Had my @ss handed to me by the 9 year old...
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:51 pm
I got sharked. I was played. It was dirty pool.
I had the boys at the rimfire match and I was letting the 9 year old shoot off the bench.
It's a $10 scope so there was LOTS of kentucky elevation involved, but once we dialed in a hold-over, he could nail them pretty good.
About half-way thru the match, we get to the 50yd targets which the scope is set for and he's taking 3/5 and 2/5... I'm pretty unhappy with his performance and haste. I lecture him a bit and tell him how I expect better from these targets and that he needs to focus and take his time. I then offer him $5 for cleaning the next 5 targets. He settles in and goes to work while I help the older boy. I look back to see him taking the 5th target down. I'm like, cool but crap... I check his magazine to see if maybe he lost a target to ricochet and sure enough, there's a round in the magazine. I say, "Hey, you have shots left." He says, "Yea, two." I figure cool, he's being honest. I say, "Well then, pick off the two you missed on the first bank." He proceeds to drop them stone dead.
I figure, cool, he's as good a shot as I thought he could be, but if you know this little turd, you know you always have to be suspicious. He turns and says, "You owe me $7." I say, "How you figure?" He says, "I loaded 7 rounds just in case." I about shat myself laughing! I handed him a fiver and told him he's lucky I'm an easy mark with a sense of humor.
I had the boys at the rimfire match and I was letting the 9 year old shoot off the bench.
It's a $10 scope so there was LOTS of kentucky elevation involved, but once we dialed in a hold-over, he could nail them pretty good.
About half-way thru the match, we get to the 50yd targets which the scope is set for and he's taking 3/5 and 2/5... I'm pretty unhappy with his performance and haste. I lecture him a bit and tell him how I expect better from these targets and that he needs to focus and take his time. I then offer him $5 for cleaning the next 5 targets. He settles in and goes to work while I help the older boy. I look back to see him taking the 5th target down. I'm like, cool but crap... I check his magazine to see if maybe he lost a target to ricochet and sure enough, there's a round in the magazine. I say, "Hey, you have shots left." He says, "Yea, two." I figure cool, he's being honest. I say, "Well then, pick off the two you missed on the first bank." He proceeds to drop them stone dead.
I figure, cool, he's as good a shot as I thought he could be, but if you know this little turd, you know you always have to be suspicious. He turns and says, "You owe me $7." I say, "How you figure?" He says, "I loaded 7 rounds just in case." I about shat myself laughing! I handed him a fiver and told him he's lucky I'm an easy mark with a sense of humor.
Thats great.. Sounds like he knows how to snow the old man already, better watch that one! 
I think there right numbers he shot a 28 off the bags in what had to be a speed record 