Awfully large hog leg for those little mitts!
Kin John Kerry git him a huntin’ license theah?
I had a good upbringing with guns, starting with spring BB guns, to lever compressed air BB guns, then .22 shorts, .22LR, then a shotgun, and finally pistols, which I remember I didn’t like at first because they were too short and far less accurate. I got over it.
Somewhere in there I developed a fondness for knives and studied karate, which I liked a lot more for the fighting theory than the actual fisticuffs.
But the one itch I could never scratch was archery. Be it longbow, compound bow or crossbow, I felt I missed out on a big part of weapons craft. You shoot a few hundred BBs, and you really learn the BB gun; but you have to shoot a few hundred arrows to get the *zen* of archery.
And recently, with the popularity of the animated movie Brave, and The Hunger Games, there is a window of opportunity for both boys and girls who may be hesitant with guns, to still learn some weapons skills that will eventually carry over to guns.