Posted on 11/25/2018 1:00:05 PM PST by SJackson
In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle of the night, tossing our tired bodies in the back of his hitched-up pickup truck, and having us fishing out on Lake Erie by the break of dawn. Come fall and winter, we found ourselves bundled up out in the middle of nowhere, hunting turkeys and deer with my dad. Although we lived in the city, my dads heart was in the country. Hunting and fishing are in our familys blood.
For many years, life separated me from such pursuits. When my oldest son, Caleb, reached around seven years old, he started to show a keen interest in trapping and hunting. He made makeshift bows, slings, and other weapons, vainly chasing squirrels and rabbits across the yard. I dont think he ever hit a moving target with his makeshift weapons, save perhaps his siblings.
So I started teaching him how to trap (in order to protect our livestock, especially the chickens). He even made a few of his own traps and once caught a young possum by hand! But he wanted the big prize: a buck.
So I promised him that this year we would hunt deer together. Hunting is a big task for a young boy, and it requires a lot of preparation.
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Interesting how just a few years back all was good with kids and firearms - today even if a kid just mentions a gun in school they’re suspended. Remember that idiot teacher who sent a kid to the office because he ate the corner off a Pop Tart and he said it looked like a gun?
Yep. It is insane. I think it is just the morons running the school, young people do not seem to hate guns. My kids and grandkids all like shooting and so do their friends. I always see young people at the ranges I go to.
Liberals continue to constantly keep us entertained.
Chipmunk.
When my grand daughter was eight {she is now 16} I introduced her to target shooting with a scoped 22.
She was a natural and shot 8 out of ten bulls at 25 yards. She got so good that I convinced her dad to get her a good target 22 rifle and a real, professional instructor. He did.
She started shooting competition, and did very well and then discovered boys and her interest in competitive shooting has diminished.
When she comes to visit, we still go out and shoot a couple of hundred rounds, and she is very good, but she has lost the desire to go after it hard, and I'm OK with that.
I believe that she could excel in the sport but you've got to want it.
She loves to shoot my pistols, so I'm happy that I've got another shooter {and female member of the NRA} in my family.
Ahh. Thanks!
You meet the nicest/best people through shooting.
You have every reason to be very proud of her.
And CONGRATS to you too!
Our family comes from a long line of competition shooters and the shooting industry...it seems to be in the blood.
B/c of the local involvement in the industry, all the nearby schools have shooting clubs; kids get picked up after school, and go to the range for instruction, and have competitions most weekends.
FWIW, the sport takes a lot of skill, and practice. And when you get to the *bigs*, it gets very expensive.
When Dad died, I got his guns and since we both sighted the same, every one of them was already set up as if I had sighted them in.
I'm a US Army to expert, and NRA Sharpshooter with only one bar. GOD I miss my DAD.
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