Grandson's very good start with new rifle

[Blackfeet]

Finally had the grandson over for a couple of hours today to shoot his new Bobcat that I gave him for Christmas. We started with the fundamentals of shooting muzzleloaders, then had him make up some pre-measured charges, showed him how to mark his ramrod with tape and why we did this. We only had a short time to shoot so I set him up at only 50 ft on my smallbore frame and he shot only offhand with 55 grs of FFg. He shot a five shot group that favored the left. We drifted the sight and he shot the 6 shot target shown and it seemed that the aiming point was too large so I set up a smallbore bull for his last shot. I guess that this certainly proves the aim small, miss small adage. He will be shooting a target for the winter shoot........can I have him shoot mine as well?
Oh yeah, he also learned the Blackfeet cleaning method and did a very good job of it
Some evening this week he wants to do a little casting...........

[William]

Outstanding!

[Dogshirt]

Cool! 

[Watauga]

Wonderful!
Looks like a Nice young man too!
He would make an Excellent Scout too!

[flintboomer]

Nice work, and it is always good when we can get the young ones started right.

[pilgrim]

           

[Blackfeet]

Thanks folks, I will pass this along. I told him about this site and how he can learn a lot here. I grilled him on what he had read online and for the most part there wasn't much to unteach him
Watauga, you are right, I also think that he would be a great scout but the problem is getting him away from his other activities. He is into football, hockey, baseball, fishing year round, just started hunting with me the last two years. My brothers and his cousins are leading him astray with white water kayaking, mountianeering and caving. We managed to pack him away to conservation camp  for two weeks last summer and now he wants to do a weekend trek using just a compass and map.(I will have to figure out how to silence the beeps on my GPS ). My son, who also loves all this stuff, is forced to be a workaholic right now so the clan has stolen the kid and we hope to have him truely corrupted by the time we have to return him and steal the next two or three. It is safe to say that there is a pretty good layer of dust on his Xbox. My problem is that I am afeared that I will not be able to keep up. Only seven more to go..............

The ice here is thin so I hope to get him to myself for a while. We have been seeing a lot of bunny tracks out back.

[DandJofAZ]

Way to go...soon to have a Mongrel 45 for my lefty grandson....shooting will follow next time we can get together.....

Doug

[crazell]

That's awesome Blackfeet!! Will be a great memory to share.

[Hanshi]

Marksmanship seems to run in your family, Blackfeet. 

[Blackfeet]

Marksmanship seems to run in your family, Blackfeet. 

Thanks Hanshi, I can honestly say they get it mostly from my wife. She is the natural, I have to work at it.

Doug, I look forward to the pictures

Crazell, you are right about that. He took the pictures to school to show everyone