WEST POINT, Miss. (Press Release) – Sources from an MSU Press Release say that when Union County 4-H’er Aubri Hutcheson signed up for slingshot in Mississippi 4-H’s Shooting Sports program over the summer, she just wanted to try something new.

Hutcheson is a fixture at livestock shows and quiz bowls, but she wanted to add another activity. When she learned Mississippi 4-H Shooting Sports would be the first in the country to offer a slingshot discipline, she was intrigued at the prospect of a shooting activity with a primitive weapon.

Of the 10 shooting sports disciplines offered by the state’s youth development organization, archery is the only other non-firearm option.

So far, she has enjoyed it enough to consider sticking around and even adding the .22 pistol discipline next year.

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