15-Year old pistol champion

[Buppies]

Great post thanks for sharing

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thanks for posting. Glad to see some youth not addicted to video games.

 

[shooterdon]

Was walking thru a store in Paducah yesterday when I met a friend and his granddaughter. He introduced her as the Kentucky State Pistol Champion. She is 15 years old. He showed some videos of her hitting a playing card EDGEWISE on the first shot at 50-feet. I couldn't see one edgewise at fifty feet. Then videos of her shooting the flames off candles. She shoots some type of pistol that I had never heard of. Granddad said it was very expensive and that he bought it for her. She had on a CCI jacket and uses standard velocity CCI ammo in her shooting. Very personable, very beautiful young lady who stood and chatted with my wife while grandpa bragged on her. Saw a couple of grins and eye rolls behind his back. Having three granddaughters myself I was very pleased to see the affection between the two.

Girl wants to attend the local Murray State University because they have one of the best shooting teams in the country. Then she wants to be a teacher.

Steve also showed me a picture of another former co-worker and his $50,000 (I questioned him twice on the price) single shot 22 rifle. Guy uses it in competitions. Only uses Finish Lapua long rifle ammo.

I know guys with guns that expensive...and up to $125k... but they are not .22 target guns.

Call your buddy...get the name of the manufacturer. It would be interesting to know.

When I competed in smallbore, Anschutz was the top rifle and none are near that price. I still have the Anschutz.22 my dad gave me 57 years ago. It has been rode hard and put away wet...but I will never sell it. Damn I miss the old man....

 

[groundcover]

Bespoken For

An $80,000 shotgun? As Prince Charles, Guy Ritchie and Dick Cheney can all attest, a better bang is worth the bucks.

www.forbes.com

they can get spendy!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I had a friend who worked at Champlin Arms in Enid, so I got a cook's tour about 40 years ago. I was looking at an English made side by side, double rifle...a beautiful piece of work; it just had the look and feel of quality. Price? $50,000. I asked why it was so expensive; they said it was hand made from one end to the other.

 

[shooterdon]

One of my friends has a $50k Krieghoff trap gun...same as my $18k Krieghoff, but with a lot of gold inlays. I shot on a squad at the Southern Grand in Florida with a guy who had a $125k Krieghoff "Gun of the Year". He never let it out of hands...never put in a gun rack.

You can take a great gun and embellish it with engraving and gold/silver inlays to make it more expensive but that is just "bling". The "bling value" comes from the many hours of labor and cost of precious metal added. The guns do not perform any better.

That is why I am curious about a $50k target .22. Wonder who made it. I cannot imagine adding that much labor to increase the accuracy of a rifle. Even benchrest shooters invest less than that.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

 

[Big Blue Florida]

The cost of a firearm will always surprise an outsider. But the target results is the pride of the shooter.

 

[Captain Dirty]

A Ruger .22 pistol for around $500 will shoot better than I can hold.

 

[RoyJackson]

A Ruger .22 pistol for around $500 will shoot better than I can hold.

Same here

I'm not going to criticize anyone for what they shoot or the cost of the firearm.
I'm not a good enough shot, nor do I practice enough, to justify a high dollar firearm. I'm very happy with my Ruger Mark IV's (own 2 of them) at the ranges I regularly shoot (15' to 100 feet, give or take). My old eyes just ain't much good beyond 100' and none of my handguns have scopes...couple have red dots though