Hi there!
Apologies if this post is inappropriate and if so, please delete! But I want to share a bit of happiness for us that has come as a silver lining from these wild and difficult times...
My daughter had her summer job get kaiboshed because of all the crazy pandemic action this summer - she was really bummed out so we struck a deal to create together a new job for her. As a family, we’ve been shooting a lot of rimfire with a series of steel animal silhouettes of our own design, and we’ve had a good enough time with them I’ve always thought others might enjoy them too.
So we ordered up some steel and had a bunch of whitetail, coyotes, and stands CNC laser cut. We welded them all up with scoring paddles you can shoot to re-set, figured out how to send them in the mail, and built a little web store.
She has aspirations to be an animator when she’s an adult, so we finished off her summer work program by collaborating on a video short to introduce them to others. She’s spent the past three weeks working on the almost-800 frames she drew by hand to realize her anime-self as a presenter:
https://youtu.be/t36D7hAC2bE
As her dad, I feel blessed to get to not only spend time in the woods with her practicing on our favourite targets and putting that practice to work on small and big game, but to also watch her be excited to chase her dream by working out her first piece of “commercial art”.
So what can you tell us about your favourite rimfire targets? How do you use them? What are the things you like the most about them?
Hope you and all your loved ones are safe, healthy, and happy in these strange times...
Best,
Brobee