I don't have any pictures - forgot my phone - but my 11 y/o got out for a session with her 20 gauge 11-87. We've been working on slug loads for her to kill a deer this fall. She's not a fan of recoil - any of the factory offerings are a bit too much for her right now. So we're loading the Lyman "pellet" slug into AA hulls and wads with 11 gr. Unique behind it. She likes that and was drilling 2 liter bottles at 50 yds with it today. Then we swapped to the bird barrel. She's never tried hitting moving targets, so we did some talking, dry runs, dry fires on targets, then started pulling the trigger. She hit the first one out of the shoot - pretty excited - then started pulling her head to see the target. We took a break and ran over to the church for a while, then came back and tried again. She missed about a dozen, then hit her last three in a row, "hanging" the last two. When she got done she said, "Um, dad?" "Yes dear" "Those last three? I was moving the barrel and went past them a little bit before I remembered to pull the trigger. I should have missed them." "No dear, that's called leading the target and following through. Do it every time." "But my barrel wasn't pointed at the target when I pulled the trigger." So we proceeded to move into some geometry and physics lessons...we were out of ammo, so we couldn't put them to use, but she's the type of kid who will think it over and apply the lessons. She's top in her class academically and a TKD black belt. She'll get this figured out. Her goal this fall is to kill a deer and to kill a pheasant that "her" dog (my weimaraner!) Lucy points for her. I can't wait for that moment...proud dad today!!!
