Son's first full reloads

[Cornbread]

So for the last few weeks my oldest son (age 14) has been coming out to the shop with me in the evenings after work, and has been learning to reload. Then we take the reloads and go shoot shotgun shell hulls at 25 yards so he can practice holding the revolver steady and being a better shot.

We have been alternating between a 2.5" barreled Casull and a 6.5" barreled Casull. Rifle we have been shooting a Remington 700 in .308 and Winchester Model 70 in .308.

Tonight he did his first 25 ever all by himself (I was of course monitoring every step). He did well I think. Here were his first 25 before we shot them :) They are 255gr RN FP, .452 hard cast over a load of 29.4gr of IMR-4227, traveling around 1400fps.

They seem to be really accurate and aren't hand busters like some of my H110 loads so they are a good all around deer and elk hunting round and general plinker.

He is the exact same age I was when I started reloading only he has a heck of a lot more supervision than I ever did(my Dad was more of a "here is a book and a .357, knock yourself out" kind of guy).

I figured I would share. Here are pics.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/AndyTheCornbread/IMG_6052_zps319c5ee0.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/AndyTheCornbread/IMG_6048_zps1c40b264.jpg

[Jr.]

Very cool... a lot of good times ahead of you with your boy.

[LUBEDUDE]

Well done sir!

[Bzcraig]

Something the two of you will be able to share for decades into the future! Awesome!

[crazy mark]

good job. Hope you 2 enjoy your time together.

[Wayne Smith]

I wanna see the look on his face when he shot them! Congrats on getting him well started.

[searcher4851]

Congrats to the both of you. Hope you have many years of shared enjoyment ahead.

[Cornbread]

Thanks guys. I'm pretty proud of him. He killed his 3rd deer last year and is becoming quite the good hunter and fisherman. Now if he goes on to join the Marines he will continue on the family traditions in full :) We have been here since before ND was a state but each generation since we came has been Marines and we all hunt, fish, and shoot/reload etc. I am proud to see him starting to learn to carry on the traditions of my family since we arrived here on the boat from Norway :)

[Deliverator]

Hmm maybe you should get him into JROTC, hold his nose to the grind stone, and see if he can't make it to Marine OCS.

[BrassMagnet]

Now you need to teach him "Magic Boolit theory!"

Those boolits are perfect.
Those crimps are perfect.
That brass is perfectly prepared.
I am sure he primed those cases perfectly.
I am sure he powdered those cases perfectly.

Now that he has perfectly loaded boolits, they are magic!
Magic ammo deserves perfection in aiming, squeezing, and sight alignment.

Perfect aiming and magic boolits combined can do anything!

[Ed Barrett]

Never too young.

[Cornbread]

Hmm maybe you should get him into JROTC, hold his nose to the grind stone, and see if he can't make it to Marine OCS.

We have never had an officer in the family before. Highest rank was his great grandpa, he was a Sgt Major. His grandpa and I both made Sergeant but so far no officers. I'll have to bounce that idea off him and see what he thinks of it.