41magsnub
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This was great. A son of a friend of mine from way back when just moved to Missoula and had never shot a gun before other than a BB gun once. I finally convinced him to head to the range with me today. Started him out on my 10/22 at 50' and got him settled down where he could bullseye out the target every time. At this time he started having a blast.
Then we moved over to the pistol range and I had him shooting my .22 single six at 15 feet. Initially he was doing well to get one round on the paper. Worked on him until he could get a somewhat decent grouping.
I was ready to call that a successful trip, but he wanted to keep going so I had him try my security six with .38 wadcutters, again at first he was all over the board. 100 some odd rounds later he finally did a six shot string and placed all 6 rounds inside a gopher's head (targetz fun targets) from 20 feet. I doubt he could do it again on a bet, but I let it slide At this point we called it a trip and he saved that last target.
At the end of the trip we took a cruise to a local gun store and picked up a nice used GP100, a cheap nylon holster as a starter, and a couple of boxes of .38 specials.
Man it is fun to initiate somebody into the club!
Then we moved over to the pistol range and I had him shooting my .22 single six at 15 feet. Initially he was doing well to get one round on the paper. Worked on him until he could get a somewhat decent grouping.
I was ready to call that a successful trip, but he wanted to keep going so I had him try my security six with .38 wadcutters, again at first he was all over the board. 100 some odd rounds later he finally did a six shot string and placed all 6 rounds inside a gopher's head (targetz fun targets) from 20 feet. I doubt he could do it again on a bet, but I let it slide At this point we called it a trip and he saved that last target.
At the end of the trip we took a cruise to a local gun store and picked up a nice used GP100, a cheap nylon holster as a starter, and a couple of boxes of .38 specials.
Man it is fun to initiate somebody into the club!