Range Day - May 7 2011...

Big Mullet got a new Chicken Chucker (clay pigeon thrower for you non-rednecks). This thing is freakin awesome. You can adjust it to throw all kinds of directions and elevations. You can even set it up to be able to fire what ever direction you want.

See that square tube sticking out behind the seat? It fits into a receiver hitch. So I guess you could sit in the seat and launch clay pigeons while you are driving down the road. We may have to try that. Hmmm, sounds like something Young BillyBob would have tried in about 2 seconds.

All we shot today was shotguns. Other than my M&P .40, I didn't even bring anything else. Here is our gear.

That is my Mossberg 500 on the left, Big Mullet's Mossberg 590A1 in the middle and my Little One's Remington 870 Youth 20ga on the right. We shot my 500 more than anything else. Neither of us had much luck with the 590A1 today for some reason. My Little One is sick and couldn't make it out with us, but we fired a few rounds through her gun just to make sure it was working ok, it was.

With the new Chicken Chucker we are able to send two pigeons up at a time if we want. Shooting two is a lot of fun with a pump gun. We did pretty good, but we could use a little more practice.

I have to tell you, my Mossberg 500 is a damn fine gun. Everyone that shoots it instantly falls in love with it. It is easy on the shoulder and very accurate. What more could you ask?

Here is me.

Here is Big Mullet.

Here is Big Mullet with his competition Service Rifle. We didn't fire it, but we had to check out the pull on the new trigger he installed.

We had a blast. We shot up more than a hundred rounds, probably close to 130. And went through a box of 132 clay pigeons. Any day shooting is a great day...

Yesterday at the range...

I talked a yesterday about our family trip to the range. I got a chance to mess around with the pictures a little this evening so I thought I would post up a few.

My Bride working the Remington 20 gauge...

My Oldest getting ready to blast another pigeon.

My Little One after knocking down another pigeon.

My Bride drawing a bead on one. See the little orange dot?

Good, clean family fun at the range. I like to think they all learning skills that will help them later in life. But the way we are headed in this Country, they may need those skills to eat before long.

Range Day - April 17, 2011

My Bride, my Daughters and myself all headed out to the range today. I didn't take anything except my Mossberg 500 12 ga., the new Remington 870 Youth Model 20 ga., the Smith & Wesson M&P .40 Compact and a Taurus .380 that was on loan to my Bride from a friend.

We spent most of our time shooting shotguns. I borrowed Big Mullets clay pigeon slinger.

It took my Little One a few shots to catch on, but once she did there was no stopping her. The Older One did a good job too. And my Bride, as usual, was awesome. Everyone loved the new Remington. My Bride was only willing to shoot 3 rounds through the Mossberg. That's ok, they all did a fine job with the 20 ga.

I took some pictures, I'll try to post them tomorrow.

The pistol shooting was pretty quick We met an older gentleman and he let us shoot his Kimber .45. My Bride fell in love with it. It was the first time she had fired a 1911 framed weapon.

A new toy today...

I told you yesterday that I went to the shotgun range and shot some trap. I took my youngest with me. She was immediately interested. I didn't think it was a good idea to let her shoot my Mossberg 500 12 ga. since she only weighs about 80 pounds. One of the other guys at the range had a really nice, older auto loader 12ga. and offered to let her try it out. She fired a couple of rounds out of it and did a great job.

I did a little checking last night on youth 20 ga. shotguns. I fell in love with the Mossberg Bantam so we took a little trip to Cabelas today to take a look at them. The guy there was a big help. He noticed that the Bantam was actually too small for her. He suggested the Remington 870 youth 20 ga. She tried it out a couple of times, back and forth with the Mossberg. He threw a Benelli into the comparison. As it turns out, the Remington was just about perfect. The Mossberg was a bit too small and the Benelli was too expensive.

She is itching to try it out. I think we will head to the range next Saturday if the weather is decent.

I'll post a few pictures in a day or two...