Uncle R.
05-23-2006, 03:00 PM
Hi all:
I took #1 son (ten years old) to the range yesterday and let him shoot the DCM Winchester carbine that I inherited from his grandpa. It proved a fun time and a practical choice since that carbine stock fits him pretty well. The blast and kick of the carbine doesn't seem like a big deal to an experienced shooter but to a ten-year-old it's a flamin' monster elephant gun and pretty exciting to shoot. (Grin!) It only increased the mystique when I told him that his grandpa sometimes carried a gun exactly like it in the Korean war, and that his uncle Mike killed TWO nice whitetail bucks with this very gun. It was ever so much better in his eyes than the "little Buckaroo" that I gave him when he was six while mama rolled her eyes and muttered to herself.
:) :-D
He did pretty well and kept most of them on the paper at 100 while resting the forend on a stack of bags and his elbows on the bench. Yeah, yeah - but he's TEN and I've been shamefully negligent in his training to this point. Since the carbine doesn't lock open empty I watched him squeeze on an empty chamber a few times with no sign of flinching. VERY encouraging.
Anyway, I'd like to do some serious training, get him off of the bench and into positions, and that carbine seems like a good candidate. There are two problems - hundreds (thousands?) of j-bullets are gonna cost serious dough, and the gun shoots closer to minute-of-paper-plate than MOA.
Any tips for squeezing better accuracy from a GI carbine? Any tips on doing it with cast?
Thanks!
I took #1 son (ten years old) to the range yesterday and let him shoot the DCM Winchester carbine that I inherited from his grandpa. It proved a fun time and a practical choice since that carbine stock fits him pretty well. The blast and kick of the carbine doesn't seem like a big deal to an experienced shooter but to a ten-year-old it's a flamin' monster elephant gun and pretty exciting to shoot. (Grin!) It only increased the mystique when I told him that his grandpa sometimes carried a gun exactly like it in the Korean war, and that his uncle Mike killed TWO nice whitetail bucks with this very gun. It was ever so much better in his eyes than the "little Buckaroo" that I gave him when he was six while mama rolled her eyes and muttered to herself.
:) :-D
He did pretty well and kept most of them on the paper at 100 while resting the forend on a stack of bags and his elbows on the bench. Yeah, yeah - but he's TEN and I've been shamefully negligent in his training to this point. Since the carbine doesn't lock open empty I watched him squeeze on an empty chamber a few times with no sign of flinching. VERY encouraging.
Anyway, I'd like to do some serious training, get him off of the bench and into positions, and that carbine seems like a good candidate. There are two problems - hundreds (thousands?) of j-bullets are gonna cost serious dough, and the gun shoots closer to minute-of-paper-plate than MOA.
Any tips for squeezing better accuracy from a GI carbine? Any tips on doing it with cast?
Thanks!