I went with my 16 year old son yesterday to the range to shoot our M38, M44, 22LR, 30-06, SA1911 45cal and SA X9mm. Sorry guys, that's all I have. We shot about 400 rds each for the pistols and its just mostly setting up the targets and a few talk. After we finished with the pistols we moved on to the rifle range. This was his first time to shoot high powered rifle. I let him try the 22 first and he was hitting the target at 50 yds. After that he tried his M44 and I was thinking he'd complain about the recoil. He's a skinny kid at 95 lbs not really tall (like me).
Since we don't have any paper target set up at 100 yds I told him to try hitting the steel target at 200 yds. We ahd a hard time setting the sight since we don't know the effective range for the calibration. I just set it at 2 hoping we get it right. He hit the steel target 3 times in a row, but that was after a few misses. He must have felt tired after that since he was all over the place after that.
I tried my M38 too but I only hit it once. We have shot around 60 rounds of 7.62.
After that we used the 30-06 using my own load. I tried it on paper first at 100 yds ( I was able to get a target after a while). I was hitting 3" high, on the 3rd round I sighted the steel at 200 yds and I hit it. I tried again on the 4th rd and luck was still with me. I stopped after that since I figured that's the maximum shot you need to get a deer.
My son tried the 30-06 too and I have about 16 rds left. He finished all and he was able to hit the 200 yd target too. But we don't know how many times he hit it.
I can't imagine he'd be able to withstand those recoils. Too bad we weren't able to try the Barnaul ammos since they don't allow steel bullets there.
vega
Since we don't have any paper target set up at 100 yds I told him to try hitting the steel target at 200 yds. We ahd a hard time setting the sight since we don't know the effective range for the calibration. I just set it at 2 hoping we get it right. He hit the steel target 3 times in a row, but that was after a few misses. He must have felt tired after that since he was all over the place after that.
I tried my M38 too but I only hit it once. We have shot around 60 rounds of 7.62.
After that we used the 30-06 using my own load. I tried it on paper first at 100 yds ( I was able to get a target after a while). I was hitting 3" high, on the 3rd round I sighted the steel at 200 yds and I hit it. I tried again on the 4th rd and luck was still with me. I stopped after that since I figured that's the maximum shot you need to get a deer.
My son tried the 30-06 too and I have about 16 rds left. He finished all and he was able to hit the 200 yd target too. But we don't know how many times he hit it.
I can't imagine he'd be able to withstand those recoils. Too bad we weren't able to try the Barnaul ammos since they don't allow steel bullets there.
vega