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11 years 4 months ago #28031
by Sharkey
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I find there are many good things about owning air rifles. Skunks and whatnot prowling about always need a little urging to get out and stay out and when they remember the pain of a 600fps pellet pistol shooting them in the ass, they tend to look for scroungings elsewhere.
Fun with the family. We'll set up some of those spinning steel gong targets you get on Amazon and sit at 2 different picnic tables and everyone will shoot an afternoon away which tends to get the pressure off of me when I'm going to the range with the big stuff.
Practice aiming, gaining site picture and taking care of a scope and/or optics. Since I have 3X9 scopes on our air rifles, my sons are learning that banging there scopes DOES do them harm and if you don't take care of them and treat them gently, you can't hit a thing when you need to and re-zeroing every other trip aggravates the crap out of Daddy...lol
My oldest son (10) went to the range with me just last weekend and with a little extra padding in his shoulder, took on the AR10 and was getting solid head shots are 100 yards and was hitting the 10 inch circle targets at 200 even though he is not quite bit enough to be able to settle into a stable position. I even had 3 sandbags under his butt at the bench just so he could gain the target from the benches...
I have always seen merit in owning big and small stuff from fishing equipment, to knives and right down to our firearms so I liked the article and although I prefer the Stoeger X50 over the gamo, these are still some quality rifles he's talking about. Gamo has been around a long time and have done well in this niche.
Good article A.H. and thanks for bringing him in M.
I look forward to another installment... :thumbs:
Fun with the family. We'll set up some of those spinning steel gong targets you get on Amazon and sit at 2 different picnic tables and everyone will shoot an afternoon away which tends to get the pressure off of me when I'm going to the range with the big stuff.
Practice aiming, gaining site picture and taking care of a scope and/or optics. Since I have 3X9 scopes on our air rifles, my sons are learning that banging there scopes DOES do them harm and if you don't take care of them and treat them gently, you can't hit a thing when you need to and re-zeroing every other trip aggravates the crap out of Daddy...lol
My oldest son (10) went to the range with me just last weekend and with a little extra padding in his shoulder, took on the AR10 and was getting solid head shots are 100 yards and was hitting the 10 inch circle targets at 200 even though he is not quite bit enough to be able to settle into a stable position. I even had 3 sandbags under his butt at the bench just so he could gain the target from the benches...
I have always seen merit in owning big and small stuff from fishing equipment, to knives and right down to our firearms so I liked the article and although I prefer the Stoeger X50 over the gamo, these are still some quality rifles he's talking about. Gamo has been around a long time and have done well in this niche.
Good article A.H. and thanks for bringing him in M.
I look forward to another installment... :thumbs:
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