[TheForge] OT - Sighting in Rifles

[Jerry Smith]

Folks,

I had a gentleman call me wanting to know if I could
sight in his son's 22. I tried to tell him that its an
individual thing. He said he would pay me $20 if I
would do this. 

He and his son showed up a hour and half ago, I took
the rifle and hit a target in my back fiel that was 50
feet away. Then I put up a paper target, shoot at it 5
times, one a little high and to the right and the next
4 inside the bullseye. I was using the prone
prosition. I let the young man fire the rifle, missed
the target all together. I notice that he was
flinching as pulled the trigger. I gave him the take
in a breath and all of that advise. He hit the target,
lets say on the paper. I showed him how to make sight
adjustments on his rifle, really simple to do on his
rifle.

I took the young man to practice, and a lot. His
father gave me the $20 and $10 more for the lesson in
target shooting.

I asked if the father had every been in the military,
he said no, enough said!

A quick $30 for what was drilled into my head as a
youth.

Back to making knives.

Jerry