Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Competition
I firmly believe that if my kids were given a bowling ball and a feather they would figure out some way to compete with each other. Their latest thing is to shoot for score with whatever kind of firearms we happen to have at the range, with the loser having to clean all of the guns used that day. The competition is close enough that it is always interesting.
Last Sunday we had to take a load of clay targets out to the range, while we were there we had to make sure that the backstop would still retain lead. We've been spending quite a bit of time working with shotguns lately, so the kids wanted to change things up and do some rifle shooting. To keep the ammo cost down we left the AR-15's at home and brought 3 Ruger 10-22's instead. After a few hours of practice and instruction, the "who cleans the guns challenge" came out. Ten shots, prone, 100 yard NRA standard targets, low score does the cleaning.
The scores -
Kathy 90 x 1X
Nathan 90 x 3X
Dad 99 x 7X
I haven't had to clean any guns (other than my carry weapons, but that's a different story) for quite a while, but it looks like my 'no cleaning' days may end soon. Those darn kids are getting too good. I'm going to have to make the courses of fire more challenging - soon it'll be 600 yards, standing, iron sights. Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
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