles. Compare them with motor-vehicle laws. Know the bicycle-safety guidelines.
  8. Avoiding main highways, take two rides of 10 miles each, two rides of 15 miles each, and two rides of 25 miles each. You must make a report of the rides taken. List dates, routes traveled, and interesting things seen.*
  9. After fulfilling requirement 8, lay out on a road map a 50-mile trip. Stay away from main highways. Using your map, make this ride in eight hours.
  • The bicycle must have all required safety features. It must be registered as required by your local traffic laws.

I used to ride all over town when I was in college, and yet I never bothered to look up the proper methods or any of the laws. That ought to change.

Granted first I need to buy a bike. And I believe there will be more repair requirements added as well, stay tuned.

Badge found here.

10/20/2013

I have an update!

I now have a bike!

And I remember how to ride it.  

Have yet to get out in any real traffic yet, but at least I'm working on this one.
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Food preservation

The BSA doesn't really cover this one. And the closest Farmgirl Sisterhood entry, Farm Kitchen: Self-sufficiency, is too commercial (I shouldn't have to buy her book to complete it), too unspecific (Learn how to pickle veggies, does that mean I have to try it or just read about it?) and too simplistic (Dry herbs, dry fruit, and make spaghetti sauce, that's it?)

So I am modifying the food preservation guidelines from our county fair exhibitors handbook.
Process one lot from each class. Processing- must be according to recognized food preservation method & accredited recipe source, such as OSU Extension instruction booklets, Ball Blue Book, Kerr Canning Book, or any current edition of food preservation publications.

Class 02: Vegetable
Lot:
01. Asparagus 07. Corn
02. Green Beans 08. Greens
03. Wax Beans 09. Okra
04. Shelled Beans 10. Tomatoes
05. Beets 11. Mixed
06. Carrots 12. Other

Class 03: Fruits
Lot:
01. Apples 08. Peaches
02. Apricots 09. Pears
03. Blackberries 10. Pineapple
04. Any Berries 11. Plums
05. Maraschino Cherries 12. Rhubarb
06. Cherries 13. Strawberry
07. Grapes 14. Other

Class 06: Fruit Butters
Lot:
01. Apple 04. Pear
02. Apricot 05. Strawberry
03. Peach 06. Other

Class 07: Jellies
Lot:
01. Apple 06. Mint
02. Berry 07. Pepper
03. Cranberry 08. Plum
04. Current 09. Sugar-free
05. Grape 10. Other

Class 08: Marmalades
Lot:
01. Citrus 03. Vegetable
02. Fruit 04. Other

Class 09: Jams
Lot:
01. Apricot 07. Grape
02. Berry 08. Peach
03. Blueberry 09. Plum
04. Cherry 10. Pineapple
05. Fig 11. Strawberry
06. Freezer 12. Other

Class 10: Conserves
Lot:
01. Ambrosia 04. Cranberry
02. Blueberry 05. Strawberry
03. Cherry 06. Other

Class 11: Preserves
Lot:
01. Apple 07. Peach
02. Apricot 08. Pear
03. Berry 09. Plum
04. Cherry 10. Strawberry
05. Current 11. Tomato
06. Watermelon Rind 12. Other

Class 12: Pickled
Lot:
01. Asparagus 08. Jardinière
02. Beans 09. Mushrooms
03. Beets 10. Onions
04. Sweet Cucumber 11. Peppers
05. Dill Cucumber 12. Sauerkraut
06. Bread & Butter 13. Zucchini, Any
07. Green Tomato 14. Other

Class 13: Relishes
Lot:
01. Cucumber 05. Red
02. Corn 06. Tomato
03. Green 07. Zucchini
04. Mixed 08. Other

Class 14: Salsas & Sauces
Lot:
01. Red Salsa 05. Catsup
02. Green Salsa 06. Barbeque
03. Fruit Salsa 07. Pizza
04. Spaghetti (no meat) 08. Other

Class 15: Dried Vegetables
Lot:
01. Asparagus 06. Onions
02. Beans 07. Peppers
03. Corn 08. Tomatoes
04. Carrots 09. Zucchini
05. Mushrooms 10. Other

Class 16: Dried Fruits
Lot:
01. Apples 05. Pineapples
02. Apricots 06. Prunes
03. Banana 07. Raisins
04. Cranberries 08. Other
Class 17: Fruit Leathers
Lot:
01. Apple 04. Strawberry
02. Peach 05. Mixed
03. Pear 06. Other

Class 18: Dried Herbs
Lot:
01. Basil 07. Mint, Any
02. Catnip 08. Parsley
03. Dill 09. Oregano
04. Chives 10. Rosemary
05. Cilantro 11. Sage
06. Lavender 12. Other

I know, it's a long list. Sorry about that.

Badge found here.
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Archery


From the BSA manual

Archery requirements

  1. Do the following:
    a. State and explain the Range Safety Rules.
    1. Three safety rules when on the shooting line.
    2. Three safety rules when retrieving arrows.
    3. The four whistle commands used on a range and their related verbal commands.
    b. State and explain the general safety rules for archery. Demonstrate how to safely carry arrows in your hands.
    c. Tell about your local and state laws for owning and using archery tackle.
  2. Do the following:
    a. Name and point out the parts of an arrow.
    b. Describe three or more different types of arrows.
    c. Name the four principle materials for making arrow shafts.
    d. Make a complete arrow from a bare shaft.
    e. Explain how to properly care for and store arrows.
  3. Do the following:
    a. Explain how to proper care for and store tabs, arm guards, shooting gloves, and quivers.
    b. Explain the following terms: cast, draw weight, string height (fistmele), aiming, spine, mechanical release, freestyle, and barebow.
    c. Make a bowstring.
  4. Explain the following:
    a. The importance of obedience to a range officer or other person in charge of a range.
    b. The difference between an end and a round.
    c. The differences among field, target, and 3-D archery.
    d. How the five-color National Archery Association (NAA) or Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc (FITA) target is scored.
    e. How the National Field Archery Association (NFAA) black-and-white field targets and blue indoor targets are scored.
    f. The elimination system used in Olympic archery competition.
  5. Do ONE of the following options:
    Option A - Using a Recurve Bow or Longbow
    a. Name and Point to the parts of the recurve or longbow you are shooting.
    b. Explain how to properly care for and store recurve bows and longbows.
    c. Show the nine steps of good shooting for the recurve bow or longbow you are shooting.
    d. Demonstrate the proper way to string a recurve bow or longbow.
    e. Locate and mark with dental floss, crimp-on, or other method, the nocking point on the bowstring of the bow you are using.
    f. Do ONE of the following:
    1. Using a recurve or longbow and arrows with a finger release, shoot a single round of one of the following BSA, NAA,or NFAA rounds:
    a. An NFAA field round of 14 targets and make a score of 60 points.
    b. A BSA Scout field round of 14 targets and make a score of 80 points.
    c. A Junior 900 round and make a score of 180 points.
    d. A FITA/NAA indoor* round I and make a score of 80 points.
    e. An NFAA indoor* round and make a score of 50 points.
    2. Shooting 30 arrows in five-arrow ends at an 80-centimeter (32-inch) five-color target at 15 yards and using the 10 scoring regions, make a score of 150.
    3. As a member of the NAA's Junior Olympic Development Program (JOAD), qualify as a Yeoman, Junior Bowman, and Bowman.
    4. As a member of the NFAA's Junior Division, earn a Cub or Youth 100-score Progression patch.
Option B - Using a Compound Bow
a. Name and point to the parts of the compound bow you are shooting.
b. Explain how to properly care for and store compound bows.
c. Show the nine steps of good shooting for the compound bow you are shooting.
d. Explain why it is necessary to have the string on a compound bow replaced at an archery shop.
e. Locate and mark with dental floss, crimp-on, or other method, the nocking point on the bowstring of the bow you are using.
f. Do ONE of the following:
1. Using a compound bow and arrows with a finger release, shoot a single round of ONE of the following BSA, NAA,or NFAA rounds:
a. An NFAA field round of 4 targets and make a score of 70 points.
b. A BSA Scout field round of 14 targets and make a score of 90 points.
c. A Junior 900 round and make a score of 200 points.
d. A FITA/NAA indoor* round I and make a score of 90 points.
e. An NFAA indoor* round and make a score of 60 points.
2. Shooting 30 arrows in five-arrow ends at an 80-centimeter (32-inch) five-color target at 15 yards and using the 10 scoring regions, make a score of 170.
3. As a member of the NAA's Junior Olympic Development Program (JOAD), qualify as a Yeoman, Junior Bowman, and Bowman.
4. As a member of the NFAA's Junior Division, earn a Cub or Youth 100-score Progression patch.
  • The indoor rounds can be shot outdoors if this is more convenient.

The bolded points are the ones we're using to make this badge. NFAA indoor rules found here on page 3. If I'm reading this correctly you shoot at 20 yards, aim at the described target, and have 60 shots to make 50 points.

The other option would be to use the NAA distances listed here. We'd both be in the senior division, and we shoot bare recurves. It seems like this is more of a challenge but it might not be possible at our range.

Badge found here.
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