Grandson's first shoot

[Mike.357]

Most of you know this but a quick review anyway.

I bought my grandson a rifle this week. Today I took him out in the woods to my little range and we had a shoot.

I went over safety rules with him and made him understand that the gun is always loaded and finger off the trigger. we did this before leavin the house. I know there are 4 rules but those two and supervision are good for today. I went over 5 year old nomenclature with him. He seemed ready so we loaded up the golf cart and went on out.

He did good. Took a little bit of coaching and a lot of patience at first.

It was hard for him to understand using the peep sight. It would have been very hard for him without the bipod. (I knew there was a reason I picked it up at the gunshow last week.) But after a half dozen shots it seemed to click a little bit for him. He was bored shooting paper as I thought he would be. But I thought it important to try paper first so I could try to teach him sighting the shot. Once we moved on to re-active type targets he fell in love with it. I am guessing we shot for near four hours. I lost track of how many shots he took. Well over 150 I am sure. We would still be out there if not for mosquitos attacking. Also we got the first tick of the season. Yeck I hate them things.

Here are two pic I took. One of him sitting and lining up the shot. And the second his smiling puss after he blasted a hole in a can of creamed corn. He made me set the can back up for the pic. We also shot a couple of rubber gloves filled with flour a can of "sketti" O's, and a couple of two liter bottles filled with water. He loved the gloves and tin cans the best. The cans work good as they dance around a bit even after they have been shot a few times.

I am guessing he will want to try again tomorrow. If so I am going to work to try to get him holding the rifle more across his body instead of positioned as he was today. If I do that I think his left hand should reach the forestock and it will force his cheek up on the buttstock a little more and help line his eyes up to the sight. But however he wants to roll will work for me.

Edited April 26, 2008 by Mike.357

[Guest Boomhower]

That's awesome Mike. You could have just posted the pictures and we would have known that he had a good time.

[DWARREN123]

Good bonding experience. He looks happy.

[Fallguy]

Looks like a good times...

[CatsEye]

Thats great. Looks like he had a great time. I love to see the young shooters.

[TripleDigitRide]

Very nice!

Congrats!

[Guest jackdog]

now that is one happy young fellow, thanks for the pictures there awesome

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Good bonding experience. He looks happy.

+1

Very cool.

[Mark@Sea]

Great smile, great to see 'finger off the trigger', looks like a win! He'll grow into that stock quicker'n anything.

Thanks, Mike, for keepin' our 2A alive!

[Guest dotsun]

He'll remember that for the rest of his life, Mike.

[R1100R]

Now that's a happy camper. What make is the rifle? I have been looking for

my children. There are a lot of youth rifles out there. I was surprised by all the

makes.

[Guest Phantom6]

Man, what a happy kid. He will certainly remember that for the rest of his life. So will you. Way to go grand pa. Thanks for the pics.

[Mike.357]

The rifle is a Savage Cub MINI Youth.

It is a little heavy for him today, hence the need for the bipod, but it ought to fit for a few years. The gun shoots great. Watch on some of the little kid models, they are not made real well. Some of them have key locks on the stock and and have a cocker that must be pulled to enable the rifle to fire.

This one operates exactly like an adult version Savage Rifle. It is also slotted to hold a rimfire scope. I prefer the peep sight. I wish my Savage had one. Once the boy gets the gist of the peeper I will get him a small scope.

[R1100R]

It's funny. I have just been looking on link at a cub-t in pink. But I think the mini

cub is the ticket. Thanks

[Mike.357]

that mini T is gonna run a little bit more. I looked at the Mini T but never gave it serious consideration really.

One of the big reasons I went with Savage is that I have one of their rimfire rifles so I know the quality firsthand.

[towerclimber37]

he's great! you're an excellent coach mike!

[andersmg]

Great times with the young ones teaching them to enjoy something we have all been loving for most of our lives! Looks like he was probably having almost as much fun as you!