My 14-year-old son wants to become a Marine sniper. I have mixed feelings about being a sniper, but I don’t have a problem about him learning to shoot accurately. But that’s the rub, I’m mostly a pistol type of guy and don’t shoot rifles much. When I do shoot a rifle it’s for cowboy or I am shooting from a bench. I do have a few rifles (mostly inherited) a Winchester 64 (.22LR), Remington Model 34 (.22LR), a M1 carbine (Alpine), a Winchester 94(30-30) and a Marlin 1894(.357). My son likes the M1 mostly because it is military (copy) and he can shoot it fast. It is a lot of fun to shoot but only shoots about a 5-7” group a 100 yards!
I don’t feel that I am the right person to teach him the finer points of becoming a rifleman and I am thinking that a better (newer) rifle that is more accurate than the above mentioned guns (so you can’t blame the gun for inaccuracy). I am thinking along the lines of a .22LR with a decent trigger and probably peep sights and not too expensive. Do you have any suggestions of recommendations? Any ideas would be welcome.
Oh, BTW we live just outside of Los Angeles, Calif.
Thanks, CZRyan
I don’t feel that I am the right person to teach him the finer points of becoming a rifleman and I am thinking that a better (newer) rifle that is more accurate than the above mentioned guns (so you can’t blame the gun for inaccuracy). I am thinking along the lines of a .22LR with a decent trigger and probably peep sights and not too expensive. Do you have any suggestions of recommendations? Any ideas would be welcome.
Oh, BTW we live just outside of Los Angeles, Calif.
Thanks, CZRyan