Wife's 1st turkey shoot.

[jmr40]

I have been trying to get her to try shooting for almost 40 years. She turns 65 next month and has fired exactly 2 rounds through a 20 ga shotgun. She carries a Sig 365 and I can get her to practice just enough that I feel somewhat comfortable with her carrying, but she has been intimidated by shotguns.

A good friend of ours, a deputy sheriff, here is battling cancer and the local Shrine club sponsored a turkey shoot to raise money. I was going and convinced her to try.

We went into the back yard and after a little coaching on how to load and chamber a round and basic etiquette around others with a gun she decided to fire one shot. The recoil didn't kill her, so when we got to the turkey shoot she fired one round. She didn't win but was thrilled she even hit the target.

She took photos of her target and started texting them to our kids and everyone else she knows. When we got home the target is now on the refrigerator. A place normally reserved for grandkids artwork.

Just thought I'd share.

 

[EIB0879]

Cool!

 

[red rick]

I got beat by a woman at our hunt club turkey shoot . We tied and us two had to have a shoot off . Believe it or not on the shoot off she only put one hole in the target and it was in the X and won . We all got a big laugh out of that .

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

She did well. Nice covering the whole target.

 

[jmr40]

I shot twice, and didn't post photos of my targets. She was shooting a 20, I was shooting a 12, both with turkey tubes, and she put more pellets on paper than I did. Just by luck I had a single pellet VERY close to center, but not quite close enough to win.

There is a lot of luck involved and you don't get to shoot your own shells so you just have to take what you get. But it was a fun time for all.