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<blockquote data-quote="sea2summit" data-source="post: 2835433" data-attributes="member: 105720"><p>Okay, I'll see your story and raise you.</p><p></p><p>There's a 300 yard "private" range I have privileges at but hate to shoot there due to the fuds they always seem to find to RO. My daughter had just gotten a new rifle so she could reach out farther and start shooting matches (she was 13 at the time) and I had worked up some loads that were doing well in the backyard at 100 but I wanted to stretch them out some just to confirm all was well. So we hit this range because it's easy and incremented and when we arrived it happened to be at a pause for checking targets so we dropped her case and bag, stuck a few stickies on a white printer papers and started walking.</p><p></p><p>There was only one other guy on the rifle side at the time who had an AR he had obviously been shooting prior to us getting there (I love ARs, not a judgment just saying) judging by the amount of brass and the target at whatever it was less than a 100m. Just having fun, all good. But on the bench was a M40 clone (also not judging) and he picked up some zombie target and started walking and started small talk about stretching his range out some today and whatnot and…okay I lied, I had already judged. Anyway we walked past the 100 without slowing down and his comments got more interested about my daughter coming to shoot with me etc and I said she was shooting not me. He got a little quite. 200 was obviously where he planned to stop but since we didn't he didn't…I think mostly because he had a ~30% size zombie torso and we had pasties on a sheet of paper. Up to 200 there are stands with binder clips for the targets but at 300 there's just pallets and you have to staple and he asked to borrow my stapler. There's also a rack with six bowling pins hanging from strings.</p><p></p><p>So we get back to the line and I start setting up my tripod/spotter and the daughter gets to work doing her thing. You can now see on his face he's not real excited about how this is playing out. Range goes hot and my daughter and I are still getting set up but he start shooting, I don't pay a lot of attention but do see his first round strike the dirt in front of his target. So she shoots a string and we make some adjustments but the data was pretty dang close, I think the barrel had less than 80 rounds on it at the time, and it was her first precision rifle so I was pretty happy with what I saw through the spotter. Meanwhile guy with sniper rifle is really struggling to hit this zombie torso and pretty much walked his rounds onto the paper and seems to be hitting the paper more than he's missing. After forever we finally got to go down and pull the targets.</p><p></p><p>He was suddenly done shooting. On the way home I told her she made him cry and she reminds me to this day that she made a grown man cry with a rifle, I'm fairly certain that's true. Or close enough.</p><p></p><p>Took pictures, because like I said it was her first time with that rifle at any meaningful distance.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]468592[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]468593[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And she still works at making grown men with rifles cry…mostly me, but that's okay.[ATTACH=full]468595[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sea2summit, post: 2835433, member: 105720"] Okay, I’ll see your story and raise you. There’s a 300 yard “private” range I have privileges at but hate to shoot there due to the fuds they always seem to find to RO. My daughter had just gotten a new rifle so she could reach out farther and start shooting matches (she was 13 at the time) and I had worked up some loads that were doing well in the backyard at 100 but I wanted to stretch them out some just to confirm all was well. So we hit this range because it’s easy and incremented and when we arrived it happened to be at a pause for checking targets so we dropped her case and bag, stuck a few stickies on a white printer papers and started walking. There was only one other guy on the rifle side at the time who had an AR he had obviously been shooting prior to us getting there (I love ARs, not a judgment just saying) judging by the amount of brass and the target at whatever it was less than a 100m. Just having fun, all good. But on the bench was a M40 clone (also not judging) and he picked up some zombie target and started walking and started small talk about stretching his range out some today and whatnot and…okay I lied, I had already judged. Anyway we walked past the 100 without slowing down and his comments got more interested about my daughter coming to shoot with me etc and I said she was shooting not me. He got a little quite. 200 was obviously where he planned to stop but since we didn’t he didn’t…I think mostly because he had a ~30% size zombie torso and we had pasties on a sheet of paper. Up to 200 there are stands with binder clips for the targets but at 300 there’s just pallets and you have to staple and he asked to borrow my stapler. There’s also a rack with six bowling pins hanging from strings. So we get back to the line and I start setting up my tripod/spotter and the daughter gets to work doing her thing. You can now see on his face he’s not real excited about how this is playing out. Range goes hot and my daughter and I are still getting set up but he start shooting, I don’t pay a lot of attention but do see his first round strike the dirt in front of his target. So she shoots a string and we make some adjustments but the data was pretty dang close, I think the barrel had less than 80 rounds on it at the time, and it was her first precision rifle so I was pretty happy with what I saw through the spotter. Meanwhile guy with sniper rifle is really struggling to hit this zombie torso and pretty much walked his rounds onto the paper and seems to be hitting the paper more than he’s missing. After forever we finally got to go down and pull the targets. He was suddenly done shooting. On the way home I told her she made him cry and she reminds me to this day that she made a grown man cry with a rifle, I’m fairly certain that’s true. Or close enough. Took pictures, because like I said it was her first time with that rifle at any meaningful distance. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_6325.jpeg"]468592[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_6328.jpeg"]468593[/ATTACH] And she still works at making grown men with rifles cry…mostly me, but that’s okay.[ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_7912.jpeg"]468595[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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