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Zee
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The boy’s training continues.
Zee
Senior MemberPosts: 27,466 Senior Member
So, yesterday’s challenge was 10 Shots @ 100yrds with a .223 Remington. Stipulation was each shot from a different position using the ATV as support. Each position needed 2 Points of Contact (no bipod or rear bag) for stability. Right (6) AND left (4) handed!!! I teach adults that can’t skin this cat as fast as The Little Man did. I am impressed. And it takes a lot. What I have trained a lifetime to figure out (fast alternate positions)...........he is learning at 13 years of age on his first try.
His training continues.
"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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I never could manage to shoot effectively left handed and am now to old and stiff to contort into most of those positions
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
I spent a lot of time cleaning up stuff my son spilled when he was younger. Now I spend a lot of time cleaning up stuff I've spilled well he laughs at my clumsiness.
He can hit a tin can at 10 yards, while moving, as he passes by the garage door opening!
The really amazing cases are often the ones who had zero prior experience before getting proper coaching and get to move on with no bad habits to correct. My first formal instruction was a DCM/CMP seminar in my early 20's. Prior to that it was figure it out however and whenever I could. A pro coach from the time he could walk? This is gonna be special.
You might do two things in the interest of his future:
1. Get him some proper schooling on clay shooting - he seems to be one of the few that have some immunity to the problems you often see crossing over between rifles and shotguns.
2. Find a youth group that can dangle a smallbore match rifle and the ISSF courses of fire in front of him and see if he bites. Learning how to stay in a kneeling position for 45 minutes is a lot easier when you're 13 than when you're 40.
There are scholarships to be had and corporate money to be found, amazing as that sounds. Way more interesting than sports with balls.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
"The Un-Tactical"