Saturday, a friend's little 15yo boy started his 2nd walk-and-paste match, completed his 1st. Friend traded a cheap M1 for a NM A2, but it's a little too big at the moment, so he defaulted to his M4gery. Boy was being a grumpy teenager towards his Pa initially, so I had to get more involved (I wasn't gonna shoot well anyway).
Standing didn't inspire him.
Sitting Rapid, everyone was done in regulation, except boy. He was more deliberate than slow, and spotted a few seconds. He grouped!
Prone Rapid, he picked up the pace, but maintained decent fundamentals and grouped in the same area.
For the first string of Prone Slow, I had to adjust his front sight up, but I let him turn the windage knob. While all over the paper, he was holding elevation relatively well, enough that I could see the shorter radius caused a slight over adjustment on elevation. I went a detent down, and he shifted up about that much for the 2nd string.
In our farewell, boy said he'd see us next month. Not with the "dad's bringing me" tone, but "I want to shoot again".