Getting old and enjoying it.

lanwickum

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My oldest son asked about rifle shooting at longer ranges over the 4th weekend while we all took a couple days off work. I have been away from shooting longer range for years now. My eye have a disorder and seeing 3 targets from 1 makes them hard to hit. I did buy a scope a while ago hoping to get back into it as eye contact technology is improving to help my sight. Still not great. I have not even gotten a good zero on the scope. Blew the dust off a few boxes of FGM 168 308 ammo, opened the safe, grabbed a few other things quick and set up on the flat bed. Had to ride side x side out and find the steel I have had set up. We walked in a few rounds at 735 yards and started hitting steel in the wind. It was a very relaxing. I forgot how much I enjoy it watching them call hits. Also asked about reloading. That is another rabbit hole to enjoy. We can work on that later I told him at 9pm when we quit. I am thinking I will open the safe for them and hope they catch the bug.
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I was not able to get into it enough at that age but it would have been great. Heck, I did not get to start hunting until sneaking into my 50's.

But yeah, that sounds like a great way to spend the real "No Kings" Day (when we officially kicked King George to the curb.)
 
Took a kid shooting yesterday and he was just spraying at 100 yds. By the time we backed up to 300 he settled down and started hitting the target. (No, the 55g fmj's didn't "settle down" the shooter did.) It was getting too dark by the time we backed up to 400 yds and w/o a 1/2-decent scope he found his maximum range with that rifle.

The getting old part isn't so great for me though.
 
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