Master Blaster
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Hi all I wanted to share my experience:
Saturday morning I loaded up my gear to go over to DELCO field and stream for a little time on the .22 rimfire range, and the Pellet gun range.
I wanted to do a little silhouette shooting at 50 yards on the .22 range.
So as I was getting ready to leave, my daughter said she wanted to go also. Now my wife daughter and son (age 5 today) have gone to the pellet gun range with me before, but neither my son or daughter has fired a .22lr yet. So I told daughter we would be shooting a .22lr., but could later stop at the pellet gun range. She wanted to shoot a real gun with daddy!!! Before we left she wanted to change her shoes, she came back downstairs wearing her favorite pair of white patent leather shoes. Now I know better than to argue with a woman about her choice of shoes
So off we went.
I brought my thompson center contender in .22lr. I chose it because of the fantastic trigger pull and short reach to the trigger Also for safety because I have to cock it after each shot . Now she already knows the 4 rules of gun safety but we went over them again on the way.
We set up at the tin can position, which is 2 rows of five tincan sized steel plate silhouettes at 50 yards. They are resetable by means of a cable from the shooter's position. The shooting positions have a roof over them and so do the target positions, the middle has a lath-house style roof. It was so hot and hgumid that the barrel of the contender, and the outside of the scope fogged with heavy condensation. After we wiped them dry we commenced shooting. She hit about 40 out of 100 shots with some strings where she hit five or six targets in a row!!!.
We went to the pellet range after a break, but only stayed 10 minutes, because the contender was much more fun to shoot, as she said, and she was getting tired anyway (2 hours of shooting the contender).
She was very proud when we got home and told my wife and son all about it. A great morning, we then ate lunch and all went swimming.
Later in the day at the pool she was telling
everyone about the great time she had. Her best friend from a non firearm owning family asked her parents if she could go also. They said we'll see,
HMM I will have to work on them a bit.
She was really excited and had a great time.
Saturday morning I loaded up my gear to go over to DELCO field and stream for a little time on the .22 rimfire range, and the Pellet gun range.
I wanted to do a little silhouette shooting at 50 yards on the .22 range.
So as I was getting ready to leave, my daughter said she wanted to go also. Now my wife daughter and son (age 5 today) have gone to the pellet gun range with me before, but neither my son or daughter has fired a .22lr yet. So I told daughter we would be shooting a .22lr., but could later stop at the pellet gun range. She wanted to shoot a real gun with daddy!!! Before we left she wanted to change her shoes, she came back downstairs wearing her favorite pair of white patent leather shoes. Now I know better than to argue with a woman about her choice of shoes
So off we went.I brought my thompson center contender in .22lr. I chose it because of the fantastic trigger pull and short reach to the trigger Also for safety because I have to cock it after each shot . Now she already knows the 4 rules of gun safety but we went over them again on the way.
We set up at the tin can position, which is 2 rows of five tincan sized steel plate silhouettes at 50 yards. They are resetable by means of a cable from the shooter's position. The shooting positions have a roof over them and so do the target positions, the middle has a lath-house style roof. It was so hot and hgumid that the barrel of the contender, and the outside of the scope fogged with heavy condensation. After we wiped them dry we commenced shooting. She hit about 40 out of 100 shots with some strings where she hit five or six targets in a row!!!.
We went to the pellet range after a break, but only stayed 10 minutes, because the contender was much more fun to shoot, as she said, and she was getting tired anyway (2 hours of shooting the contender).
She was very proud when we got home and told my wife and son all about it. A great morning, we then ate lunch and all went swimming.
Later in the day at the pool she was telling
everyone about the great time she had. Her best friend from a non firearm owning family asked her parents if she could go also. They said we'll see,
HMM I will have to work on them a bit.
She was really excited and had a great time.
