Spent a bit of time this afternoon with partner and Ed Hering. We hit the Crown Point gun show, then came back and went to the range. Ed brought to shoot a positively pristine Mossy 44, which makes me insanely jealous, and he can shoot it pretty well; offhand at 50 yards he was keeping them all in the 7 ring or below, having hardly ever shot a firearm in his life. He even did OK with his little Astra. He will need a lot more remedial range time, but i think he’ll do fine. He sure did the “beginner’s luck” thing all too painfully well, I wish when I started I could shoot as well as he did out of the gate.

Of course he has eyes several years younger than mine, so I’m sure that didn’t hurt either. All in all, a nice day. partner and I assailed him at times with our wicked wierd sense of humor, but he didn’t jump out of the car screaming, so I guess it must not have been too bad. It’s always nice to have a new shooter, and Ed is a natural born gun nut. We take Partner’s girlfriend next weekend, we hope, and we’ll see how things go there.