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Granted, this goes back over 40 years to a different time and gun culture.

My son, now over 50 and a battalion commander in the Army NG, combat veteran, learned to shoot with a single shot Savage .22, then muzzle loaders. Open iron sights all. Don't recall that he ever fired a semiauto until a Garand as a teenager. Don't recall the first scoped rifle, but it too came along later.

This photo is from a state muzzleloading match when he was just shy of his ninth birthday. The medals, three gold and a silver, are from the teen class, and the target a 100 yard prone match where he beat the men's winner by a point. The shot at 9 o' clock should have gone center, but for a bad wind call on my part. Stiff breeze from the left. Rifle a .50 cal. Hawken, round ball.

He has always had a natural ability, but a kid doesn't develop that kind of skill with a scoped 10/22 and bricks of ammo.

Paul



Really neat, Paul! Thanks for sharing.