She wanted to give a couple of targets and some dangerouns Diet 7-Up cans a workout with her uncle's Remington Nylon66. Dad wanted to play with the 600NE and 450/400.

Loaded up some "plinking rounds" (RGB 718grain Crayola-tips over 150 grain RL25) and some elephant loads with 900 grain CEB #13s for the 600 and took a box of Hornady DGX and DGS 450/400s just to try out the "new to me" Verney-Carron.

My daughter did s nice jobe of showing just how well a barrage of .22LR can create a thumb-size hole in a charging diet soda can. After the carnage, she said
"Dad! Imagine what would have happened if they had soda in them!"

After a few put em up and knock em down with the .22 it was time to burn my left hand with the 600NE. I finished up with a handful of softs and solids out of the 450/400 before it was time to head home.

Stopped for ice cream at Custers Last Stand on Rt 209 in Wurtsboro (where my father would stop with me on similar trips in the 1960s) after which she fell asleep.

Can't have a better day than that...

Great day for father/daughter! Paul I could have saved you some miles. I was out all day shooting with a guy referred by Griffin & Howe, working on field shooting technique (Prone, off tree branches, pack, shooting sticks)to prep him for a Tundra Grizzly hunt.

Thanks Jon.

Part of the reason that I make this trip is the mystique for my daughter that surrounds the "country place grandpa brought daddy when he was my age". It's as much about turning over rocks for snakes and spiders, looking at the well with the initials of all the grandchildren (that's me and my cousins - all 25 of us) carved in it while the concrete was still wet, the remnants of the swingset that was mine as a child; as it is about shooting. The magic of a place to the kids from Brooklyn now seen through the eyes of a kid who grew up in Cranston, RI and now lives in New Jersey.

I definitely need to get together with you at your place to practice for my upcoming safari but a day like today is a day for my daugher to remember to her own kids someday, and maybe even pass that magic along.

Thanks for everything Jon,

Paul

Good stuff. Nice to see.

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Hey, no problem...a day to remember.

Paul,

That's what it's all about.

Your daughter will remember that day forever.

Thanks for telling us about your day,family times are so important,I love taking my son to the range

Doc, Well done.

I am always happy when I see a fella that gets his kids involved in shooting/hunting.

Boys and girls her age are the future of our sport.

Great stuff Paul!!

Absolutely! That IS what it's all about!

Very, cool report.

I just finished loading some plinking rounds for my 450NE. Will head out for a bit of shooting this afternoon.

Hartley

A great day that she'll remember !
Just south of Wurtsboro there's a great hiking area - Basha's Kill with lots of wildlife.
If it gets too easy for her to hit soda cans get some animal crackers so she [and you ] can do some safari type hunting. They make a VERY challenging target at 50 feet with 22 pistol.

And they say we can't do perfect.
This comes mighty close!

Any day shooting with your kids is a great day.

Doc:

This is the most wonderful thing to have a perent/child outing on the range where both do really enjoy shooting.
My Girl wanted and insisted on having and insisted on having a rifle for her 7th birthday present, I had her try couple of kids rifles at the gun store, they were a little big for her. that gave me a way out but not before I promised to buy her one for her 8th birthday. incidentally she did not like the pink stocked guns.

Good hunting/shooting and God’s best

Malek

Thanks for the kind, warm words everyone.

Enjoying the things you love with those you love most - that is what life is all about.

Stay well,
Paul

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Originally posted by mete:
A great day that she'll remember !
Just south of Wurtsboro there's a great hiking area - Basha's Kill with lots of wildlife.
If it gets too easy for her to hit soda cans get some animal crackers so she [and you ] can do some safari type hunting. They make a VERY challenging target at 50 feet with 22 pistol.

I'll have to check that place out, thanks!

Animal Crackers - what a great idea! Thanks for that one too.

Stay well,
Paul

Your post brought a little mist to my eye...not hard to do these days. My boys are up and gone, the oldest is in Sangin Afganistan as a DM with the 3/4 Marines (and loving it), the other one is in boot at MCRD, (and loving it). My little girl will be flying up to Wyoming to start school soon and her first question was "Dad does Wyoming have a YHEC team? If they don't your going to start one." I imformed her that they do and she said "Cool I get to carry on the tradition". Yes my head swelled a little.

It is so much fun to watch the younger ones progress, and the smile on her face when those "evil Dr. Pepper" cans go spinning.

http://www.traillink.com/trail...management-area.aspx

Paul , here's a bit more info on Bashakill as it's officially known.

Good stuff Doc! How did the 450/400 do? any pics?

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Originally posted by mete:
http://www.traillink.com/trail...management-area.aspx

Paul , here's a bit more info on Bashakill as it's officially known.

Neary 5 decades of getting off at exit 113 and never once did I ever know of this place.
Thanks again

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Originally posted by jorge:
Good stuff Doc! How did the 450/400 do? any pics?

Hey Jorge,

The 450/400 is sweet and very handy. I can see why it is the double caliber of choice for some folk.

I didn't get a chance to take some of my usual photos of it with some fired cases scattered about. After I took those of the 600 above I put the phone (the only camera I seem to remember to bring) back in the car. By the time I thought to take some photos of it, it was time to pack up. It's the third Verney-Carron I have owned and every one has been exceptional.

Thanks and stay well.