Well, the wife and I finally got to go trap shooting yesterday for her first trip out.
Cold as all get out over at PGC, but very few people there when we arrived at 10am. The one other group that was there was kind enough to go over to the other open range while I gave my beloved a beginner's lesson a la Dave McCracken.
I brought the 870 as well as the Mossie 500, though I only brought the 500 to have Larry in the shop look at it to make sure I had reassembled it correctly (just didn't "feel" right, though Larry said it was OK).
The wife rented one of the Beretta single shots and I set her up with some of the Winchester AA 26 gram #8 shells (boy they are reaaallllly light loads, hardly a peep out of them).
She did one round by herself with me manually firing the birds and managed to get two clays.
Then we shot two rounds together with her getting as many as 6....a couple were complete dust
Then two other gents showed up...one seemed like a beginner. Beloved wife held her own until the last half of the round when the two fellas started hooking up and really busting clays. She was a little worn out on the 4th round as she was now using the Wally World Federals with 1 1/8 ounce #8 shot. I ran out of the light loads....whoops
I'm happy to say I got as many as 21 in my 3 rounds but it was good to see my little wife handling that shotgun with relative comfort. She can regularly outshoot me with a .22 pistol thanks to copious amounts of practice courtesy of Uncle Sam...at least I'm still better at something (for now anyway!)
Good time had by all...
Cold as all get out over at PGC, but very few people there when we arrived at 10am. The one other group that was there was kind enough to go over to the other open range while I gave my beloved a beginner's lesson a la Dave McCracken.
I brought the 870 as well as the Mossie 500, though I only brought the 500 to have Larry in the shop look at it to make sure I had reassembled it correctly (just didn't "feel" right, though Larry said it was OK).
The wife rented one of the Beretta single shots and I set her up with some of the Winchester AA 26 gram #8 shells (boy they are reaaallllly light loads, hardly a peep out of them).
She did one round by herself with me manually firing the birds and managed to get two clays.
Then we shot two rounds together with her getting as many as 6....a couple were complete dust
Then two other gents showed up...one seemed like a beginner. Beloved wife held her own until the last half of the round when the two fellas started hooking up and really busting clays. She was a little worn out on the 4th round as she was now using the Wally World Federals with 1 1/8 ounce #8 shot. I ran out of the light loads....whoops
I'm happy to say I got as many as 21 in my 3 rounds but it was good to see my little wife handling that shotgun with relative comfort. She can regularly outshoot me with a .22 pistol thanks to copious amounts of practice courtesy of Uncle Sam...at least I'm still better at something (for now anyway!)
Good time had by all...
