Took my two nephews and my brother-in-law out shooting yesterday. My BIL has not shot in years and my nephews, 13 and 15, have never fired a gun. I took out my Remington 581L (left hand bolt action), my Marlin 60 and my SIG Mosquito and my BIL brought a S&W Model 22.
First I fired the Marlin, as I had just finished doing an extensive cleaning. Turns out I need to clean it some more and replace a few parts, like the feed ramp and the mag spring. Luckily they seem to be readily available and not too expensive. So that took us down to 1 rifle, and it being left handed.
There was a gentleman next to me firing one of those Kimber target rifles from CMP. He saw I was having trouble and had taken the Marlin out of service for the day and he got up from his bench and left. He came back a couple of minutes later with a 10/22 and a really nice, target grade bolt action (right handed) that he loaned me for my nephews to shoot. They really enjoyed that. The gentleman also had me shoot his Kimber, and that was amazing. He had it in a shooting vice and I put 3 rounds into the same hole at 50 yards. I almost felt like I was cheating. I am used to using open sights and seldom even use sand bags and here I am with a shooting vice and a scope that made it seem like I was right at the target.
We put the rifles away and got out the S&W and the SIG and shot them for a while. I was more concerned with them shooting them safely than accurately. The gentleman shooting next to me was a big help in that. The 15 year old nephew kept pointing the muzzle at almost a 90 degree angle to the range when he would remove the mag from the SIG. Each time I corrected him and he would fix it, but the next time he would do it again. The gentleman came over and asked if he could speak to my nephew and I said sure. He said pretty much the same thing, but I think because my nephew didn't know him he listened. After that the muzzle was always down range.
The only bad thing was when I got out my M1 Carbine and shot the C&R target for August. I was in a hurry and my target showed it, but I will post in C&R about that.
All in all it was a pretty good day. But any day at the range is a good day at the range.
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