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I was able to do some coaching this week with a 8 year old boy shooting distance with a Savage 6.5-284 Rifle (factory 9T barrel), 3-12 Huskemaw scope, and MAC brake.
Chuck McIntosh was helping coach some as well.
We ended up the day with the young man making multiple connections at 1440 yards.
Very proud of this young man. He also fired a suppressed 300 RUM and made a first shot connection (He only fired the rifle one time) at 500 yards on a 5" square target.
The pics shows him shooting a 6mm Creedmoor and the 300 RUM he shot.



The next day I brought a couple of SP's for him to play with.
284 Win rear grip XP-100 (168 SMK's), McRee Chassis, at 850 yards. He went to 850 after he got bored with 10" targets at 400 and 500 yards.
We ended up having switchy winds, which made things more difficult, but still fun.



And at 750 yards with the 6.5-284 bench pistol.


Can't wait to see how this young man develops as a shooter.
It was a real pleasure coaching him.

POA/POI intersections fascinate kids.

Amazes me how adults often aren't................

That's awesome. Love seeing a young boy getting the opportunity to shoot and enjoy a rifle. Make sure you take that boy often. One day he will thank you.

Good on you!

He lives about 6.5 hours away, but I imagine we will be getting together again in the future.

That's great!

Great shooting......

Way cool! Congrats on teaching him well.

I have fun taking my 3 year old to shoot bb guns and 22's. Can't wait until we can stretch it out a bit.

Yep.

Very nice! Good on you.



BTW where in Wyoming are you?

Gillette

Nice!

Received this in the mail yesterday.
It is precious and I will cherish it.

Makes it all worthwhile doesn't it? If we all had a kind heart like yours our sport would be further along. I salute you.

Sure does!

I do need to give credit where credit is due: I know some of the folks in the industry that deserve a "Thank You & Job Well Done!" for making this possible.
Savage Arms/The Rifle
Best of The West/Huskemaw Scope
Mac's Gunworks/ Muzzle Brake, Load Development and Loading all of the ammunition. They have also (while the boy and his dad were there), chopped the stock and reworked the trigger. Chuck also began walking both of them through how to load and let Collin participate (supervised) in certain aspects of the process.

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.