I Challange You Too!

[Guest FroggyOne2]

I challange you to teach, to teach your kids competitive shooting. We were once a nation of competitive shooting on many levels, high school, collage. We have drifted away from that! It was once that schools competed against each other in intramural competition, smallbore leagues around the nation. We were almost as big on shooting sports as the Nordic nations.. but were no longer!

I challange you to become competitive in shooting sports as well, it is too bad that we have fallen to instant grativification. That so many will just sit in front of the TV and watch sports.. be part of it.. if You love and enjoy shooting, then learn to become better at it. The only way to get better at is to compete. And to pass on skills of markmenship, one has to learn it! And the only way to learn it truly, is to compete.

You don't have to spend a lot of money on a rifle to compete either.. just find a decent one that shoots good.. ie.. for smallbore, there are lots of rifles that can compete for reletively reasonable price, then it is up to you to learn to shoot it.. demand that places like Oak Ridge Sportsman Assc. have more smallbore matches. Come to one of the highpower clinics or come to a match and watch, and learn.. become active in the matches.

One of the greatest legacy of shooting sports volunteers is at Camp Perry, if it were not for all the folks that spend their vacation to volunteer at the Nationals, we would not have the Nationals anymore!

Get into F-Class.. now this is a new and fast growing sport of long range shooting, very inexpensive to get into.. but not that easy to win.. you can shoot off a rest, or a bipod, but it is not easy to win.. You must still learn what? Marksmenship!

When you do compete.. remember, you are not competing against all the others.. but yourself.. compete against yourself to become better, and with becomming better, you will beat the others.. it is up to you.. we can let the competitive shooting sports die or we can compete to make them better!

Which one do you want to see happen?

So I therefore, challange you to become competitive in shooting sports!

Frog

[Paletiger13]

Very well put

[Guest FroggyOne2]

Thank You Sir!.. When I do say something on here.. it will always be influenced by what I feel inside.. !!

[Guest ColdEspresso]

Not only to shoot but also teach them responsible firearms handling.

[Guest jackdog]

Nice post froggy.

[TGO David]

+1 for a very good post.

[Guest db99wj]

Good post.

My oldest two kids (9 and 6) attended a youth firearms class at Rangeusa here in Memphis. They learned safety, safety and more safety, gun anatomy and got to shoot a rifle, revolver and a semi automatic, all in .22lr. They had a blast and this is something we will be able to forever. I hope that this is the beginning of a life long love for shooting sports and self defense.

[Guest tlondon]

Nice post. I am trying to convince my teenage daughter to try shooting (22lr browning buckmark to start with). I keep telling her if she tries it she will love it.

[G27]

Good post.

My oldest two kids (9 and 6) attended a youth firearms class at Rangeusa here in Memphis. They learned safety, safety and more safety, gun anatomy and got to shoot a rifle, revolver and a semi automatic, all in .22lr. They had a blast and this is something we will be able to forever. I hope that this is the beginning of a life long love for shooting sports and self defense.

Awesome - I just told my wife not five minutes ago that I wanted my oldest to go through that course at RangeUSA. Was it a good experience - worth it to you?

[Guest db99wj]

Awesome - I just told my wife not five minutes ago that I wanted my oldest to go through that course at RangeUSA. Was it a good experience - worth it to you?

Absolutely, I am sure you and other parents don't have the same problem I do, but my kids....just seem to don't listen to me as much as they do other people like teachers and whatnot.....

Anyway, Kristen at the range teaches the course, is outstanding with the kids. Keeps their attention and makes it fun. My kids loved it. They require you as a parent to be there, but you are not "involved" for the most part. We did help on the range as support for the kids, safe handling, loading and unloading. My kids learned a lot and they loved to shoot. Another thing. The guns that were used were a Sig Mosquito, a revolver, a Neos, something else in a semi-auto, and the rifles were the Cricket's. They now have a pink Cricket for the girls.

So in short, you have kids, you want them to learn about guns, gun safety and get involved in shooting, take the course!

[G27]

Thanks, db - that's all I needed to hear. Kristen taught my THCP class, and while it's boring when you know the basics, she was extremely thorough and made sure everyone understood the basics.

I'm in.

[Guest gcrookston]

My step-kids had never been around firearms before I married their mother. My father was a WWII DI. I learned to shoot the right way (I think)... so did my kids.

[cknight8]

very much agreed, awesome post!

[bushfox25]

I agree excellent post