Woodbender
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First post but I've been lurking for a while.
My daughter (10) showed a lot of interest in shooting after a brief 22 shooting experience at a camp. After searching for a decent gun for a while and ruling out all the short, kid pink stock models we ended up with a ruger american compact model with the shorter barrel and stock.
She Shot about 500 rounds over the course of a few weekends with open sights and she was pretty consistent on the target. Then I installed a rimfire rifle scope and zeroed it as best I could. I'm not a frequent shooter but I do get the basic concepts. This is sort of like the blind leading the blind here since I didn't grow up shooting and don't hunt.
Last time out we bought the "battleship game" targets. That was a nice fun game to use. Kept her interest and she beat me by one shoot which boosted her confidence and gave her some good bragging rights. And no, I didn't let her win.
My question. How can I be as sure as possible that the scope is accurate/zeroed and the ammo we are using isn't causing some of the misses? We are using sandbags on the front but holding the butt of the gun. It sure seems like we should be able to hit the 3/4 inch or so circle on the target everytime at 25 yards.
Am I expecting too much out of a regular (non target Grade) rimfire rifle? Is the cheap bulk ammo just not that accurate? Yes, it could certainly be our technique, skills and inexperience. Which is really the question as we would like to work on those things but I want to eliminate the other variables first.
Ideas?
Thanks
My daughter (10) showed a lot of interest in shooting after a brief 22 shooting experience at a camp. After searching for a decent gun for a while and ruling out all the short, kid pink stock models we ended up with a ruger american compact model with the shorter barrel and stock.
She Shot about 500 rounds over the course of a few weekends with open sights and she was pretty consistent on the target. Then I installed a rimfire rifle scope and zeroed it as best I could. I'm not a frequent shooter but I do get the basic concepts. This is sort of like the blind leading the blind here since I didn't grow up shooting and don't hunt.
Last time out we bought the "battleship game" targets. That was a nice fun game to use. Kept her interest and she beat me by one shoot which boosted her confidence and gave her some good bragging rights. And no, I didn't let her win.
My question. How can I be as sure as possible that the scope is accurate/zeroed and the ammo we are using isn't causing some of the misses? We are using sandbags on the front but holding the butt of the gun. It sure seems like we should be able to hit the 3/4 inch or so circle on the target everytime at 25 yards.
Am I expecting too much out of a regular (non target Grade) rimfire rifle? Is the cheap bulk ammo just not that accurate? Yes, it could certainly be our technique, skills and inexperience. Which is really the question as we would like to work on those things but I want to eliminate the other variables first.
Ideas?
Thanks