My father outshoots me...

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This weekend I took my father to the range. The last time we shot together must have been 23 years ago when I was twelve. Then we shot a Stevens single-shot .22 Crackshot that he got me when I was ten.

Well, this time we brought a little arsenal - three rifles and five handguns. He hasn't shot a handgun since he was in the service in the 1960s, so he was a little uncomfortable with my 9mms. But this was his first group with my Tikka .308 Varmint at 100 yards. He kept saying, "Well, I think I only hit it once or twice." Five rounds, .55". But I was watching through a scope on another gun, and then he proceed to shoot two more groups less than 1". He wasn't missing.

I know my gun can shoot that well, but I hardly ever can. Not bad for a guy who practically never shoots anymore.

Feeling pretty humbled by the old guy.
 

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He's 65, not that old, actually. Still, for a guy who never shoots, and whose hands do have a bit of an arthritic shake, not bad...
 
Pretty good shooting there. I believe the proper way to measure it to measure from the center of the hole to the center of the other holes.
 
You could use that as a basis to "challenge" him, and you and he keep going to the range to shoot and see who does better----all in good fun, of course. He shoots, you shoot, you have a good time, everyone goes home happy.
 
Pretty good shooting there. I believe the proper way to measure it to measure from the center of the hole to the center of the other holes.
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You're going to give the poor guy a complex.
 
you have a good teacher in your father, if you are wise enough to learn, seams like the only having issues with age....is you.
 
I have a shooting bud, a state service rifle champion. His Dad was on the USMC rifle team before he shot for "record" at Chosin Reservoir, Korea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir

Anyway, USMC Dad, in his seventies, shot in a Highpower match with his son a couple of years ago. At 500 yards, he was putting them in the ten ring. At least a lot of them. And that was with a post, might have been a Garand or M1a. I forget. I was in the pits and we were cheering him (as though he could hear us) when he was hitting Bullseyes.

We were all proud of him.
 
He taught me to shoot when I was eight or nine, but we stopped shooting together when I was 13 (they closed down the place we used to shoot and then we just never found another place to go).
 
I didn't learn to shoot till i was 11-12. I got to shoot once or twice but then i moved to TN. it's good you still get to shoot with your dad though. I shoulda said that earlier. My dads a [I'm gonna stop their and just say he sucks and he's still in new york]. i can easily outshoot my stepfather [soon to be Ex-stepfather]. not sure about my grandpa though. when i get some more guns i'm gonna go to a range [or the backyard depending on where we move] and have some fun with him.



EDIT: oh yeah. Gunnoob, what's wrong with pics. :D
 
My dad could always outshoot me, and I think it hurt his feelings that I wasn't any better. But he was trained by the USMC, and then given all the free ammo he wanted from 1942-1945.
 
Well, first off-that's a really sweet group! And it's great to be shooting with our dads. I 've enjoyed getting back into this with my dad recently so I know just where you're at (except my dad will be 70 this month...).

And now the 'rest' of the story heheh...

When you hear old timers talk about the art of marksmanship and "all that jazz" this is what is meant. The fundamentals of good shoothing haven't changed since the invention of the firearm. Lather-rinse-repeat. Sight picture, breathing, trigger control.

These are the things which *must* be mastered if one is to shoot well.
 
I'm another poor shot ,Pop could out shoot me handgun, rifle or shotgun, he was another Grunt, his Uncle Sammy taught him well. Pops, qualified marksman and he had an injury to his shooting eye which caused the pupil in that eye to migrate to the perimeter of the iris, when you looked him in the eye, it resembled a cats eye. How he shot the way he did is a true wonder.
 
My dad always humbles me on the pistol range.
Former FBI. He really knows his way around a Smith .38 Special snubbie.
 
I am like that with my son. I'm 62 and 30 years older and can usually outshoot him any day, except mayby with a shotgun. He is not that interested and only goes when I ask him. He did pick up on the fit and handling of my Parker shotgun, liking it better than anything else, not knowing what it was. He want's it to be his someday.
 
I will not shoot for money against my Mother. She gets all the braggin' rights for free.
 
When I was younger I learned to shoot quarters, pennies and golf balls hand tossed with a nylon 66. I was good because I had good eyes, coordination and practiced a lot. My oldest can do it with the same rifle, but not as consistentely as I once could. My eyes aren't as good as they once were, but I can still hold my own. He's much better with a shotgun (his weapon of choice).
 
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