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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: kilopaparomeo on May 31, 2010, 12:34:37 PM
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This coming week is the last for my kid's school. On Wednesday, the 4th grade class is spending the day with sort of a mega-show and tell. They are to tell what their talents are and give demonstrations. My daughter -- who is a talented softball player and musician -- what does she pick? Shooting!
She cleared it with her teacher so early this morning she and I went to the range. Haley loves shooting my AR15s, especially the .22 conversion units. I recently built a dedicated .22 upper out of Spike's Tactical components...now she has claimed that as her own.
Anyway, she had fun mowing down rows of bowling pins and steel plates and I had fun loading magazines for her. We made a couple of videos too but I can't get them to upload.
She is going to take in her targets and eye/ear pro along with pictures and maybe the videos. My guess is that she will have all the class boys jealous. How many other 4th grade girls spent the morning shooting ARs? Also, gotta love small town teachers that understand shooting isn't some kind of anti-social disease.
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I was going to say that your reward for this would be a visit from child protective serices and a restaining order. ;D But you say its a small town so you're all good. Me, think you're raising her right and she's a cute kid. Good for you.
FQ13
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Sounds like good work to me :D :D
I am very curious as to how her presentation is received. Would love to see the kids and teacher's (or teachers') reactions.
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Outstanding ! ;D
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A PS to my original post.
Speaking as former Pro-Choice activist? I Would email that first picture of her holding the AR to NARAL with the caption "I'm pro-choice and I shoot back". Just imagining the endles squabbles about whether to have it made into a poster or having you put on a watch list would keep me laughing for hours. If you don't want to to get into abortion? Send it to NOW. Caption it "No means No Asshole, did I stutter"? ;D
FQ13 who is an evil evil man.
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Give them the same type of moral quandary we get from "Pink Pistols" ?
Who we can thank for helping the NRA beat SF.
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Good goin' Dad! Glad the teacher OK'd it also. Shows a lot o' class.
Richard
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Plus many on this.
Get her a better rest for the rifle though.
Do want a followup on how it went.
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That is AWESOME I love it!! Just to piss of the establishment I'm going a team project in my college class on learning to shoot!! ;D I'm going to bring in some Airsoft pistols as props.
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Great pics kpr!!!! Fantastic!!!
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That is AWESOME I love it!! Just to piss of the establishment I'm going a team project in my college class on learning to shoot!! ;D I'm going to bring in some Airsoft pistols as props.
That could be fun. I did it in ROTC for a required "practical lesson and public speaking" project where we had to give a 5 minute talk demonstrating a practical skill to all 250 odd cadets and cadre with the lesson being graded by the cadets, on how well we could demonstrate any practical skill in the time alloted..I chose safe gun handling as my project, and got to "accidently" shoot my colonel with a painball with no repercussions as a result. Did I mention this could be fun? ;D
FQ13
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The AR is just a little too heavy for her...don't like her monopoding the gun off of the mag but at the pin and steel range there aren't a bunch of options.
In this video, she is kneeling on a soft gun case and resting on the forearm
View My Video (http://tinypic.com/m/adkiz7/2)
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What a Show Off :D :D :D :D
You can tell she enjoys shooting. Will she get to Share the video too?
Good Job Again.
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Oh my gosh!! I am just grinning all over...! ;D
What a sweetheart.. I'm so proud of her.. and of you for teaching her..!
The little dickens can shoot too.. What an dead eye...!! :D
That is just sooo awesome!! I love it!!
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Great stuff, KPR, outstanding!!
This is what it is ALL about!!!!
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She is badass with her 22lr Ar. :)
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Where it the "like" button? Oh yeah, this isn't Facebook. Still, very cool indeed. :)
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That is AWESOME I love it!! Just to piss of the establishment I'm going a team project in my college class on learning to shoot!! ;D I'm going to bring in some Airsoft pistols as props.
Great idea, Guns, but be sure you don't get your a$$ in a sling with the Airsofts. Our gun-unfriendly educational establishments have suspended kids for DRAWING pictures of weapons. It is illegal to bring weapons onto most if not all educational campuses and I wouldn't want to see you end up in the hoosegow for doing something "they" find threatening.
Offered for discussion by Crusader who has NEVER wanted to stay in the Gray Bar Hotel. :P
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very cool
Tomorrow I "HAVE" to go the gun shop to order the Savage Cub ( single shot .22) for the little one then might head to the range after ;D
this was taken last christmas
think I will need to update it
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PS she is 10 if anyone asked ;)
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very cool
Tomorrow I "HAVE" to go the gun shop to order the Savage Cub ( single shot .22) for the little one then might head to the range after ;D
this was taken last christmas
think I will need to update it
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PS she is 10 if anyone asked ;)
Mine just had her 10th birthday on Monday.
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Still need to get her some pink ears. ;D
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Mine just had her 10th birthday on Monday.
hehe cool
5 years for her to go...
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hehe cool
5 years for her to go...
No, she's not allowed to grow up any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Is the Spikes Tactical upper and lower all Aluminum? What holds me back from buying a .22 LR, AR-15 is plastic. The S&W model is full of it, and the "Colt" Umarex M-4 is cheap pot metal, not made from a forged Aluminum piece. That gun you have looks to be very well made. Bill T.
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Is the Spikes Tactical upper and lower all Aluminum? What holds me back from buying a .22 LR, AR-15 is plastic. The S&W model is full of it, and the "Colt" Umarex M-4 is cheap pot metal, not made from a forged Aluminum piece. That gun you have looks to be very well made. Bill T.
This is just built from some Spike's components vs. being a complete gun. I agree though...I didn't want a "pot metal" or plastic AR (even though it would be lighter for the kids). I wanted a .22 AR that had the same size, weight and controls as a centerfire version.
I built this upper from a Spikes dedicated .22 barrel and dedicated bolt unit (about $365 total for the barrel and bolt) The bolt is different from the Ceiner/CMMG conversion units in that it doesn't have a chamber adapter but is specially made to interface with the dedicated barrel. It uses Black Dog magazines. All controls are the same except it doesn't lock the bolt back after the last shot...the follower on the mag does keep the bolt open...sort of like the Yugo AK mags.
Upper components are:
+ Spike's barrel and bolt
+ CMT upper receiver
+ YHM rifle length railed forearm
+ YHM front sight, rear fxed
+ DPMS A2 FH
The lower is DPMS with a RRA 2-stage match trigger and a Vltor eMod stock and is borrowed from my 6.8 SPC rifle.
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very cool
Tomorrow I "HAVE" to go the gun shop to order the Savage Cub ( single shot .22) for the little one then might head to the range after ;D
I have a Savage Cub that I start the kids on. Great little gun. Lightweight, great trigger (Accutrigger), accurate, safe single shot action, inexpensive, very good aperature sights and easy to mount a scope on it if you want. Very nice little gun and perfectly sized for the little ones.
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Kilo,
Does anyone manufacture a complete, all solid Aluminum AR-15 in .22 LR? With today's ammo cost I would think they would sell like hotcakes even if they were priced the same as .223 models. Bill T.
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I can't check it from work (proxy filter comes down on the evil "WEAPONS" sites) but if my memory holds, I think both Spikes and Tactical Solutions sell them. Model 1 and M&A also do but I've never been too crazy about those companies.
I'll check for sure when I get home tonight.
KPR
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Thanks, Kilo. Bill T.
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BillT
What I thought...Spike's sells complete uppers for .22 LR...built from all forged aluminum parts. I highly recommend their stuff.
http://www.spikestactical.com/z/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=72_73
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I have a Savage Cub that I start the kids on. Great little gun. Lightweight, great trigger (Accutrigger), accurate, safe single shot action, inexpensive, very good aperature sights and easy to mount a scope on it if you want. Very nice little gun and perfectly sized for the little ones.
well it is ordered 8 to 12 weeks apparently Her 5th birthday is in October so fingers crossed
for those that don't know what they look like this is the one I ordered
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just got back from the range
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That last look is worth a million $$
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hehe yep
she had a lot of fun
as you can see we had the rifle of front and rear bags and a target set up at 25 meters
from the 30 odd shots she had here is her first target ( going to need to stick that on the fridge for mum )
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Adorable, Phil. ....and she helps make beer too. You got a winner :D :D :D
Shoot, I think I'd rather spend my time at the range watching these little ones learning and having fun than shooting myself. (just to be perfectly clear :D :D)
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That ear to ear smile says it all. We need more youngsters like her to keep our sport alive.
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Adorable, Phil. ....and she helps make beer too. You got a winner :D :D :D
Shoot, I think I'd rather spend my time at the range watching these little ones learning and having fun than shooting myself. (just to be perfectly clear :D :D)
I am trying to bring her up politicly correct as I can ;D
hehe should of seen her Nana's face when I told her that I have ordered her birthday Pressy hehe... ( she is not a fan)
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Hell phil not only is she better looking than her dad, she can shoot better and I see no weatherby eybrow from using a small calibre rifle like in the below picture ;D ;D ;D
Good on ya Trem, keep kicking ya old mans bum!!
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I can't wait to get my daughter shooting. She's only 3 but is already showing interest because her big brother shoots and she wants to do everything he does. The Savage Cub is a great starter, that was my son's 5th birthday present. For his 6th birthday I got him a M&P22. I was going to build him a dedicated .22 AR but the M&P was so light weight (I know, plastic) and I got such a good deal on it when I bought it ($375) I figured it was the best deal. For his 7th birthday he and I are building a 5.56 AR together going for a ultra-light tactical. Magpul MOE stock and handguards over a 14.5" ultralight taper barrel with fixed flash hider. He already has "helped" me build a few rifles, handing me punches etc. and always help with the gun cleaning duties. He also took pictures of his range time in to school for show and tell, small towns and private schools are great.