A GREAT father's day outing with my girls! Duck hunt practice.

[Brobee]

Hi Folks!

I was super-lucky this year when my two girls came up and asked if maybe, just maybe, I might like to go to the clay range, both for a YouTube-episode-making-session and some duck-hunting practice. Hmmm...I'm gonna have to think about that for a bit....NOT! So out came the .410 and the .20 gauge and off to the local clay range we went for a GREAT day that I'll remember for a long long time:

https://youtu.be/OT-4uHtfltE

The two girls are disturbingly competitive with each other and my youngest has a deep fear of "looking stupid" by comparison to the relatively higher skill and experience of her older sister. My approach to this was multi-pronged...I worked hard to fan their imaginations in the duck hunting department, I set up their course to favour closer curling type birds, and I sandbagged my oldest daughter by secretly putting in her full choke.

I think I was somewhat lucky with respect to the outcome - my oldest was at first surprised then somewhat frustrated with her "lacklustre performance", but in the end bore down pretty good and brought herself up a notch. My youngest was buoyed up a bit by watching her sister struggle more than normal, and as a result put in a much stronger and more positive effort than she has in the past. Have to say I was pretty proud that, shooting her little .410, she was holding her own against her sister with that cannon-esque 20ga!

And then when editing our video segments in slow-mo: I was shocked to see that quite often my oldest shucks her gun so fast the the empty hull is out of the gun before the shot makes it to the clay....kinda blown away by that!

I tried to coach as little as possible, and only helped out when they asked for it (which was a couple of times...YAY! I am still useful). The outcome was fantastic - they were within a bird or two of each other and left with lots of excited & supportive trash talk.

Best days of my life.

Thanks for watching,

Jason

[tundraltd]

Great work Dad.Raise em right.

[338 Rules]

Great video!

Reminded me of going skeet, trap and sporting clay shooting with my father at the same age, which we did and often. I could tell by the quality shooting that it was not their first rodeo either lol.

My father is gone now, it brought back some great memories. Keep up you're great work!

[Slash8]

Now that was a good video right there. That's quite the pair of pigeon poppers you've got. It reminds me of when my boys were young and the fun we had doing similar things. Keep up the good work!

[gloszz]

I am jealous haha! They shoot better than me!

[Sooner]

Ok, i love the vids you post. That one was awesome, the slow mo part...great.

Well done to you and your young shooters.

[oldgutpile]

Really enjoy your posts. Awesome way for the girls to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Looks like the future of the sport may still have hope, and these two young girls are good looking spokesmodels for everything we stand for!
Looking forward to the next video.

[double gun]

I was wondering when the next video would be out. Awesome as usual

[58thecat]

Oh my the ladies can shoot really well...I think I saw a mosquito the size of a duck in the video!

[xrem597x1977]

AWESOME! I watch all of your videos, my favorite is the squirrel meal!