Our girl Abby Casey heads to North Georgia to see what it’s all about. We recently made our way down to Cox Arena in Silver Creek, Georgia, to kick up some dirt with the Chattahoochee Horse Archers. Mounted archery makes any other type of archery seem like cake – try keeping your balance while running wide open on a horse, knocking an arrow and hitting a target at the same time. That’s what the Chattahoochee Horse Archers do, and they do a damn good job at it. Credit: Rated Red

Archery has been one of the most important inventions in history. Though today it is practiced primarily as a sport, archery formed nations (and destroyed some others). Once it was adapted to warfare, generals and kings demanded their citizens be trained at archery to be ready at a moment’s notice if other armies invaded. Once their archers took to horseback, they became lethal weapons which made invading armies think twice. 

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