Author Topic: How to win a target shooting challenge  (Read 764 times)

Offline Babalonian

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Re: How to win a target shooting challenge
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2013, 07:35:43 PM »
Looked fun, I love can-plinkin trips into the woods.

When I was a youngin (16/17 yo) and teaching shooting/safety on ranges to even younger kids (12-16), the two things every dumb oscar would say (was only a couple of them each year of ~200 total for the cources and ~500 other kids just free shooting in spare open-range time) before I inspected and kicked them off the range was "I know what I'm doing" AND "It's not loaded".  Given whatever the situation was that got my attention on you, just one of those responces alone wouldn't rub me the wrong way, and be an invitation for some tutoring/lesson giving on the spot to them or everyone in the group. 

But when I would catch them doing something stupid, having a smart mouth, and then ontop of it be lyeing to me (intentional or not)... If they were there to just free-shoot - sorry kid, best lesson here is for me to kick ya off this year and hope you come back willing to listen and learn from the rangemasters next year.  If they were in one of our cources, we'd have them sit off by themselves for a few minutes before having a long talk with them.  Depending how that chat went, you could be back shooting with your cource that morning or wish you had given up shooting at our range for a year by the time we were done useing you as an example at the safety lecture infront of that afternoon's turnout for the free-shoot (although, if you prooved to be one of our "most improoved", we'd reward you by inviting you to shoot afterhours when us rangemasters got to freeshoot and brought out the larger guns).

10 outa 10 with the shotgun btw.  :aok
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