[Axeslinger]

I like to use a shotgun and a watermelon/cantaloupe. When I took my first son, we spoke at length about how it appears in the movies....get shot in the shoulder, next day guy's walking around with a sling on. Then I shot the melon and BOOM, nothing left.

His eyes still get big when he talks about it.

[Vob]

My father was a decorated WWII infantry soldier. When I was eight and my brother was six He did the same demonstration with the both of us. We remember is with clarity to this day.

When we went to high school most of the pickups in the parking lot had loaded guns in the back window and we knew how to use them well.

vob

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Yeah, that recoil lesson works too. I started teaching my kid to shoot at age 11, and the first thing he shot was my 12 gauge O/U. Yes it was a little too big for him and gave him quite a thump the first time, but it immediately changed any idea he had about guns being something in a video game for him.

He is now 19 and breaks Skeet targets (almost) as well as I do, and is going in to USMC early next month.