Met a future great shooter today!

[dmills]

I was at the range today to sight in the T/C .45 with new peep sight. A grandfather with a Traditions "Hawken" .50 showed up with his grandson, about age 10, and they set up next to me on the 25 yd range.

Grandpa proceeded to shoot at (and all around) his target with the ML while the grandson plinked with a semi-auto 22 at another target. I didn't pay any attention to how or how well the boy was shooting the 22.

Then the Grandson took a shot (standing off-hand) with the ML. Bang. Dead center shot. So I thought "lucky shot." Grandpa took a few more shots and then reloaded for the boy. Bang, the hole was about 1/2" away from the first shot. Again, this was off-hand standing. This time I had observed his stance. All wrong, you know. Ok, his next shot sometime later was out of the bulls-eye by a little bit. Finally, as they were about to leave, the boy took another shot with the ML. Bang. The boy said "I don't see it, I think I missed." Grandpa looked through his binoculars and agreed. Then a cease fire was called and the boy and I walked down to look at the targets. His final shot was in a line between his first two shots! I noticed at that time that the bulls-eye was peppered with 22 cal. holes. I told him "good shooting," for lack of a better response. He said "thanks" and left with Grandpa. Hope I see them again.

 

[shmrck1]

Love to hear stories like yours!
snake-eyes :hatsoff:

 

[renovato]

Hey, that's great. So many of the yunguns are into the modern stuff. Nice to see interest in muzzleloading too.

 

[Slowpoke]

My nephew is kinda like that... I restocked a Dixie SxS shotgun for him with a 12 inch pull. He processed to hit 16 or 17 out of 20 clay birds. I was amazed since this was the first time he had shot a shot a shotgun. :shocked2: I told him to use the hammers as a site and whenever the clay was between them, pull the trigger.

 

[trent/OH]

I was at Friendship this weekend, helping at the Youth Range Saturday. About 15 kids shot ML while I was there. Maybe 6 shot the 22's. Some probably shot both. One of the boys was about 8 years old, and nailed a gong or silhouette with every shot off the youth bench. Those kids aren't all interested in modern stuff, not from my experiences.