Posted October 31, 2017 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

You know when I start to feel old? When I find myself complaining about the upcoming generation. One of the things that annoy me most of the time is the idea of instant gratification. It seems kids today (using that phrase makes me feel really old) don’t want to do anything unless they can see some results right freaking now.

When it comes to shooting sports and their growth down the road, that might not be such a bad thing.

When a trapshooter hits his mark, everyone watching knows it. The clay target sailing through the air shatters into tiny pieces and creates a burst of colored smoke that lingers in the sky.

The first time 16-year-old Grayson Davey of Anchorage triggered those fireworks, he knew he’d found his sport.

It happened when he was an 11-year-old attending a shooting camp at Rabbit Creek Shooting Park. Kids were exposed to a variety of shooting sports and firearms — bow-and-arrows, .22s, big-game hunting rifles — before finishing on a trap range, where they were shown how to use shotguns.

Last month, Davey turned heads with a surprising victory at USA Shooting’s Fall Selection competition in Arkansas. He beat a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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