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...Scouts at a Utah troop's camp-
site show why their gateway
was dino-mite; at an Action Cen-
ter archery range, Adam Berg-
eron, Franklin, Va., takes aim
with the first of his six arrows;
a Scout tackles one of the phys-
ical challenges in the Army Ad-
venture Area; cheerful staff at
the headquarters-area medical
center await the day's first case
of blisters; Odyssey of the Law
was the hit attraction of the
jamboree; a marksman zeroes
in on a flying clay target...
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tocross bicycle over a dirt course to
throwing a tomahawk and shooting a
black-powder muzzle-loading rifle.
At the shotgun shooting range, the
line grew by the minute. Patrick
Kelly and son Sean from Colorado
Springs waited patiently for their
turn.
"Today is my day off," said dad
Kelly, who was on staff at the Merit
Badge Midway, "so Sean, who came
here with the council contingent, and I
are enjoying some jamboree activities
together."
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I sent my two sons all alone from London,
England...their jamboree troop [is made up
of boys] from all over Europe.../f you run into
my boys, tell them their mother says "hi
and "brush your teeth!"
—A Scout mom in England
...the boys are having a great time...scuba,
snorkel, BMX, rappelling, bikathlon, and shoot-
ing seem to be their most popular activities....
—A jamboree Scoutmaster
Bill Whitehead, from the Denver
Area Council, is in charge of the
Western Region's shotgun area. Near-
ly 900 marksmen went through the
previous day, he said, and he expected
more today. Every participant, after
passing through an extensive shoot-
ing-safety session, got five shots at
the four-inch, orange clay targets fly-
ing away at 40 miles per hour.
Whitehead said it was remarkable
that "even though many of these kids
have never fired a gun before, only a
half-dozen or so of them don't hit at
least one target."
The experience level is similar at
an Action Center air rifle range,
where staff manager A1 Tate, from
Canby, Ore., observes that "many of
these Scouts have never fired an air
rifle before." Tate conducted a pre-
jamboree certification program for
staff instructors, and now he was su-
pervising the processing of up to
1,000 marksmen a day.
Mountain man skills and fun
At the Buckskin Games, Scouts were
greeted by staff members dressed in
outfits reminiscent of western moun-
tain men. A popular event was the
"bucking bronco"—a barrel suspend-
ed by four ropes that were pulled in
an effort to throw the rider off.
"O.K.," a leader yelled when his
group's turn arrived, "give me
our four biggest guys to pull the
ropes.. .and a volunteer to ride."
Nearby, staff members in-
structed eager Scouts on the cor-
rect—and safe—way to fling a
tomahawk at a playing card tar-
get, hurl a metal knife at a block
of wood, or snap a bullwhip at a small
balloon.
The longest Buckskin line, howev-
er, was for black-powder muzzle-load-
ing rifles. The Scouts got only one
shot, but most emerged with paper
targets showing a hole somewhere, if
not in the vicinity of the bull's-eye.
Archery appeared to be even more
popular than shotgun, air rifle, or
black-powder. At the Western Region
target range, director James H. Kay
reported that each day 1,800 to 2,000
participants (many of them repeat-
[Son], did you get your shoes? Are you
taking lots of pictures? Do you need
anything? We love you; we miss you;
we're so happy that you're getting this
opportunity!
—Scout parents in Texas
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Scouting November-December 1997
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