400 BB's? Wait that's an assault BB gun.......
I got my first gun today!!!!!!
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400 BB's? Wait that's an assault BB gun.......
That's why I got it for him. I was afraid it may be banned by the time he's 7.
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Better stock up last time I was at Walmart I think they only had one box off BB's left
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Anyone seen the neighbors cat?
Such a long loveable journey this has been this thing called fatherhood.
I remember this thread this morning so I'm gonna update it with some videos of things we did yesterday.
This is called EU/ED, Elbow Up Elbow Down TF, Threat Focused shooting. This position is a 1/2 hip with your elbow locked into your hip for control. He's quick.
Same TF style but from what we'd call a 3/4 position, arm slightly extended.
These are instinctive types of shooting done without sights. Reactive as always in nature. Still a ways to go but even at these speeds many a bad guy would fall.
Engaging multiples with a specific reload required. You had 2 mags each with 3rnds. Goal was to put 2 on each of the 3 BGs. No wrong way just work thru it. That wick flick..haha. We need to get him moving though. If you're not shooting you're moving and if you're not doing either take cover. Don't stand there which many people did yesterday. It'll come. Get OFF that X.
Anyway how cool it is to see him grow up and progress from just a kid with a BB gun.
I remember this thread this morning so I'm gonna update it with some videos of things we did yesterday.
This is called EU/ED, Elbow Up Elbow Down TF, Threat Focused shooting. This position is a 1/2 hip with your elbow locked into your hip for control. He's quick.
Same TF style but from what we'd call a 3/4 position, arm slightly extended.
These are instinctive types of shooting done without sights. Reactive as always in nature. Still a ways to go but even at these speeds many a bad guy would fall.
Engaging multiples with a specific reload required. You had 2 mags each with 3rnds. Goal was to put 2 on each of the 3 BGs. No wrong way just work thru it. That wick flick..haha. We need to get him moving though. If you're not shooting you're moving and if you're not doing either take cover. Don't stand there which many people did yesterday. It'll come. Get OFF that X.
Anyway how cool it is to see him grow up and progress from just a kid with a BB gun.
…”These are instinctive types of shooting done without sights.”
It’s called point shooting and defensively speaking, that’s exactly how most shooting is accomplished. Bullseye target shooting has its place and benefits but point shooting (well) is what’s going to save your life. I also got my daughter and son into shooting. Bought her a S&W Airweight which uses .38 special +P JHP defensive rounds and gave my son my S&W M-39 pistol. It shoots 115g JHPs perfectly. My daughter shoots my Colt 1911 about as good as I do, with either hand. I happen to be a right hand shooter but with my left eye. How bout you? Of course that’s for target shooting not point shooting where both eyes are on target.
It’s called point shooting and defensively speaking, that’s exactly how most shooting is accomplished. Bullseye target shooting has its place and benefits but point shooting (well) is what’s going to save your life. I also got my daughter and son into shooting. Bought her a S&W Airweight which uses .38 special +P JHP defensive rounds and gave my son my S&W M-39 pistol. It shoots 115g JHPs perfectly. My daughter shoots my Colt 1911 about as good as I do, with either hand. I happen to be a right hand shooter but with my left eye. How bout you? Of course that’s for target shooting not point shooting where both eyes are on target.
It is WWII Fairbairn/Sykes point shooting yes. Proven on the streets of Shanghai in the 30s and then later during WWII and as you say to this day. Place and time for all but this is as you say what most situations that threaten your life could demand.
With guns and many others things except for writing and throwing a baseball I'm ambidextrous. I can draw and shoot, reload or whatever from either side and with either hand. Rifles the same. What gets many people is they get in the habit of loading pistol mags one way using a certain hand to hold the round and the other the mag. Flip it up and see if you can load a pistol mag opposite of what you normally do. It's hard. Unless you practice it.
This has come from being a natural lefty and just getting tired of seeking left handed guns and gear forty years ago. I converted and forced myself to learn 'weak hand' which to me is righty. Now I can holster up, draw and shoot same either side. Slightly quicker lefty with a revolver.
It's quite a thing to see your kids grow up and set themselves up to take over from our generation.....
I taught both my boys how to shoot and took them to the range often when they were young....I'd set up jungle lanes for them to keep them interested...
We have to take a 2 day course here to get our firearm possession certificate and both boys actually called and thanked me for showing them about firearms because they looked like rockstars on their respective courses....
Then they both joined the military-one going in the air force and the other into the artillery.....both achieved marksman status in basic training. The younger guy in the artillery got to go much farther in weapon training though......
I too can shoot accurately with both hands with pretty much any weapon....we were taught this in the special forces as in many cases, it doesn't come naturally. It came in handy quite a few times when under cover in a firefight.
One of my brothers was ambi. He did most things right handed but wrote, beautifully, almost calligraphy style left handed but watching him hand write in cursive, his hand looked upside down sort of, like he was writing backwards. You know, most rightys kind of slant to the right when they write but my brother’s lefty style also slanted to the right. Was weird.
Years ago I heard a story about a famous 20th century handgun expert, Jeff Cooper or someone of his era. In a Mexican bar somewhere south, he saw six armed bad guys rush in and took all of them out with one shot each with his .45 Colt 1911 point shooting. Most people go to the range and try to hit the center with every shot while aiming the best they can. Well that’s good however, practicing quick point shooting is what could save a life. And as the first two videos show, the arm does not have to be fully extended either.
I got a Daisy when I was 8-9 but it was a pump. Held only 50 BBs and didn’t rattle when it was tipped like the 500 BBs in the lever actions did. Pretty accurate for a BB rifle.
Gotta have the compass in the stock or else Ralphie won't want it.
When I was 10 I had a lever action Marlin .22 long rifle I carried pretty much everywhere on our farm...
Our farm house had these gigantic cupboards in the kitchen and one was for our rifles/shotguns....(and ammo), my dad allotted me a box of 50 rounds-the ones that came in the plastic container with the sliding top......I used to take that and my rifle when I was out riding fence so I could take out groundhogs when I saw them....
I could only imagine this happening with most of the kids these days..........................
Our farm house had these gigantic cupboards in the kitchen and one was for our rifles/shotguns....(and ammo), my dad allotted me a box of 50 rounds-the ones that came in the plastic container with the sliding top......I used to take that and my rifle when I was out riding fence so I could take out groundhogs when I saw them....
I could only imagine this happening with most of the kids these days..........................
My first rifle was a single shot bolt operated .22. I forget what brand or what happened to it (I had four big brothers). After loading a single round and closing the bolt I still had to pull a (plunger)? at the rear of the bolt that cocked the gun. I was either a great shot or it was extremely accurate. I remember riding on the fender of a car in the dark on a dirt road and shooting rabbits. Others with semis or pumps missed over and over.
We had one like that....it was a Cooey .22.....and you had to do the same motion before shooting....
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