Fire Away: Summer Gets More Awesome With The Zing Air Huntress Bow

Posted by Jeff on May 29, 2013 at 10:55 am

Many a cardboard box, plastic twist tie, and bubble packaging have crossed our threshold. One of the perks of covering All Thing Childhood, such as I have been doing for the past 5+ years, is having childhood related products, generally referred to as ‘toys’, sent to our doorstep, delivered weekly by men and women in brown and blue.

Little did I know, a hot pink archery set designed to be girl friendly (gag me) would end up as the greatest toy we’ve ever received for review consideration.

Listen, I didn’t want to like it and resisted strongly while at the Time to Play spring toy showcase in NYC last month. I mean, you simply can’t say you’re making it pink for girls in one breath and say something about girls getting into archery because of The Hunger Games in the next without taking a moment to reflect on that idiocy of those two remarks when smashed together. I saw Hunger Games, and feel confident saying Katniss Everdeen wouldn’t be caught dead with a flaming hot pink bow and arrow set. If girls are getting into IT because of HER then consider yourself free from the shackles of color convention. Make it jet black with a bit of gold trim, or olive green with some antiqued brass, just don’t tell me you made it pink for girls because of THAT character from THAT movie. Aaaaaaaanyway…

Regardless of the color, the Zing Air Huntress Z-Curve Bow is caps-lock AMAZING.

Both of my girls and my wife and I play with our Air Huntress Z-Curve Bow daily, using it to ‘attack’ the Queen’s dragon fortress (a jungle gym at the park, and now our own GeoDome Climber in the backyard), to fire over the house from front yard to back, and shooting it 100+ feet straight up into the air and playing catch as gravity quickly sucks it down to earth. So. Much. Fun! And I also played my own game of skeet shooting as the girls flew our big blue butterfly kite at the park last weekend. Fortunately for me, I didn’t actually make contact with their kite!

We’ve already ordered a 2nd bow, the green Zing Air Z-Curve (which is a couple of bucks cheaper, for some reason, than the Air Huntress), because that’s The Bear’s favorite color and because we need another one of these brilliant human-powered toys to essentially play long toss, to use a baseball term, in the backyard and back and forth over top the house.

We love that the Zing Air Huntress Bow is so simple, with no batteries, no removable parts, no social media sharing tie-ins, nothing but kid (and dad) powered fun for hours and hours out of doors. That, my dear friends, is about as good as it gets.

As with anything not cast in titanium, there are questions about durability. The arrows seem unnaturally sturdy, remarkably so. The bow too, but those rubber bands? I dunno. I hope to get at least one warm outdoor season out of our two Zing Air Bows.

You’ve gotta try this for yourself! Buy a Zing Air Huntress and/or Air Z-Curve Bow and make your family’s summer 175% more awesome.

The Air Hunterz Z-Curve Bow is also available in Camo, Black & Red and that version happens to be the cheapest of the lot on Amazon right now!

*OWTK received a Zing Air Huntress for review consideration. We then bought our 2nd bow. The opinions expressed above are honest and unbiased, as always.