The Almeida family has moved to Raising Maine. They still will be exploring Maine's outdoors, creating crafty projects and casting chickens in homemade videos. But you will see it all in their new blog.
After spending a week target shooting with her dad in the backyard with both a BB-gun and .22-rifle (no Barbies this time, the targets of choice were cardboard boxes with hand drawn bulls-eyes and cans), L. was ready with her own ear protectors and renewed enthusiasm to give the shooting range with the Bulls-eye 4-H club another try.
So last night L. stepped into the shooting range and got down to business. Her form in the prone position was not ideal (swinging ankles in the air isn't condusive to steady shooting) but she managed to hit her paper almost every time.
G. was prepared this time and wore a pair of pants under her fleece skirt. She's got her fashion statement to think about on the range after all.
Target Shooting - Take 2
I had mixed feelings about being proud of L.'s shooting ability. Fino - who likes to stir things up on occasion - enjoyed my reaction to his comment about her "killer instinct."
The girls have now been assigned to a prone competition team (beginners learn to shoot in that position first) in the 4-H club so they could not bring their targets home last night because they had to be sent in somewhere (I have no idea how any of this works) to be scored.
The girls came home happy and excited to go to the range next week.
That's great! If she takes a real liking to it, she could go into competitions. She could make a lot of cash for college by winning!!! I know a few people who did, and still do. Be proud!!!
Posted by snowflake November 27, 2007 07:16 PM
I didn't know the 4-h club did that. I'm glad to see they do. Personaly, I think if kids know how to use a firearm and what it can do, there's less chance of
something happening by accident. But personaly, I wouldn't use "killer instinct", children and firearms in the same story. It just doesn't sound good.
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