Rob Pincus
New member
Okay, time to find out who's been shooting....
I competed in my first IDPA match last weekend, I did much better than I did under the limited vicker scoring of the qualifier.
This afternoon I took my three year old shooting with a SA .22. She shot some short and some long rifle. After shooting a big piece of cardboard a few times, I put some masking tape (about 5x5") on the board to give her a target, she did pretty good, at about 2 yards, she hit the tape 4 of 5 times. Her biggest problem was the strength it took her to holdup the gun. I may let her shoot the Semi auto next time, as it is lighter, and the wieght is more over her hands, instead of out in front. The weight problem caused her to have to arch her back and wiggle the gun around a bit when she was trying to aim and squeezing the trigger.
She then, with my help, hit 2 shaken up carbonated beverage cans at about 3 yards, she really enjoyed that.. and it gave me a chance to show her how "powerful" guns are and how they can put "big holes" in things. She was very aware of saftey issues. I exagerrated everything of course. After we emptied the gun the first time, she insisted that we look behind the target area before we started shooting again once we reloaded. We had to walk all around the backstop again and make sure no one and no animals were back there.
This was her first time shooting a handgun, so we took a few pictures... it was quite fun....
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-Essayons
I competed in my first IDPA match last weekend, I did much better than I did under the limited vicker scoring of the qualifier.
This afternoon I took my three year old shooting with a SA .22. She shot some short and some long rifle. After shooting a big piece of cardboard a few times, I put some masking tape (about 5x5") on the board to give her a target, she did pretty good, at about 2 yards, she hit the tape 4 of 5 times. Her biggest problem was the strength it took her to holdup the gun. I may let her shoot the Semi auto next time, as it is lighter, and the wieght is more over her hands, instead of out in front. The weight problem caused her to have to arch her back and wiggle the gun around a bit when she was trying to aim and squeezing the trigger.
She then, with my help, hit 2 shaken up carbonated beverage cans at about 3 yards, she really enjoyed that.. and it gave me a chance to show her how "powerful" guns are and how they can put "big holes" in things. She was very aware of saftey issues. I exagerrated everything of course. After we emptied the gun the first time, she insisted that we look behind the target area before we started shooting again once we reloaded. We had to walk all around the backstop again and make sure no one and no animals were back there.
This was her first time shooting a handgun, so we took a few pictures... it was quite fun....
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-Essayons