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For Christmas I gave my 9 year old nephew, Logan, the classic, timeless Christmas gift, a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, which he loves, and is a crack shot with...
Sage, his sister, is 7, and an exuberant bundle of energy, but for some reason, is intimidated by Logan's DRR, she keeps referring to it as "scary", or should I say she *kept* calling it scary....
tonight, I grabbed some assorted cans (steel soup cans and aluminum soda cans) and a couple VitaminWater bottles, and set them up on the target stand as a little "shooting gallery", I then got an evil idea....
I grabbed my Benjamin 392 pellet rifle and an unopened can of Diet Pepsi and went back downstairs, shaking up the can as I approached Logan
"what are you doing with the soda, Uncle Russ?"
we're gonna shoot it
"cool!"
you know what happens when you shoot a can of soda that's been shaken up?
"no"
it *should* explode...
"Cool!"
so, we set up the shaken can on the target stand, Sage is riding her scooter on the driveway, a safe distance away...
"What are you doing?"
shooting a shaken up can of soda
"Why"
because it should explode when hit
"Neat!"
you want to come closer and watch?
"no, i'll watch from here"
Logan then proceeded to almost hit it a few times with the DRR, so I decided to let him try my pellet rifle, i put in three pumps of air and a RWS Superdome pellet, showed him where the safety was, and handed him the rifle
he lined up on the can, fired and the can *leaped* into the air doing three full revolutions and spewing a spiral of Pepsi before falling to it's side, Logan handed me the rifle, and then ran over to the can....
"Cool!, it ripped it wide open!"
he was amazed at how the can was just ripped apart, and that he got it on his first shot, by this time Sage had run over to look at the can as Logan was happily jabbering about how cool it was
He then went and filled one of the vitamin water bottles with tap water and put the cap on it, trying my pellet rifle with eight pumps in it, that shot launched the cap into orbit and caused a fountain of water from the entry and exit holes
about this time, Sage sat on the steps behind where Logan was shooting and watched as Logan had a great time knocking over cans and bottles with the DRR, a huge smile on her face every time Logan scored a hit, in fact, she started suggesting targets....
She still declined to try the DRR herself, but she no longer seemed scared of it, I think she may even want to try it the next time we go plinking, as she suggested that I go get some more full soda cans to shoot for next time
Hmm, I sense a pink DRR in her near future as a belated birthday gift
I think she understands now... shooting is *fun*
Sage, his sister, is 7, and an exuberant bundle of energy, but for some reason, is intimidated by Logan's DRR, she keeps referring to it as "scary", or should I say she *kept* calling it scary....
tonight, I grabbed some assorted cans (steel soup cans and aluminum soda cans) and a couple VitaminWater bottles, and set them up on the target stand as a little "shooting gallery", I then got an evil idea....
I grabbed my Benjamin 392 pellet rifle and an unopened can of Diet Pepsi and went back downstairs, shaking up the can as I approached Logan
"what are you doing with the soda, Uncle Russ?"
we're gonna shoot it
"cool!"
you know what happens when you shoot a can of soda that's been shaken up?
"no"
it *should* explode...
"Cool!"
so, we set up the shaken can on the target stand, Sage is riding her scooter on the driveway, a safe distance away...
"What are you doing?"
shooting a shaken up can of soda
"Why"
because it should explode when hit
"Neat!"
you want to come closer and watch?
"no, i'll watch from here"
Logan then proceeded to almost hit it a few times with the DRR, so I decided to let him try my pellet rifle, i put in three pumps of air and a RWS Superdome pellet, showed him where the safety was, and handed him the rifle
he lined up on the can, fired and the can *leaped* into the air doing three full revolutions and spewing a spiral of Pepsi before falling to it's side, Logan handed me the rifle, and then ran over to the can....
"Cool!, it ripped it wide open!"
he was amazed at how the can was just ripped apart, and that he got it on his first shot, by this time Sage had run over to look at the can as Logan was happily jabbering about how cool it was
He then went and filled one of the vitamin water bottles with tap water and put the cap on it, trying my pellet rifle with eight pumps in it, that shot launched the cap into orbit and caused a fountain of water from the entry and exit holes
about this time, Sage sat on the steps behind where Logan was shooting and watched as Logan had a great time knocking over cans and bottles with the DRR, a huge smile on her face every time Logan scored a hit, in fact, she started suggesting targets....
She still declined to try the DRR herself, but she no longer seemed scared of it, I think she may even want to try it the next time we go plinking, as she suggested that I go get some more full soda cans to shoot for next time
Hmm, I sense a pink DRR in her near future as a belated birthday gift
I think she understands now... shooting is *fun*
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