Shooting with the Grandson!

The grandson came over this AM. He wanted to shoot some of the airguns. He shot my KAM P12 (pre SPA, Aretmis, Snowpeak) whe he was 10 and hasn't asked about it since. He'll be 14 in a couple of months. I think he'll be back for more shooting a lot sooner this time. The only one that was sighted in was my AEA HP Carbine. I was moving scopes around on some of the others and haven't sighted them in yet.

We carried a small folding table to the back yard and I put a few extra large pieces of 3/4" plywood up just in case. LOL So we had a 1/2" sheet, 2 3/4" sheets, a 3/4" wood fence, then a concrete block wall about 10' behind that. I had bought a cheap rest several months ago and assembled it, but never shot off of it. We had to shim the rear up with a 4X4 to get the height right, so not extremely stable but better than shooting sticks or a camera tripod.

I gave him a quick refresher about gun safety, and checked the zero to make sure it was still on target. Then I let him empty the magazine. Then, I showed him how to re-load the magazine, and insert it in the gun. He shot the first 3 magazines, and I tried to coach him a little on squeezing the shot instead of jerking or pulling the trigger. He shot the center, 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock, and I shot the 3 o'clock position. Then we put up another target and he was shooting it until Granny came out and told us the pizza was ready.

For a 6# trigger pull and only his second time shooting he did a great job, especially if you take out the flyers when he was jerking the trigger. On the second target there were lots of flyers. The gun had dropped pretty low on pressure and it was causing "double fire" issues after the 5th magazine. I was happy with the accuracy of the cheap Vortex.Strike 24.7gr .25 pellets. I know the gun is more accurate with other pellets but use these for plinking, and some pesting.

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Good on you!! My Grandson is too young. Just turned 1 so that will have to wait for me.
Who cares if he shot tight groups? He was sending it down range and as long as he enjoyed it enough to come back the skills can be developed as he continues.
Yeah, 1 is a little young. I had my first BBgun when I was 3 though. Yeah, wasn't worried too much about the groups. Just wanted him to concentrate on SAFETY #1, then was encouraging him not to develop bad habits, like jerking the trigger.
 
Good for you custom cutter. I took my nine year old grandson calling coyotes yesterday. No coyotes but called in seven deer he was pumped. We all need to take a kid shooting and hunting.
Sounds like a great time. I'm surprised that more people don't try calling animals. Everything from squirrels to elk will come to a call. LOL
 
What a blessing it is to take your grandchildren to the range and shoot. I took all five of mine, 4 boys and on girl, and they all had fun. They are all grown now and still have interest in shooting to some degree. Some more than others, but I'm glad I had a chance to do this. I taught their mothers to shoot and they do well too.