Disabled and able-bodied sportsmen and women who either require assistance themselves or simply wish to be a part of helping others are invited to apply for membership. Newly injured and inexperienced sportsmen with disabilities are provided critical information and services through PCBA and its members. We demonstrate how they can learn to shoot a bow and hunt, regardless of the impairment. PCBA serves as a national clearing house for techniques, opportunities and adaptive equipment for challenged archers. As with able-bodied bowhunters, fellowship is emphasized and promoted through special social events and hunting opportunities.
Members develop a great bond among one another.
According to the National Health Survey conducted in 1983 through 1985, over 20 millions U.S. citizens have serious long-term physical impairments that would adversely affect their ability to hunt and shoot a bow. Before the founding of PCBA there was no central source of information for the disabled archers and bowhunters in that population. Wit today's technology and the committed bowhunters we have in the U.S. and Canada, there is no reason why a disabled person should not be able to participate in our great sport if he or she has the desire to do so. It is up to us to make it happen for them. We work closely with hospitals and rehabilitation facilities.