it better to teach them now, then leting them go out on the streets and learning.
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it better to teach them now, then leting them go out on the streets and learning.
Is it sad that I can see these pictures being used by the "other side" as hate-monger/right wing/racist/etc gun shooters "indoctrinating" their children on how to use full auto super armor blowing up assualt rifles with a laser attached!?!?! HAHA.
My greatest memories are from when I was taught to shoot by my grandpa and dad. Grandpa was a farmer (RIP). He could iron site a groundhog over 200 yards and get a kill everytime. He was also a hip shooter and was friggin' amazing on speed drills with a revolver. He could roll the hammer and all 6 shots sounded just like one big one with six holes on target. My dad left farming at 18 to join the military. Though he was never designated to a "sniper" team, he was an expert marksman in all aspects. I remember once my dad wrote his initials (CDB) in a paper target 15 feet away with two magazines in under 20 seconds. It was AMAZING!! With me, they skipped the BB gun and my first exposure was with a .22lr. They didn't let me fire the gun until I could show them the basic design features and how teh gun functioned, state the proper rules for handling firearms and figure out how to remove the barrel and the trigger assembly. Then I had to show that I knew how to clean it. After that, all hell broke loose with the soda cans set up on the beam of the carriage barn! Man, good memories... I still have that .22 too, single shot, bolt action. But it's at my dads house over on the east coast.
All these pictures of your guys kids almost make me want to have one. My brother and I have been around guns our entire lives. Having them sitting around, we never looked twice at them. Pop had me shoot my first 22 at around age four. By age six my brother (he was 11 then) and I had the freedom to grab our 22's and tromp around the feilds of our "farm" on Arapahoe and Cherryvalle in Boulder. Now it's Flatirons Acura, Subaru.
Anyway, if the child has been exposed to them from a very young age, I think that the age depends on wether the child can hold the gun and demonstrate responsability. I know a few adults that still can't fufill requirement number two.
This was me at age 14(ish) shooting my Beretta 70s (22) when my pop would take us out to the grasslands for "vacation". No we never made it to Disneyland, and rarely out of state. I still remember people asking him about going there,
"What's up there in the grasslands?"
"Nothin" he replied
"Well, Who's up there?"
"Nobody"
"Well, why do you go there?"
"Cause there's nobody and nothin"
http://www.rlservices.biz/arsgnz/grassland%201989.jpg
My oldest boy when he was 6.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...r/a2da44d2.jpg
Both of my boys (8 and 11) a few months ago taking care of some prairie dogs.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...9/IMG_5413.jpg
Newracer: Is that a tub of paintballs I see on the table in the first picture?
And, is that private land that your kids are feeding the hawks and cyotes in the second picture? I need to find a place to take my pop hawk feeding.
I took a friends daughter shooting for the first time just after Thanksgiving too, she is 8.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c.../Photo0087.jpg
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c.../Photo0088.jpg