Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

We ended up going last weekend. We invited my son's friend and his dad to join us. The rental youth guns they had were slim pickings. The first one was a youth 20 with a 32" barrel, which was pretty hard for the boys to swing. We went back for another one and we got one that was shorter, but still had a long length of pull. The front bead sight was missing as well.

We threw maybe 75 birds total, the kids did most of the shooting, my sons smoked a handful of them and winged a couple and his friend winged a few as well.

I think if the shotgun fit better, we would have stayed longer, but we ended up going to the rifle range for a bit instead and plinked with some 22s.


And yesterday I made the trek out to the 500 yard range. It was a constant 24 mph wind and 40 mph gusts. I worked on my zero for my centerfire rifles, I had a few new scopes to dial in. Once I had the zero set, I chronographed everything a built a dope chart. I was able to ring the 12" plates at 200, 300 and 500 with no issue, but the 2" at 500 wasn't happening with the wind.
Glad the boys had a good time, that kind of wind is just ridiculous to try and shoot in. Then you start chasing your dope and the whole thing unravels! Good call on not worrying much about the 500 line. I was working with a youth today shooting rifle at our range. He was rocking it right up until about the twenty minute mark then he was out of concentration. His Father wanted him to keep shooting but I explained to the Dad he had done remarkable and 15 mins or so is about tops for his age. It just is what it is. The Father is a great guy and is a local SWAT officer. He was drooling over a little ole 308 I had out and so I let him shoot it. He clover leafed it and started babbling something about buying it! Hah!
His son really shot good. I had to put a cement block on the bench for him to sit on. Great day.