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There is never enough ammunition

Small Boy with Laugh Lines

A.D.D. is AWESOME

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There is never enough ammunition

Small Boy with Laugh Lines

A.D.D. is AWESOME

Pigs - Slugs - Rigs - Slug

Yeah, well, I broke it off and bought a Contour head cam.  Finally put it to good use.  The story begins a little differently.  My lovely 15 year old daughter, sometime in Sept or Oct 2011 mentions wanting to shoot a pig.  I kind of "uh, huh, yeah, uh, yeah, okay" her and don't think  much of it.  She brings it up again and I ask a few poignant questions.  Actually one - "Darling, dear, you have never really shown an interest in hunting, why all of a sudden?"  The reply is very straightforward including some wonderful hunting logic bordering on an excuse to GO hunting.  "See dad" she says, "When I mention how much you go hunting at the ranch and all that - the kids always ask if I have ever killed anything!"  A pause to answer some pressing text message......................."So, I figured I'd shoot one pig and get it over with."  Dad, thinks this is a perfectly logical excuse to GO hunting.

My wife is absolutely awesome as well.

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I put Libby through the standard firearms instruction, we shot a bit with my RWS model 52 magnum air rifle.  It's a scoped, accurate bugger.  If you relax it will hit 9mm shells at 20 paces with ease.  I started Libby on a can, then moved down to empty 20 gauge shells.  She popped three in a row, that was enough.

See, here's the trick.  You hardly ever feel recoil, heck most of the time you never hear the gun go off when you shoot something.  So why let a new shooter feel recoil?  I have a killer pellet gun as big as any rifle out there and much heavier with a target scope - perfect practice.  20 minutes before we went hunting I pulled out the .223 showed libby how to operate it and had her dry fire it twice.  I made sure she followed through on each shot and stayed down looking through the scope as she pulled the trigger.

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Girls follow directions better than boys.

30 minutes later we found three pigs at a feeder.  We had discussed Dad's magic aiming methodology which is to "shoot them in the cheek."  She did that and our pig went down after a delightful whop!  Yippeee .223 - she gets to add her name to the stock.

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Small Boy with Laugh Lines

A.D.D. is AWESOME

IDPA - Practical - Useful - Fun

Rolled out to my first IDPA match this weekend.   Well, actually my son shot, I was there for the writing and to see what this whole concealed carry "scenario" based shooting was all about.

From what I observed, John and Julianna Crowder, who run this particular club, went logical with the name.

Capital - The Capital of Texas - Austin

Area - They welcome shooters from Hither and Yon.

Practical - Absolutely the most practical "practice" I've seen

Shooting - ABSOLUTELY - cool weapons, nice folks, and lots of pops!

check out their website - http://www.caps-chl.com/

After a more than efficient safety and rules of the range explanation, it was time to rock and roll.  

To make you a practical shooter the IDPA rules state you must have your handgun concealed under a jacket, including spare magazines.

Not surprisingly you were required to draw your gun, safely, finger off the trigger, acquire the target and shoot for center mass.  Interestingly.....a perfect score is 0.  Meaning you hit the 10 ring every time - which is backwards...well, sort of.  Here's the logic of "0 = 10 ring" - you're shooting for time.  High scores and misses add seconds to your overall time which rolls up to an overall score.  There were five scenarios so a few misses on each one can stack up at the end of the shoot.  So 0, or no additional time means you are shooting straight.   The experienced shooters are fast, very fast, but they shoot straight too - it is definitely something to pay attention to - when you get serious.

There was right hand shooting

One Handed "Weak Hand" shooting.

Kneeling and removing your unloaded gun from a box - kind of shooting.

Gotta love a well placed triple tap!  Not a 0 but if you were in a sticky situation.

This is a 10!

Hey for all of you who might be intimidated by a "pistol match" remember where we started here.  My son is 13 and absolutely loves pistols.  The CAPS group was welcoming and very supportive, teaching Caleb how it is all done safely, yet allowing him to handle his weapon as needed.  Trust me he was at least two decades younger than anyone I saw and did fine.   I suggest you check out the CAPS folks.  They shoot at Best of the West in Liberty Hill every second Sunday.  Safety, Orientation at 8:15, hammer down at 9 am.  BTW - if you show up early they'll even let you help set up.....just like any club....help is ALWAYS appreciated!

Come get you some practical shooting.  What the heck did you get that concealed carry for anyway.  

It is a HOOT!

Troy Fowler

Small Boy with Laugh Lines

      A.D.D. is AWESOME

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It's been a while.

Heck - it's summer and I have been playing.  Once the kids get back to school I'll start posting again. 

Upcoming Topics of note:

1.  Pellet Guns

2.  Wadefishing

3.  Whitewinging in the Rio Grande Valley with a .410 (maybe a pellet gun on flying birds)

4.  Fall fishing - good night the jackfish can be a hoot in October.

5.  Still haven't shark fished.....

6.  Tarpon?