I made my daughter go to the range today, that's right I made her. I've been struggling lately getting her to shoot. I don't want to force her, but deer season is coming up fast and she needs to shoot.

I asked her if she liked hunting, and she said yes but she didn't really like shooting anymore. So she reluctantly said okay to shooting when I told her that she didn't need to shoot a lot she just needed to shoot. I also threatened not to take her hunting in OK for Thanksgiving.

So since she's getting bored with punching paper I decided to switch things up. I had her hang up a paper target at 100 yards and have her take one shot. We walked down and saw that her zero hadn't changed. So we went back to the bench and I adjusted her scope up 3.5 MOA and told her to shoot the gong at 300.

I got a "WHAT" from her! I told her to just take her time and send three shots at it. Then I got a sheepish "okay" out of her.

1st shot and I yelled out "HIT!", she just grinned at me. 2nd shot she missed, I asked her what happened she simply stated "I jerked". I told her to take time with her next shot and do everything like her first, 3rd shot "HIT!", 4th shot "HIT!".

We then packed up everything to head home. Then we walked down and took a look at her target. 3 out of 4 on target and she knew what she did wrong on her miss, that makes for one happy dad. The load is a 125 grain NBT at 3000 fps out of a .300 Savage, and I told her we should be able to "whack and stack OK whitetail" with her rifle.

Hannah with her .300 Savage M700 Classic.


Hannah's group 7.531" at 300 yards.


Walking back to the bench I asked her if she'd rather shoot at 100 or 300? She said shooting at 300 was a lot more fun. So much fun that tonight when she prayed at supper she thanked God for shooting.

hella good shootin. I've got one of those .300 sav classics too, wonderful rifle.

Very cool! Stretch it out some more if only for fun...

David

That's so cool. Good on you and nice shooting to your daughter. Good luck with your up and coming hunt as well.

Awesome! Good luck to the both of you in OK!

get the girl some tannerite.....

In jars about 3" across.

Excellent!!!!!!!!!

Yep, just gotta make it fun.

Reminds me of a story about my daughter. I was training her to ride her first horse...a miniature. After a few month she said...dad, I'm thinking about saleing my horse and getting out of riding. All this coming from a 3 year old.

I said OK, but were going to go down to the arena for one last lesson. We get to the arena and go through all the paces. Daughter says can we go now.

Not yet...one more thing then we'll go.

I tell her to run her miniature horse. How do I do that she says as we'd never done that. So we get the horse to run and off she goes.

In the truck on the way home I say...well let's go ahead and put twinkle in the paper for sale tommaro.

No dad...I changed my mind, do you think we can do this again tommaro.

Funny how it all works.

Shod

Excellent, all around!

What load is she using in that rig?

FC

While not as explosive as tannerite, she does love to whack some prairie dogs. We just couldn't get it done after school as our dog towns are at least an hours drive away, the range is only 5 minutes.



Factory ammunition from Double Tap it's rated for 3050 fps that's all I know. bought four boxes of it at a pawn shop for $60, I figured if it didn't shoot I could tear it down for components. Luckily she can hold 3 in an inch at 100 with that load.

She'll be 12 next year and she wants to hunt elk so that's why were using the .300 Savage. Last two years she has used a .223 with 55 grain Barnes TSX on deer in OK. Colorado doesn't allow anything smaller than 6mm, but I'm thinking a .300 Savage with 130 grain TTSX and youth cow hunt will bet the ticket for success. She's tolerating the recoil okay from the 125, and I figure the 130 won't be much different.

Just an update from a proud papa!

My daughter had a good day!