Nathaniel Firethorn
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Read Ch. 1 of Bob Brister's Shotgunning: The Art and Science yesterday, in which he teaches his 17-year-old neighbor, who'd never shot anything in her life, how to shoot clays in one week.
He gave her a BB gun with the sights removed and a ping-pong ball and told her to shoot at the latter with the former until she could hit it consistently.
Now, I shot ten-stand sporting clays last Sunday and got a score of like 12 or 14, so I could stand some improvement. I debated whether I should maul my childhood Daisy BB gun, and eventually decided that it'd be better as a training aid than as a useless heirloom. (I also remember what Jesse James did to his old dragster on Monster Garage. )
So the next morning, I got my old Daisy, took the sights off, set up an improvised target (don't have any Ping-pong balls) and started plinking at it. Noticed some improvement. Will let you know in six days.
Anyone else here ever tried this?
Thanks,
- pdmoderator
He gave her a BB gun with the sights removed and a ping-pong ball and told her to shoot at the latter with the former until she could hit it consistently.
Now, I shot ten-stand sporting clays last Sunday and got a score of like 12 or 14, so I could stand some improvement. I debated whether I should maul my childhood Daisy BB gun, and eventually decided that it'd be better as a training aid than as a useless heirloom. (I also remember what Jesse James did to his old dragster on Monster Garage. )
So the next morning, I got my old Daisy, took the sights off, set up an improvised target (don't have any Ping-pong balls) and started plinking at it. Noticed some improvement. Will let you know in six days.
Anyone else here ever tried this?
Thanks,
- pdmoderator