Dave McCracken
Moderator In Memoriam
is a bad thing. Or maybe not.
Here's the deal. And we can use some help.
The Junior Shooter Program at PGC( My local range) has been ongoing for a while. It started with 5 kids, and has grown.
Boy, has it grown!
The program is on Saturday morns. The kids get 50 shells, use of a shotgun if they didn't bring one, and reasonable good instruction. Rental shotguns are Berettas, both autos and O/Us. Personal shotguns run strong on 20 gauge pumpguns, some of which actually fit the users.
Skeet, Trap or Sporting Clays?
Yes. All of them, though it's run heavy on SC stations while the trap and skeet ranges there are renovated.
The kids, Bless them, are from 10 to 17 years in age and vary as much in size. A couple of the pre-pubescents are pixies.
Bob Willard runs the show, and I help a little along with one of the Dads. His name is Gerry and deserves a medal. Bob deserves a marble statue in a public place.
At the present time, all new kids go through a one day Learn To Shoot class run by a certified NSCA Level II instructor, a nice guy named Rhys Arthur. That gets things started and then we get them.
Last week we started with 18 kids. Then, the management added five more, brand new from the LTS program.
We had split the group already, with Bob taking one group while Gerry and I the other. When the five showed up, they had an employee along to keep things safe. While a shooter, he's not an instructor.
We're unpaid, though there are benefits. The rush I get when observing 80 lbs of determination holding a bargain bin pump gun while watching where the clay will appear with the look of a good barn cat watching a hot mousehole is a very good feeling.
And seeing her powder a gnarly pair many adults would cuss over is as much fun as doing it myself.
Anyway, this is what I want to throw out for discussion.
Any of us have much experience with teaching kids to shoot?
How do we handle large groups?
Thanks.....
Here's the deal. And we can use some help.
The Junior Shooter Program at PGC( My local range) has been ongoing for a while. It started with 5 kids, and has grown.
Boy, has it grown!
The program is on Saturday morns. The kids get 50 shells, use of a shotgun if they didn't bring one, and reasonable good instruction. Rental shotguns are Berettas, both autos and O/Us. Personal shotguns run strong on 20 gauge pumpguns, some of which actually fit the users.
Skeet, Trap or Sporting Clays?
Yes. All of them, though it's run heavy on SC stations while the trap and skeet ranges there are renovated.
The kids, Bless them, are from 10 to 17 years in age and vary as much in size. A couple of the pre-pubescents are pixies.
Bob Willard runs the show, and I help a little along with one of the Dads. His name is Gerry and deserves a medal. Bob deserves a marble statue in a public place.
At the present time, all new kids go through a one day Learn To Shoot class run by a certified NSCA Level II instructor, a nice guy named Rhys Arthur. That gets things started and then we get them.
Last week we started with 18 kids. Then, the management added five more, brand new from the LTS program.
We had split the group already, with Bob taking one group while Gerry and I the other. When the five showed up, they had an employee along to keep things safe. While a shooter, he's not an instructor.
We're unpaid, though there are benefits. The rush I get when observing 80 lbs of determination holding a bargain bin pump gun while watching where the clay will appear with the look of a good barn cat watching a hot mousehole is a very good feeling.
And seeing her powder a gnarly pair many adults would cuss over is as much fun as doing it myself.
Anyway, this is what I want to throw out for discussion.
Any of us have much experience with teaching kids to shoot?
How do we handle large groups?
Thanks.....