Have to brag a minute

Cora (12) is on the 4H shotgun team this year. They're shooting clays from a stationary thrower. They have a district tournament coming in about 6 weeks where she'll shoot, I think, 2 rounds of 25 birds each. She's on the junior team so she'll have to hit 16 out of 25 to qualify for the state tournament. She's had 3 practices. The first practice she hit 1 out of about 12. Second practice she shot 2 rounds of 25 and hit 6 the first round and 7 the second round. Today she shot 2 rounds and hit 18 of 25 and 16 of 25. She grinned from ear to ear when I told her 18.

Now for Evie (14), she is part of a trio at school that went to literary meet last week. It's a district competition for singing, acting, and dancing. Her trio won first so she's headed to a state tournament with the trio. She's also headed to the state competition with FFA in poultry judging after placing 6th out of 300 or so in the district. And finally, she's playing Mary Poppins in the high school play in about 6 weeks. This is her second lead role in her freshman year which, I think, means she has lettered in theatre. Pretty proud daddy here.

go girls!!!  Not to shabby mom and dad!

Good job mom and dad and congratulations on all of their achievements. Keep us informed throughout the season and lets us know how they’re doing. We’ll be cheering them on

Excellent Tyler. You tell them that silly hillbilly they met is very proud of them.

Thanks everybody. I know we're not supposed to brag but I just couldn't help it

ACinSC, yes she shoots 20. I bought her a Franchi Affinity 3. She had the option of using the 4H guns but I'm fairly sure they've been used and abused over the years and are probably fairly cheap to begin with. I figure she's much better with HER gun rather than a community gun

Edited by thendrix - 1 hour 60 minutes ago at 10:56am

Congratulations girls and mom and dad keep up the good work. Grandson started trap last year for FFA. He was good at first then had a little slump mid season but last tournament, I think that was state. He did better. He was suppose to start this week, but he broke his thumb in the lunch room at school last week. Went and watched him practice last spring it was a good time. Last practice of the year the coach had them play a game where they lined up and first person shot and if they missed second one could shoot and eliminate the first person. All the way down to the final 2. There were a couple girls on his team. They were older like junior senior and they were pretty good shots. One of them best all the boys during one of those games.