What I love to see is the young kids getting into this stuff! We people who’ve grown up with our guns are fine, but there’s a helluva lotta younger people who have never been taught the things that we all love (and live for).
Here at home, the Chestnut Ridge Bow & Gun club has been supporting young shooters. Our high school has a pretty good shooting team, and we’ve been doing all we can to support them.
We got (IIRC) 5 rifles granted to them by the NRA. And they’re using our indoor range free of charge.
These young people are the future of our nation, and I’m very proud of having been small part of that.
I’d love to send soma our kids out there.
Maybe I’ll bring it up at the next meeting.
7mm
The youth participation is huge to our future. Minnesota started the statewide trap shoot in 08 if memory serves with 13 small teams. We now have around 14,000 school shooters statewide. Largest participant school sport in the state behind only football. It takes us 9 shooting days to get the 8000 plus shooters thru the state qualifier in Alexandria Minnesota.
The youth are the future.
The Quigley shoot has a purpose and theme for sure but maybe a youth division with open sight 30 cal as well? Most young people are priced out of the event as is but could participate in a factory load .30 cal open sight event? At distance of course?
Maybe another venue, preserve the Quigley? We have school age shooters here who run beyond 300 straight on the trap range and I think it would be neat to see how well young eyes could shoot open and long with practice and competition.
God bless the 2a.
Osky
