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I went ahead and served as range officer last season but the boys didn’t shoot. They are shooting this time and we just finished up the second meet. Oldest boy seems to be doing ok with his 28” Pardner pump 12ga.
My middle boy got pretty bruised up at the first meet. His little short T-Rex arms struggle to hold up his 20ga after the first 25rds. Arms got tired and he got sloppy. Managed to bruise the crap out of his bicep when it slid off his shoulder a couple times. This meet, he did much better shouldering but his accuracy suffered. Tried getting him to adjust to a boxer stance, which he did great 4 of 5 shots but then he went back to the way he was standing before and it went downhill directly.
This brings me to a dilemma. He is at a disadvantage due to being half the size of the next kid and about 1/3 the size of the older kids. The other issue is his 20ga only has 2/3 the lead shot the other boys are using. I’m wondering if I should get him a 20-22” 12ga and swap the stock for an AR style stock. Shorten that length of pull so he can get that left hand a little further up on the fore end to manage the weight a bit better. At least then he’ll be putting the same amount of lead down range and level the playing field a little.
Thoughts?
My middle boy got pretty bruised up at the first meet. His little short T-Rex arms struggle to hold up his 20ga after the first 25rds. Arms got tired and he got sloppy. Managed to bruise the crap out of his bicep when it slid off his shoulder a couple times. This meet, he did much better shouldering but his accuracy suffered. Tried getting him to adjust to a boxer stance, which he did great 4 of 5 shots but then he went back to the way he was standing before and it went downhill directly.
This brings me to a dilemma. He is at a disadvantage due to being half the size of the next kid and about 1/3 the size of the older kids. The other issue is his 20ga only has 2/3 the lead shot the other boys are using. I’m wondering if I should get him a 20-22” 12ga and swap the stock for an AR style stock. Shorten that length of pull so he can get that left hand a little further up on the fore end to manage the weight a bit better. At least then he’ll be putting the same amount of lead down range and level the playing field a little.
Thoughts?