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My daughter and I had a discussion tonight about guns, and packing at all times on the ranch, at the very least.

You see, one of her daughters was at the house while the other daughter was off somewhere with her dad. The two little grand kids was grocery shopping with their nana when nana got a phone call from the daughter at the house. She was trapped inside the chicken house because a mountain lion was pacing the outer fence trying ti find a way inside. Kay tried to call her boyfriend who was in the house, but he has a phone company who doesn’t have towers in the area. The chicken shed is a bit away from the house and down a hill so he never heard Kay screaming for help.

The house is full of guns and bullets, but Kay’s boyfriend doesn’t know that, and he never got any calls or crys for help anyway! So, she called her mom who was 25 miles away. Mom(nana) contacted her husband who rushed home from feeding cattle.

The took pics of the paw prints and notified the game warden...they can shoot the animal without any legal problems when it returns again.

The ggrand kids are turning 5 in a week, and they haven’t been to the ranch since October, and that was the last time that cat came around. It killed a goose and a turkey back then. So the grandbabies are at the ranch this weekend, and so is the cat.

I taught my own children gun safety and handling when they were little because I didn’t want any accidents on our ranch, and We needed to keep loaded guns. We used a powerful gun to knock a hole in an old vehicle. The vehicle is hard, feel how soft YOU are! That gun could hurt you bad. P.k

Then, we taught them how to use our .22 rifle which always held long, magnum hollowpoints, and was kept by the door.

So, my daughter and I talked about gun safety, and teaching children how and when.

My boy was 4 when I started teaching him, one of his sisters was 2 years older. By the time she was 8, she was one heck of a sure shot. I came home one niight to find about 20 dead skunks stound the chicken shed, courtesy of middle daughter. In the dark, no lights.

Oldest daughter’s kids learned at a very early age too. They feed their families on what they hunt. They dont miss. One of them became a sharp-shooter in the Army. He trained FBI men all kinds of stuff.

It’s important for all parents to realize that guns are out there and you never know when they will be in the presence of uour child. You don’t panic about that, you teach before it happens. They need to learn how to handle that kind of situation.

There’s a right way and a wrong way.

It helps tons if a police officer can and will teach it, or a certified/licensed gun safety instructor.

Adults who freak out around guns and hid their kids from guns are next to useless as parents. Those are the kids most likely to be injured, and overly curious.

A car us more likely to kill a kid than a gun will, yet we teach them to drive. On the ranch, they’re likely to learn sooner since they aren’t strong enough to buck bales at age 7, and someone has to drive the truck.