Lessons From Life No 3245

[Doc]

You live and learn....

I was teaching my eldest son rifle shooting, with air rifle to start with. To add a bit of encouragement, I put a £2 coin in a notch on the log.

"If you can hit it first time, Ross, it's yours."

Ross takes a long, long, long time aiming.

Zing! Coin flies off into the air.

"Dad! Can we do that again?"

I look at the tin of pellets, now containing 499 rounds.

"Umm, no, let's just practice grouping...."

 

[capacious]

Lol.... could've been quite an expensive shooting lesson!!! . I don't suppose you'd like to teach me .........

 

[g4ghb]

me next please!

 

[tomtom]

hehe fantastic mate.. i use a film canister end on as thats about the kill zone on most of what i shoot.. you could try that though no doubt it wont be so popular with your lad!

 

[ilovemybed]

Good lad!

Perhaps, to save money and make it more challenging you could "promote" him to shooting 1p's?

 

[william#]

what a great intro into shooting , he is gona be hooked now - nice one

 

[Hoodoo]

A good way to spark enthusiasm.

 

[Ahjno]

:AR15firin

LOL Great story Doc!
At what distance did he shot that coin??

Don't think it was a lucky first time shot ... Not with aiming a long long time as he did ... Might be some hidden sniper-talent

I suggest to try it again with a 1 GBP coin and some smaller ones
Just to raise the bar

 

[Doc]

The range was just 10 metres, so he's not quite ready for the Olympics yet. Not bad for a beginning eight year old though.

The rifle is a thirty year old Crosman pump-up. Only weighs about 4 or 5 pounds and he can pump it and work the cocking bolt himself. Being a pneumatic it is recoilless so easy to shoot, and for a cheap rifle it's quite accurate.

 

[wingstoo]

When I was with the cadet forces the marksman's badge was attained with 5 shots into a 25mm group at 25 mtrs with a bolt action .22 rifle based on the No4 Lee-enfield. 25mm is about the size of a 2 pence coin. With some of the kids you couldn,'t get them to shoot any better if you stuck a £10 note at the other end!! this said, the better shooters could put 5 shots into a group the size of a 5 pence coin.

One of the best long range groupings I managed was 63mm at 100 mtrs with the good old SLR (Self Loading Rifle) 7.62mm FMJ, no prizes for that though. We are buying our 7 year old daughter her own air-rifle next year, never to yung to get them started.

LS