ATTABOY ! I heartily approve of your getting both you and your son instruction time. It will enhance your enjoyment of the sport, increase your comfort and safety as well.
Great decision to do that early. Enjoy the sport, I have for many years. For myself, it's much more satisfying to grind a clay target to dust than it is to search for a lost golf ball.. haha.. Grant... On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Been going to the sporting clays range regularly with the youngest, > enjoying it greatly. > > Yesterday we went on the "beginners" sporting clays range. Eight stations, > six pairs each. Everything from just about every direction including a > couple across the ground. We probably hit about 70% of the clays if not > more, which made it even more fun. > > They are having a professional instructor in on Sunday to conduct one on > one "Intro to sporting clays" training, so I signed us up for it. Things > like determining your dominant eye, tracking targets, stance, etc. This > will be good for us since we've never had formal training, and if we learn > one or two things it will definitely be a plus. > > We have been using rental guns from the range lately, and boy, what a > difference it has made. > > We've been shooting a 12 gauge Beretta 390 lately. Nice gun, minimal > recoil, easy to sight with. The latest one we used had a thumb lever for > releasing the bolt after you load a shell in the chamber. Nice aftermarket > add on. > > Last weekend we took a beginning shooter's course at a local range. It > consisted of about 90 minutes of classroom instruction on safety and gun > handling, then another 90 minutes on the range with an instructor running > us through drills on handling, safety, loading, dealing with problems, and > sighting. We used a .22 semiautomatic pistol, whose brand I didn't catch. > > This went well and gave us a level of comfort I don't think either of us > had up to this point, not having had formal handgun training, either. > > I think it was discussed previously that a good first pistol for the boy > might be a Ruger Mark III. it may have been mentioned, but I was wondering > if the Ruger 22/45 might be a good choice to start with since it has the > same characteristics of a .45, too. > > Again, thanks to all for your comments, opinions and suggestions - it has > been most helpful! > > Dan > > > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
