July 4th we were fortunate enough to host some lads from Great Britain to celebrate Independence Day with us. I bought some Cowboy hats for them and set up a shooting gallery to introduce them to an American tradition. I taped a drinking straw to a can, ran a string through it. Pull the string tight and anchor it on both ends. I have them Daisy Bb guns to start with, the cans about 5 feet away. As the cans get farther away they get a little harder to hit each time. An excellent training exercise disguised as fun. Two strings and cans and you have a can drag race. These young men had never fired a weapon of any kind and in no time they were hitting their targets on a regular basis. We moved up from BB guns to multi-pump and break barrel pellet rifles with scopes I had dialed in to shoot tiny targets like aspirin tablets. They were hitting 2" targets more often than not. Then we moved on to firearms. I brought my Ruger Mark IV, a S&W .380 semi auto came with another guy, a 22lr bolt action rifle and a 12ga single shot shot gun. The lads had a blast. Most satisfying for me was that it wasn't an exercise in frustration for them. After they were finished I made some long distance, freehand, open sights shots with a replica Winchester 1866 air rifle and a 1377 air pistol. And an over the shoulder shot at about 20 or 25 yards.
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