Thread: Starting out slow... places for beginners

Good to see your supporting the young ones in their shooting, wish i had the opportunities that your offering your children when i was younger. Good on ya @grunzter

Originally Posted by possummatti

Good to see your supporting the young ones in their shooting, wish i had the opportunities that your offering your children when i was younger. Good on ya @grunzter

Shite man your not that old as it is

Originally Posted by Gibo

Shite man your not that old as it is

Pfft Gibo. U and i both know ive been around the block a few times. Ahhhh ages a bitch

Originally Posted by possummatti

Pfft Gibo. U and i both know ive been around the block a few times. Ahhhh ages a bitch

Ha ha you crack me up

Originally Posted by Gibo

Ha ha you crack me up

What is a old fella like you doing up so early anyway

Just seen this thread tonight. Well done Spook.
I was going to suggest a flemish giant hunt. All the flemish giant rabbits escaped again last night.

On Ya Spook. Well done Gruntzer

Great parenting Gruntzer, nice intro for your kids.....good onya Spook

They brought some nice toys with them



I like this one though...kak handed, right eyed using "normal" rifle...hitting everything he shoots at.



Always said those AR's were kiddie guns @Happy



Once again the kak handed, right eyed kid showing how it is done.

Kak handed and right eye dominant. Damn talk about overcoming adversity

He started off kak handed, using his left eye as all his initial shooting was with iron sights, but later his accuracy dropped, and he later told me it was much easier using his right eye.
Some of the RO's at the local range said he should try and adapt his right hand, but that made him feel like he was no good, so made him a little sad...
Adding the 4x scope raised the line of sight, and he was back into it.
To me its all about enjoyement at this age, so did not want to turn him off.

Wadda ya mean Grant I've seen you and the boys on the 25 at NZDA river head range... let a lone the 50/100

Awesome what those boys do, and well managed and safe on the range too...
Let the young fella find his rhythm - he'll work round it no problem... just ask us cack handers!! The only thing they need to learn is ammo conservation LOL.
Maybe you can pay them their allowance in rounds Ha ha !!!

All the best and great you could make use of the great resource spook has there..

...it was one day on the 100m range, with one RO who actually was offering good advice, but Troy interpreted it wrong which made him think he was not doing it right... you know how kids are...
Thanks all!

Good on ya @Spook

Good on yah for getting the kids out.

I suspect you have already heard the following so feel free to ignore it.
Left handed, right eye dominant - Enjoyment at his age is important, and they can be quite competitive as well. Shooting left handed with his right eye will work ok at this age but as he gets older / bigger it will become harder to do with standard firearms and damn near impossible on clay targets with a shotgun. You can train your body out of the right eye dominance though or simply learn to shoot right handed.

Training to change eye dominance - this takes time, practice and technique.
Start with a full black eye patch - looks funny but effectively stops him using his right eye, forcing his brain to use the left. Use this for a while then shift on to shooting glasses with a sticker/patch of the right lens, in front of the right eye. This will give him back his peripheral vision but still force his brain to use the left eye. After some time of this he should be able to remove the glasses and the brain will focus through the left eye. Because he is not shooting the whole time he may find his right eye will still be dominant for everything but shooting - with training though he will be able to switch eyes seamlessly. This technique worked with a couple of competition shooters I know - it takes a long time and a lot of practice though. I would not recommend you train to simply shut the right eye.

Learning to shoot right handed is simply practice and technique.
Of course he will start off not shooting as well but he will get much better with practice.

Shooting is all about sight alignment and trigger control. It is not about holding the rifle steady - it is about having the patience and control to squeeze the trigger when the sight alignment is correct. Trigger control should be practiced to the point it is subconscious, so you want all your focus on sight alignment - not on trying to work out which eye to use.