right of passage

plinkin pete · Post by **plinkin pete** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:33 am

Had the pleasure yesterday of breaking in my ten year old nephew to the world of hand and long guns.177 pellet scoped rifle, little heavy but he loved it, Wheel pellet gun, (crosman) he hit the beer can five out of his first six shots, man! was he smilin. His father stood by and watched the lfe long lesson begin for his son. The lads name is Whalen and he is hooked for life, ahhhhhhhh the right of passage.

Modoc ED · Post by **Modoc ED** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:36 am

I wanna know who drank the beer out of the can? Hope it wasn't Whalen!!!

Good to get the young ones into the shooting sports.

plinkin pete · Post by **plinkin pete** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:43 am

Not Whalen, beer! no he was doin straight shots of fresh air:)

Modoc ED wrote:I wanna know who drank the beer out of the can? Hope it wasn't Whalen!!!

Good to get the young ones into the shooting sports.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:10 pm

You waited until he was TEN...? The poor kid's got a late start in life now - he'll have to work hard to catch up...!

Just stress safety, even though 'air' rifles and pistols are viewed by many as 'toys'.

Get one of those steel flip-up targets (better yet, two), and a .22 rifle with good sights (peeps or a red-dot scope), and see which one of you can flip up the four bottom targets the fastest. We'd 'handicap' the adult by them using a bolt-action and letting the kid use a levergun or semi-auto, or we'd get two kids going simultaneously with identical .22's. One game we did was to let the kid's shoot each other's TOP target (it resets and flips down the four others) if they wanted; it took extra time, but got you ahead of your competitor.

A couple kids can go through 1,000 rounds easily in one afternoon doing that. (according to the news media, that's two 'arsenals' of ammo

).

Jaguarundi · Post by **Jaguarundi** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:37 am

Good for you to be teach'n the young'n.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:48 am

Excellent! We all need to do this several times per year. The anti's are trying their best to ensure fewer and fewer people have a person attachment to this most important of rights and freedom. We need to make sure the opposite occurs - that the next generation of firearms enthusiasts is larger and more dedicated than the current one.

Good man!!!

El Chivo · Post by **El Chivo** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:36 pm

stress safety, I just heard about a kid who shot himself with a pellet gun and died, may have been a ricochet or maybe unsafe handling.

1894 · Post by **1894** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:23 am

Thanks Pete !!! Whatever the age , getting folks interested and learning the safety fundamentals is allways a good thing

ps and if you ever need more cans to shoot at , I'm right down the road in syr .

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