The weather was nice and May is busy so the Dirty Dozen 4-H Shooting Sports Club met for a second time today and focused on one thing...their aim. Getting serious on narrowing their sites...the members who attended the meeting found themselves shooting at small targets. By small what I mean is take a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Cut it in half. Cut that half in half. Cut that half in half and that is where they started. From 15 yards the two club members found themselves grouping their shots in a much smaller area to hit the target. Then the paper got cut in half again, forcing them to shoot in a tighter pattern. After all that practice it made the next task seem almost easy and fun.Club leader Larry Russ set up a board that held clays upright. The boys took turns trying to knock each clay down, one shot per clay. Dillon was up first and to his surprise and delight hit each target, which as he said seemed rather big now that they had been shooting at scraps of paper. 
Then it was Allen's turn. He took his time, aimed, pulled the trigger 10 times and hit 10 targets. Tied the two felt the need to try again. They set up the clays and Dillon took position with rifle in hand, he aimed and ten trigger pulls later, he had hit each target. Allen took a deep breath before his turn and concentrated. Timing paid off because by the time the magazine was empty, he too had hit each target. The club leader was getting ready to change the format a little to shake things up but Dillon and Allen agreed to call it a draw saying they both won, rather than keep shooting it out. However I do believe they both said next time the other one is in trouble. After such a display of sportsmanship the meeting was adjourned and the group cleaned up the range and helped load equipment before heading home.
Then it was Allen's turn. He took his time, aimed, pulled the trigger 10 times and hit 10 targets. Tied the two felt the need to try again. They set up the clays and Dillon took position with rifle in hand, he aimed and ten trigger pulls later, he had hit each target. Allen took a deep breath before his turn and concentrated. Timing paid off because by the time the magazine was empty, he too had hit each target. The club leader was getting ready to change the format a little to shake things up but Dillon and Allen agreed to call it a draw saying they both won, rather than keep shooting it out. However I do believe they both said next time the other one is in trouble. After such a display of sportsmanship the meeting was adjourned and the group cleaned up the range and helped load equipment before heading home.
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