My son's first shotgun

[trgrcntrl]

The wife and I bought him a 870 Express 20 gauge for his birthday this week. I am pretty sure that I was more excited about it than he was, that is until yesterday when we took it out to my fathers property for some pasture clays. He broke his first target and didn't stop shooting until the box of shells was gone. I don't know who was more proud me or Grandpa and Grandma watching him hit on well over half of his shots. We are going to hit the sporting clays course tomorrow morning and try some more.

 

[jbkebert]

Man that is great. Tell the young man happy birthday and good luck at the sporting clays.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Tyler did a great job with that 20 ga. He really did hit well over 50% and it really was his first time shooting a shotgun.

I watched from the porch swing, beer in hand. Tyler is my grandson.

 

[Al Thompson]

Good stuff!

 

[stiletto raggio]

Awesome. I remember the first time I shot a shotgun. It was my dad's full-sized 1100. I did not do so well. The confidence he is building (probably from having a gun that actually fits him) will pay big dividends down the line.

 

[Dave McCracken]

Great! Thanks for improving my day. Tell him to take good care of it, HIS grandkids will thank him for it...

 

[oneounceload]

Excellent job! Glad to see a new young shooter coming along

 

[Sock Puppet]

Good stuff right there!!!

 

[Eaglestroker]

Some of my favorite memories as a kid, keep 'em shooting!

 

[USAF_Vet]

Good on ya! My stepsons birthday is in a week, and he's getting his first shotgun, too.

 

[trgrcntrl]

Thanks guys! I too have fond memories of shooting when I was young so it is the least that I could do to give my children the same. Now we are off to the range for Ty's first round of sporting clays. Well that and so I can ring out my new A400.

 

[Dave McCracken]

Enjoy....

 

[murdoc rose]

Wonderful all around.

 

[Sav .250]

There goes your retirement money.

 

[jbkebert]

Well how was the skeet range? We need bird count and results.

We took a young man to the sporting clays range for his first shoot Sunday. he had more fun than all of us combined.

 

[trgrcntrl]

We had a great time at the range while shooting sporting clays, there is not a skeet range where we went. There ended up being 12 shooters with us so we broke up into 3 squads and went after it. I was shooting with my wife, Tyler and a couple of friends from work.

The course had been used for the CO state championship the day before so it was more difficult than usual. We started on stage 3, I went first and was immediately humbled by only breaking 2. I ended up shooting a 60, the best shooter of the day had a 68 and my dad had a 52(his personal best on the hardest course I have ever shot).

Tyler did very well, he was safe, only once almost covering us and he broke a couple of clays out of a little over a box of shells. He has a pretty good bruise but never did complain. He had a good time, I made sure he knew that he only had to shoot what he was comfortable shooting.

The wife had a good time shooting our new shotgun and hitting a couple of clays.

It is going to be fun to watch them learn the art of shooting clays even if it makes me go bankrupt in the process.

He made me really proud when we got home by offering to clean his gun himself, he did a great job.

 

[jbkebert]

Good deal. Keep him going.

 

[303tom]

Excellent !