I gave him a few more
pointers and demonstrated to him how to take a shot with the Armscor 14Y, a
bolt action, magazine fed, youth model rifle in .22LR, that I had brought
along. He must think I am on heck of a good shot because luckily it hit dead
center of the bull’s-eye, granted though the target was only at about 10 yards
out. I them loaded up a mag for him, to show him how to do, and he got to
shooting. His first shot was center target horizontally and a bit high
vertically but right in the 6 inch bull’s-eye. It was all pretty good after that,
first shooting at the large bull’s-eye target, then pasting a similarly sized
Shoot N' See target over the center of that, then sticking a woodchuck color
reactive target over that one. I am guessing he shot up about 10 magazines full
of ammo, so about 60 rounds over the course of an hour and fifteen or thirty
minutes when I asked if he wanted to shoot a full sized 22 rifle (meaning my
Marlin 25MN in .22WMR).
That was the second time today that I was surprised, this time because he told me that he had had enough. I tried to persuade him to shoot the Marlin, telling him it was a bigger bullet and the rifle was scoped and whatever but I did not push it. We wound up cleaning up our point and getting out of there because he said it was enough for the day. While he told me he had enjoyed it, he did not seem all that enthused, even though he had shot well. I praised him for his good shooting and for having done it all safely. I was happiest that he had done it safely and let him know it. I was wondering what was up, with his kind of blah attitude, until my sister told me he said he wanted to do it again. I guess he was just getting tired but really had enjoyed himself. That sure made me feel good because it meant that another shooter had joined our ranks.
All the best,
Glenn B
