Katelyn was 13 in 2012 when those videos were made. She actually ran a stage at the Pro-Am as a CRO at 14. But Hound is right. Parental fear aside, I try to expose kids to a variety of things in sports, art, literature, etc. and try to help them as much as I can. Some of the female junior shooters have done more for the shooting sports in the last few years than (do not take offense) probably the entire membership of this board. Kids talking to kids and women talking to women will get more of them interested in the shooting sports which is essential for the long term health. Gun-owners (buy a .38 and stick it in a sock drawer) have proven to be pretty insignificant, but take away my hobby, my passion...now we have something else to deal with.

When we had my son's baseball team out to Novekse to work stages, most had never shot a gun, so they got quite the exposure. 2 of them are in the process of building AR15s as a result. On the converse, we did have a mother who would not even let her child touch a gun, with associated threats towards the father if it occurred.

Sorry for the soapbox, but if everyone who reads this thread takes 2 or 3 kids to the range in 2015, it will help lay the foundation into the future to "keep" our state if in fact we do get it back. Apathy will no longer cut it.