Ben and I took a couple of our favorite plinking (or Blinking as he used to call it) rifles out the other day for some shooting. He used his customized Rem 514 for a little long range practice shooting at a steel plate about 90 yards away. A long way for an 8 year old with a .22.
My favorite walking around gun is a Winchester 75 Sporter that has been restocked by an unknown gunsmith. Whoever did it did a fine job and it has a little bit of a G&H look to it. Ben is showing them off.
One of the reasons I like custom .22's is that here in central IL you can get a lot more use out of them than you can a big game rifle.
Lest anyone think I am not teaching Ben how to shoot iron sights, we did a little practicing for smallbore season as well. I hope to get him off the bipod and into a sling next year, but will likely have to go to a lighter rifle for that.
Regards,
John
PS. The scope on the 514 is one of the Chinese copies of the old Redfield 3/4" tube rimfire scope. Although advertised as being parallax free at 25 yards, it actually has about 2" of parallax at 25. I guess it will teach him to keep his eye centered in the scope.