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01-03-2023, 01:11 PM
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Too Young To Start Shooting
We sold the farms two years ago and purchased a house next door to your youngest. They have two dwarfs, girl and boy, now five and eight respectively. The boy, Webb, has been dying to shoot shotguns with us. I wanted to wait until he was ten. His father and I were going to Elk Creek in Owenton, Kentucky to shoot in a monthly vintage shoot and I had invited Webb to come along as our push the button trapper. Last fall's dove hunts were shot using my fathers 20 Trojan with 3/4 oz of 8's @ 1075 fps, a very effective load. I took a hand full of these shells along with a Mossberg Youth 20 pump and hid them from Webb. We came to a station Webb could stand behind the trap with a straight away. I had been harping about pulling the trigger as soon as you are on the target. JTPFT! Just Pull The F'n Trigger. His first shot was filled with trepidation as his mother had tried to deter him with tails of recoil. He broke the target as he did the next three times I let him shoot. The fifth bird he missed. He remained avid, but I feared recoil might be a factor. Sadly the video's are an invalid file.
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01-03-2023, 01:50 PM
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Harry, our youngest shot a Mossberg youth pump 20g and it pummeled her even with light reloads. I got her a Stevens O/U 28g youth, that was as bad if not worse. I do find 28g to be a sharp recoil. She's a tiny thing. Finally I got the Weatherby 20g semi auto youth gun SA08 and she can shoot and shoot and shoot and recoil isn't an issue. The best $600 I ever spent to get her to shoot with me. Plus, she loves telling the old men, "Don't know if you noticed, but you just got beat on that station by a little girl..."
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The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to Andrew Sacco For Your Post:
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