15 YR OLD AND WWII M-1

[Defensive sports]

Here's a short video of my 15yr old daughter shooting a friends WWII M-1 on the 100 yard range. She's been shooting with us for about 4yrs but would never step-up and experience anything larger than a Smith and Wesson M&P 15-22,
[video]https://youtu.be/6iP6XKz6Dtw[/video]

 

[indyjohn]

Looks like fun. That is a good choice for introducing a young shooter to larger calibers.

Next step is to show her the same training videos the soldiers that used that gun saw 75 years ago!

https://youtu.be/mrkp025iKr0

 

[Defensive sports]

Cool thanks for the link, i'll make sure sees them when she gets home from working at the Izaak Walton ATA shoot

 

[Kutnupe14]

Nice. I wish when I was kid my dad and grandpa had weapons like that to shoot. I was stuck with lever actions, shotguns, and revolvers.

 

[bulletsmith]

That's awesome! I couldn't see a bit of a flinch on that dry fire either! Making memories...

 

[Defensive sports]

Nobody noticed her shooting glasses had the left eye lense blacked out, the reason for that is she has trouble finding her target thru her scope on her 17hmr rifle. So I blacked out the left lense and now it's easier for he to get a quick sighting

 

[Defensive sports]

A couple of weeks ago she was shooting grandpa's colt 45 but she's afraid of my desert eagle, hopefully soon she'll brave-up and shoot it at least once

 

[wassup61]

That stance.... OMG that stance

 

[GIJEW]

That stance.... OMG that stance

time for 'appleseed'

 

[Ruffnek]

That stance.... OMG that stance

I don't understand why people want to lean away from a gun. If it's one that has the recoil to knock you down, you've just don't half of the work for it. My wife always holds her revolver out and arches her back, drives me insane. I've been working with her though.

OP, great way to start her out. Just be careful handing her something like a 12ga or a Mosin until she learns to lean into it.

 

[Ruffnek]

Nobody noticed her shooting glasses had the left eye lense blacked out, the reason for that is she has trouble finding her target thru her scope on her 17hmr rifle. So I blacked out the left lense and now it's easier for he to get a quick sighting

I actually did notice the first time she turned.

 

[crazycatlady]

Nobody noticed her shooting glasses had the left eye lense blacked out, the reason for that is she has trouble finding her target thru her scope on her 17hmr rifle. So I blacked out the left lense and now it's easier for he to get a quick sighting

I read somewhere quite recently that 85% of women are left eye dominant.

 

[JettaKnight]

I read somewhere quite recently that 85% of women are left eye dominant.

Huh.

My wife is - she switched to shooting left handed.


Anyways - cool video!

 

[Drail]

As a former NRA Instructor who has taught many women's classes I can assure you that the first problem we had to deal with with ALL of the ladies was to get them to stop leaning back away from the gun. Some of them leaned back so far the recoil of even a .38 revolver would knock them over if you weren't behind them to catch them. It's just a natural reaction to a big scary explosion.

 

[superjoe76]

That stance.... OMG that stance

I was coaching some first time shooters (family from the east coast) how to hold a rifle when shooting. Basically i told them stand like you are about ready to start a race. Lean forward, feet apart and look down the sights. With in minutes they were all shooting like champs.

I cringe when people lean back and arch around the rifle. At least she's shooting

 

[Thor]

Nice. I'm going to be teaching my 10 yr old to shoot one of those the next time we go to the range. Neat weapons with little recoil but the power of a .357 mag.

Good idea on the 'starting the race' stance.

 

[Lee11b]

Looks like fun. That is a good choice for introducing a young shooter to larger calibers.

Next step is to show her the same training videos the soldiers that used that gun saw 75 years ago!

https://youtu.be/mrkp025iKr0

thanks indyjohn for posting that link. Sometime take a look at the training video for attacking a German MG-42....they say in the video "it's bark is worse than its bite." I beg to differ!!!

 

[indyjohn]

thanks indyjohn for posting that link. Sometime take a look at the training video for attacking a German MG-42....they say in the video "it's bark is worse than its bite." I beg to differ!!!