I bought my wife and daughter a franchi affinity catalyst 20ga, to try and get them more into shotgunning. I came in earlier this week so we went to the range Saturday to try it out and also get the daughter some practice on her hunting rifle. The rilfe range was alot busier than i thought it would be for opening day of rifle season. But found a bay and shot the 22s, handful with the 20 being as they have only shot a shotgun a time or 2, and a few with her 2506 to remember what the trigger and kick was.
Then we moved over the the skeet range to try some moving targets. I couldn't even tell you the last time I shot clay birds and it showed. We took it easy and just set up on stations 6 and 7 by the low house and pretty much shot them flying away. I was really impressed how quick my daughter picked it up, probably 1 out of every 3, and boy the 17yo trash talk when I missed "no wonder you never bring any birds home when you go out" the wife had a grin the whole time. And when we ran out of shells the daughter asked if we had more 20ga shells at the house cause that was really fun. It made my whole day, and looking forward to doing it again soon. And seeing if she can miss wild birds just as easy as i can lol.
Then we moved over the the skeet range to try some moving targets. I couldn't even tell you the last time I shot clay birds and it showed. We took it easy and just set up on stations 6 and 7 by the low house and pretty much shot them flying away. I was really impressed how quick my daughter picked it up, probably 1 out of every 3, and boy the 17yo trash talk when I missed "no wonder you never bring any birds home when you go out" the wife had a grin the whole time. And when we ran out of shells the daughter asked if we had more 20ga shells at the house cause that was really fun. It made my whole day, and looking forward to doing it again soon. And seeing if she can miss wild birds just as easy as i can lol.
