4, 8, .22

Proud day for dad, when the kids were quite young, Merrick only a year, I bought small combo youth guns for them, .22 caliber and 20 gauge. Small framed with a lot of safety features, I thought these little break actions would be great learning and teaching guns. Today was the day we took them out to the woods. After working through all of the safety aspects including checking the barrel for debris, in true Barney Fife fashion, the kids individually were given their bullet. We were shooting at a small spinning target, that suffered very little damage today, but as we swatted away horseflies and mosquitoes Sophia did manage to put a little hurt on the plastic gopher targets. Her face lit up when she made the middle gopher do spinning back flips. Merrick was farther off, but not much. With his gun registering nearly 20% of his weight, I thought he did very well. It was nearly an hour on "the range" but I don't think either of them shot more than eight times. As I had suspected, a great teaching and learning combo.