A budding long-range shooter (8 years old)

[xphunter]

Not sure where to post this, but since this 8 year old young man put multiple shots on steel at 1440 yards, I thought it might work.
I was able to do some coaching this week with a 8 year old boy shooting distance with a Savage 6.5-284 Rifle (factory 9T barrel), 3-12 Huskemaw scope, and MAC brake.
Chuck McIntosh was helping coach some as well.
We ended up the day with the young man making multiple connections at 1440 yards.
Very proud of this young man. He also fired a suppressed 300 RUM and made a first shot connection (He only fired the rifle one time) at 500 yards on a 5" square target.
The pics shows him shooting a 6mm Creedmoor and the 300 RUM he shot.



The next day I brought a couple of SP's for him to play with.
284 Win rear grip XP-100 (168 SMK's), McRee Chassis, at 850 yards. He went to 850 after he got bored with 10" targets at 400 and 500 yards.
We ended up having switchy winds, which made things more difficult, but still fun.



And at 750 yards with the 6.5-284 bench pistol.


Can't wait to see how this young man develops as a shooter.
It was a real pleasure coaching him.

 

[lostcoyote]

awesome job, coach(es).

 

[Rockfish Dave]

That's good stuff.

 

[Donald]

Its great to see young men stepping up to the plate and doing us proud great job.

 

[xphunter]

Received this in the mail yesterday.
It is precious and I will cherish it.

 

[prairieshooter]

This is way cool. We need more people teaching and introducing youngsters, that's what keeps the sport alive!

 

[Douglas-001]

Great! I can just see this fella showing up at Camp Perry with a service rifle and going home with a fist full of medals! As if I don't have enough things to worry about....but seriously, that is outstanding and the young man has the old school courtesy to WRITE a thank you note. Sounds like good parenting too along with the coaching!

Doug

 

[xphunter]

His dad is definitely a good man and father.