A GREAT father's day outing with my girls! Duck hunt practice.

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Hi Folks!

I was super-lucky this year when my two girls came up and asked if maybe, just maybe, I might like to go to the clay range, both for a YouTube-episode-making-session and some duck-hunting practice. Hmmm...I'm gonna have to think about that for a bit....NOT! So out came the .410 and the .20 gauge and off to the local clay range we went for a GREAT day that I'll remember for a long long time:


The two girls are disturbingly competitive with each other and my youngest has a deep fear of "looking stupid" by comparison to the relatively higher skill and experience of her older sister. My approach to this was multi-pronged...I worked hard to fan their imaginations in the duck hunting department, I set up their course to favour closer curling type birds, and I sandbagged my oldest daughter by secretly putting in her full choke.

I think I was somewhat lucky with respect to the outcome - my oldest was at first surprised then somewhat frustrated with her "lacklustre performance", but in the end bore down pretty good and brought herself up a notch. My youngest was buoyed up a bit by watching her sister struggle more than normal, and as a result put in a much stronger and more positive effort than she has in the past. Have to say I was pretty proud that, shooting her little .410, she was holding her own against her sister with that cannon-esque 20ga!

And then when editing our video segments in slow-mo: I was shocked to see that quite often my oldest shucks her gun so fast the the empty hull is out of the gun before the shot makes it to the clay....kinda blown away by that!

I tried to coach as little as possible, and only helped out when they asked for it (which was a couple of times...YAY! I am still useful). The outcome was fantastic - they were within a bird or two of each other and left with lots of excited & supportive trash talk.

Best days of my life.

Thanks for watching,

Jason
 
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It is her tiny little arms that are making the pump gun run so fast recoil forward then she gets rocked back running the slide. Seems to be working well lol.

I must say for the amount of good jobs you get and looks like fun comments, you would think you would see a lot more kids out there.

But you don't...
 
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Great video, and a couple of great shooters! Well done! Makes this Remington guy want a Mossberg 500! :) I can say this too~your youngest daughter shoots her .410 better than I shot my full-choke .410 Cooey. Hated missing with that gun so much I sold it! lol
 
I've seen your 00 buckshot videos before, which were really well done. Good job on keeping our tradition alive in the next generation.
 
kamlooky said:
Sure fun to wartch.
Owww did you make the bunnie-runnie target?
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There are special "rabbit" clay targets available that are designed to be thrown/rolled along the ground:

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If you have a post or a special stand to clamp to, you can set up vertically (rather than horizontally) a cheap aluminum hand-pulled thrower and they will easily throw these types of targets. Alternatively, if you have some terrain to play with, you can find aluminum channel that you can use to make an elevated inclined plane. You drop the rabbit target into the channel and it rattles down, picking up speed as it goes. It will then shoot out of the bottom of the channel.

Both my kids think the rabbit target is the most fun...sometimes when the rabbit hits a bump it will fly in the air and you can easily miss underneath as you were preparing to take it on the run, not on the bounce.

There is an annual spring shoot in Radium BC where they throw a disproportionally high number of rabbit targets...it is aptly named "the Elmer Fudd". We went for the first time this past year and it was unanimously voted by our little family as THE "must-do" annual shooting event worthy of travel.



ViRiV said:
Nice!
Can't wait till my kids grow up!
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Be careful what you wish for...I can remember like it was yesterday when they were born, now our time living together is about half over. The time seems to go way quicker than it should.
 
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the spank said:
Looky?!! Really?? f:P:2:You need to visit a sporting clays course buddy and try using a shotgun for it's intended function, hitting moving targets especially airborn not just ground swatting grouse or water swatting geese! ;)
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Be very careful with this suggestion - discovering sporting clays coincides nicely with the beginning of a big drain on my bank account...:)
 
Brobee said:
...now our time living together is about half over. The time seems to go way quicker than it should.
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^boy is THAT true. For years, my daughter was my shadow. Tagging along on groundhog shoots, grouse hunts, long afternoons of shooting .22, clays every other week or so...then somewhere between 13-14 priorities shifted. Now, almost 16, I can sometimes pry her away from her iPhone and persuade her to shoot clays for a couple of hours. She has a great time, then it's back to SnapChat, getting herself dolled-up for an hour just to meet her girlfriends at Starbuck's, etc. All teenage girl stuff, but it makes me glad I spent SO much time with her when she was younger.

So...keep up the good work dad!
 
As a dad of two little 'uns, I found this heartwarming. You're building great memories for them (not to mention yourself too) and best of all, planting the seeds to keep it alive for the next generation. Way to go!
 
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