Shotguns and clays

So today my son Sam and my daughter Sage hiked back to the lake to do some clay target shooting.Sam got a Rossi 20 gauge for Christmas and this was our first chance to try it out.Both the kids were stunned at how hard it is to hit those flying disks.They went through a box and a half of shells and hit a few birds but they both had smills on there faces.Sam's new 20 handles well and is a excellent starter gun.It also came with a 22 LR barrel.The only complaint was the buttstock has no recoil pad,witch is ok for the 22 but really wails you with the shotgun.We put a Sims slip on recoil pad and that made a huge difference.All of my kids do a lot of shooting but this was Sage and Sam's first time shooting shotguns,They do a lot of rifle and pistol shooting in both rim fire and center fire.The hand thrower we used is a MTM ez-double throw.It was brand new and took a few trys to get the hang of it,and it was hard to load the targets at first but got easier with use.We really had fun and dad even talked the kids into letting him try and busted both birds thrown for him witch put big smiles on the kids .The pressure was on so I was glad I didn't miss.If you have a place to do this give it a try you will see the confidence grow in your kids with each shot weather its a hit or not.I also saw confidence in gun handling and they both had a chance to practice gun safety and we discussed gun safety before we started shooting .Take a kid shooting