It hits broken clay targets laying on the berm so easy it's boring
Good to know that someone went and took care of the mess of clays I left on the berm... I only broke 3 out of the 15 or so that I put up there yesterday with pistols. It was a bit of an off day for me shooting at the clays... I kept hitting all around the edges of them yesterday. That drives me crazy when I do that and can't hit them.
I did get to pass on a little bit of what I have learned in the past few months. There was a kid at the range (Maybe 10 or 11 years old) with his dad and they were shooting two Mosin Nagants. It was the kid's second time shooting, and he was SOOOOOO bored. They would take 5 shots, and then his dad would spend 10 minutes wiping the guns down and cleaning them out, then repeat the process. The kid had a Ruger 10/22 that he wanted to shoot, but his dad kept telling him to quit being a wuss and to shoot the Mosins, but I don't think the problem was that he wasn't enjoying shooting the Mosins, he was just bored with all the cleaning! His dad told me that he was also new to shooting and this was his second time on the range too, so I guess they are kind of trying to learn to shoot together, but without anyone to show them how.
The kid was asking me about my guns and he looked interested in shooting them, so I invited him to shoot my pistols (with the dad's permission of course). He told me that his dad had let him shoot his .38 Special before, but when I saw him pick up the pistol and shoot, it was obvious that he hadn't been taught how to hold a pistol. He stood with his feet together, leaning back, was shooting one handed, and shooting all over the place. So I taught him the little bit I have learned about how to stand and showed him how to put his second hand on the gun. By the end of it all, he was putting shots on the paper at least using my Ruger Mark III, and he had a blast with the XD. It was kind of fun teaching a kid to shoot and I see why all the mom's and dad's on this forum have fun teaching their kids. Hopefully it will keep this kid interested in shooting, otherwise he'll just think shooting is boring if he is just mostly watching his dad clean for so much of the time.
I'm almost done with Spring classes and then I'll be ready to meet up again with Nitesite. I'll also be setting up my reloading press soon and I am looking forward to shooting a couple hundred rounds without breaking the bank every time I go out there.