A great day at the range

[Sam]

Sunday I took my godchildren and their mom to the range for some fun, dad had to work :(

Outside of popping a few .22LR out of their Ruger 10/22 at hunting land with their dad, they've never shot extensively at a formal range.

I used IDPA targets as backboards and stuck NRA bullseyes on them for aiming points.

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Started them off with their girly 10/22 from make shift shooting bench. The regular bench was too high for them.

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Then we're off to more exotic stuff. I installed the Ciener .22LR conversion kit in the LMT 10.5". It ran like a champ, I've never used it in this gun, only in the 16" rifle.

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Everybody got a kick out of the black SBR and T-1, they've never seen anything like it. Mom and dad has a basic 16" Rock River Carbine that I helped them purchase from ADCO :).

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The kids were supervised at all times, despite the pictures. I cropped the pictures, either myself or their mom was a foot or two behind them.

Mom enjoyed the AAC Pilot suppressed Ruger with the Tac Sol upper.

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The 13 year old dry firing the Beretta Vertec G with TLR-1 light. She refused to live fire it.

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[rat31465]

One of my favorite things in the world is helping a child learn how to handle firearms in a responsible manner. We need to see more of these kinds of posts as it can on benefit all shooters.
Great post and keep up the good work.

[iroc_dis]

Nice, looks like you guys had a lot of fun. Hopefully in a few years when my nieces and nephews get old enough I'll be able to do something similar

[lindertw]

great job Sam, looks like you had lots of fun! If the kids keep with it, have them try for their Junior USA Shooting Team rifle patch (http://www.nssf.org/JRUSA/) :cool:

[Sam]

Thanks.

I started them out at 10 yards just to see where they were hitting with the Ruger 10/22. They all could shoot groups the size of a peanut butter jar lid :) or smaller.
We then moved to 15 then 18 yds. They 13 y.o. preferred shooting offhand standing while the 11 and 8 y.o. shot from the chair. They kept most of their shots within the 6" diameter bull. I made them take turns shooting 10 shots groups.

By the end of the day, we pulled the bullseyes off the IDPA targets revealing their results. 90% of their shots were within the -0 area.

They had a great time and that's what the afternoon was about.

The 8 y.o. asked, "is obama going to take out guns? i don't want him to take out guns!" That was precious.