82nd airborne
11-06-2010, 04:28 PM
Hi Fellows,
One of my best friends has a 10year old daughter that has been dying to go deer hunting with her daddy. The only problem with this is that none of his guns were anywhere near short or light enough for her to handle, as she is a small girl. I tried to remedy this by cutting the stock short on a .300 savage for her to use. Still too long and heavy. Scope alignment was also a problem with the stock length. All kids have a hard time getting their eye the right distance from the lens to see through it propperly.
After some thought, I considered using my 10mm Ar-15 with an Aimpoint comp2. The collapsable stock ran all the way down fit her perfectly, while the aimpoint's infinite eye relief proved easy for her to obtain a good sight picture in a timely manner. Its light weight also allowed her to hold the gun without becoming fatigued easily. We quickly saw that, while not traditional, the little AR was the perfect gun for such a small young lady.
With 14 grains of 2400 under a 180gr TC composed of aircooled weel weights from the local tire shop, owned by a friend of ours, the recoil was very very light. In fact it was only a fraction of the felt recoil compared to the 5.56 in a similar weight AR. She was able to fire the gun comfortably, without fearing recoil or muzzle blast.
After sitting in the blind for almost 4 hours, which is very impressive for such a young child, especially in 28 degree weather, two button bucks and thier equal sized mother stepped into the clearing about 30 yards away. She patiently waited as one of the button bucks meandered its way towards the blind. The deer stopped about 20 yards from the blind, quartering to. The young lady placed the red dot of the Aimpont on his shoulder and squeezed the trigger. The 180gr of wheel weights zipped out of the blind at 1300 fps, striking the deer high on the on-side shoulder, and exited behind the off side shoulder, leaving about a 5 or 6 inch exit wound. The buck dropped in his tracks.
I had no idea a measly 10mm would perform so well, even out of a 16" barrel. She and her father were happier than I have ever seen either. It is still undecided as to which is more elated. Even I was beside myself, and I didnt get to see it first hand. As I type this, two tender loins and a loin are marinating for tonights feast. She is also about to get her first taste of deer heart, which I eat from every deer harvested, for a couple reasons.
She enjoyed it so much that I gave her a hunting knife of her very own and promised to build her a pink M4-style AR in .300 Blackout with her name engraved in the upper. Now shes really excited. She is going again on Sunday after church.
She even helped skin it.
Enjoy the pictures gentlemen, sorry for the length of the write up, I just got a little carried away.
Regards,
Aaron
The other two kiddies are my future hunters. They already go, just not carrying their own firearms. It is ussually only for half an hour or so. But man they love reloading!
One of my best friends has a 10year old daughter that has been dying to go deer hunting with her daddy. The only problem with this is that none of his guns were anywhere near short or light enough for her to handle, as she is a small girl. I tried to remedy this by cutting the stock short on a .300 savage for her to use. Still too long and heavy. Scope alignment was also a problem with the stock length. All kids have a hard time getting their eye the right distance from the lens to see through it propperly.
After some thought, I considered using my 10mm Ar-15 with an Aimpoint comp2. The collapsable stock ran all the way down fit her perfectly, while the aimpoint's infinite eye relief proved easy for her to obtain a good sight picture in a timely manner. Its light weight also allowed her to hold the gun without becoming fatigued easily. We quickly saw that, while not traditional, the little AR was the perfect gun for such a small young lady.
With 14 grains of 2400 under a 180gr TC composed of aircooled weel weights from the local tire shop, owned by a friend of ours, the recoil was very very light. In fact it was only a fraction of the felt recoil compared to the 5.56 in a similar weight AR. She was able to fire the gun comfortably, without fearing recoil or muzzle blast.
After sitting in the blind for almost 4 hours, which is very impressive for such a young child, especially in 28 degree weather, two button bucks and thier equal sized mother stepped into the clearing about 30 yards away. She patiently waited as one of the button bucks meandered its way towards the blind. The deer stopped about 20 yards from the blind, quartering to. The young lady placed the red dot of the Aimpont on his shoulder and squeezed the trigger. The 180gr of wheel weights zipped out of the blind at 1300 fps, striking the deer high on the on-side shoulder, and exited behind the off side shoulder, leaving about a 5 or 6 inch exit wound. The buck dropped in his tracks.
I had no idea a measly 10mm would perform so well, even out of a 16" barrel. She and her father were happier than I have ever seen either. It is still undecided as to which is more elated. Even I was beside myself, and I didnt get to see it first hand. As I type this, two tender loins and a loin are marinating for tonights feast. She is also about to get her first taste of deer heart, which I eat from every deer harvested, for a couple reasons.
She enjoyed it so much that I gave her a hunting knife of her very own and promised to build her a pink M4-style AR in .300 Blackout with her name engraved in the upper. Now shes really excited. She is going again on Sunday after church.
She even helped skin it.
Enjoy the pictures gentlemen, sorry for the length of the write up, I just got a little carried away.
Regards,
Aaron
The other two kiddies are my future hunters. They already go, just not carrying their own firearms. It is ussually only for half an hour or so. But man they love reloading!