I ran the range at Boy Scout camp last Monday night and all day Tuesday, assisted with instruction on Thurs & Fri. We got 40 of 62 Scouts to pass their qualifications for the merit badge including 2 that you would never have thought would pass, probably have 2 or 3 that would have passed if they'd bothered to come up Thursday night or Friday morning.

The one I feel best about had groups all over the place Tuesday so that night we were getting his position stable, trying to get him to follow through, etc. Asked him what his sight picture was like and he said he couldn't see the target. It turned out he had a blind spot in his left eye AND his eyesight in the left was 20/50 or so.

He wanted a scope -- no can do for the merit badge BUT I got the rifle instructor to bring his reading glasses Thursday and had the boy put them on. Groups were still kind of loose but tight enough to score -- surprise, surprise, it's a wonder what you can do when you can actually see the target rather than guess where it's at ...