A day with the nieces

243 practiceDorothy helped me on the boat this morning.  I needed her to get down in the engine room and remove a light fixture for me so I could put it where I could get at it, and make it work.  She was a natural with the tools and working in the tight space.  We soon had the fixture out and the job done.  I paid her $20/hr.  $10/hr for the labor, and $10/hr hush money to not tell the labor law authorities.
Her mom sent along some of the African sauce made with the beaver meat I gave them to try.  CRAP, is that good.  We are now beaver fans.      This afternoon, I took Dorothy’s big sister Gloria shooting again.  Brian’s pilot friend flew up from Craig for a plane inspection, and brought my spare .243, which will be her deer gun for now.  I knew the rifle was sighted in because I had a piece of flagging tape saying so when I uncased it.  I went through the gun with Gloria on how it worked.  Then I took one shot: bullseye.  Ok. It’s still sighted in.  Then she shot about a dozen times.  She had a tight enough group, but everything was high and to the left of the bullseye.  So, I shot again to be sure the scope was dialed in.  My second shot was right next to my first shot. I called Sara’s sister in Craig, who has taught oodles of people to shoot over 30+ years being the lead Hunter Ed person on Prince of Wales.  She said, oh yes.  People can see differently shooting.  Each person can be different on the same gun.  I guess I didn’t know that.  So, we just need to have her sight the gun in for her eyes the next time.  Lesson learned.

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