A few days ago, I met up with my regular shooting partners. One of the ladies brought her 12 year old step-son. Nice kid. A little shy and very inexperienced with guns. Oh, he knew movie style of shooting. but his technique was a little lacking for shooting anything more then a .22. He had his feet planted, legs straight and back arched so far back it was amazing he didn't fall over.
He learned fast and became a pretty good shot. He was a little hesitant with everything, though. The .22 pistol he enjoyed, but he was nervous about firing a 9mm. After a few shots of that, he had a big grin on his face. We started him with M1 Carbine, which, again he was nervous to try. He warmed up quickly to that.
The next step was a Winchester 94, lever action, in perennial favorite .30-30. He did not want to try this gun. He saw the size of the cartridge compared to the .30 Carbine and wanted nothing to do with it. "Just one shot," we urged. He tried one shot and grinned like we gave him a Xbox-360. He went through the next 3 rounds pretty fast. It didn't take much urging to get him to try a Remington Model 70 in .308 Win.
He's a convert.
