Thread: The Great NZHS take a kid hunting comp

So the young fella has been wandering around behind the boys pheasant hunting or helping call ducks in the maimai for about 4 or 5 years now ... he's been told he can shoot Opening in the swamp next season so I decided he needed his own shottie for his 10th birthday. A quick call to Reloaders had a 16g single shot on hold and off we went to pick it up. He tried it, decided it fitted and off we went. He spent hours practising opening it, closing it, mounting it and generally getting familiar with it that night.

Then off down for a pheasant hunt that weekend. We tried to put him in some areas where he could stand (with me behind and supervising) and have birds come out in front of him and that's what happened. First bird and the little bugger had the gun closed, up, mounted, safety off, swung and fired before I could say "There's one".

That happened 3 or 4 times during the morning and even though he was a bit behind them, I was bloody impressed. As long as he takes a few years to learn to outshoot his old man I'll be happy