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How to teach kids to use guns?
I'm a gun-fanatic and have a collection of over 100 guns from all over
the world. I like shooting and hunting animals with my various guns and rifles and I want to teach my kids to use guns as soon as possible. Do you think that 3 and 4 year old kids are old enough to learn shooting and hunting or should I wait another year? |
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"Gerry Lintonice" wrote in
ups.com: I'm a gun-fanatic and have a collection of over 100 guns from all over the world. I like shooting and hunting animals with my various guns and rifles and I want to teach my kids to use guns as soon as possible. troll Do you think that 3 and 4 year old kids are old enough to learn shooting and hunting or should I wait another year? i learned to shoot at three, shooting at bottles in a creek. my son is 5 & not really ready to learn to shoot as he's not good at paying attention to his surroundings. we have done some target shooting with him, but he needs real close supervision. no 3 or 4 year old has the patience to "go hunting" unless you don't expect to *see* any game, never mind shoot any. kids that age are noisy, wiggley & get bored easy. unless you want them to *hate* hunting, leave them home until closer to 10 or 12. if you want to do outdoors stuff with 3 or 4 year olds, go fishing. lee -- war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength 1984-George Orwell |
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"Gerry Lintonice" wrote in message ups.com... I'm a gun-fanatic and have a collection of over 100 guns from all over the world. I like shooting and hunting animals with my various guns and rifles and I want to teach my kids to use guns as soon as possible. Do you think that 3 and 4 year old kids are old enough to learn shooting and hunting or should I wait another year? Of course! Kids and guns go together like egg rolls and duck sauce. Give your kid a shotgun, have him point it at your head, and tell him pull the trigger. Ta-da! No more trolls from Mexico! |
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To be honest with you teaching a 3 or 4 year old to shoot a gun would
be a mistake. Read the articles at this website link and I think you would change your mind: http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs....508290407/1075 Here is portion of the news articles that I copied and pasted from that website: The 2-year-old Fort Myers Shores boy who was shot at his home Sunday remained is in critical condition in a St. Petersburg hospital on Monday, according to Lee County sheriff's officials. The boy's name is Philip A. Blasone, said sheriff's spokesman Angelo Vaughn, and his parents are Phillip James Blasone, 38, and Kristen Kohl, 26. Similar incidents include: " In October 2003, a 6-year-old boy accidentally shot his 6-year-old cousin in a Lehigh Acres home with a Hendry County sheriff's deputy's gun. The gun was in the deputy's top dresser drawer. The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, but survived." B.J. at http://tinyurl.com/e42cq |
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In article . com, Gerry
Lintonice says... I'm a gun-fanatic and have a collection of over 100 guns from all over the world. I like shooting and hunting animals with my various guns and rifles and I want to teach my kids to use guns as soon as possible. Do you think that 3 and 4 year old kids are old enough to learn shooting and hunting or should I wait another year? In my state, kids can't hunt until they're twelve. What's your hurry? Banty |
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"dejablues" wrote in
news:Js7Se.3168$aG.9@trndny01: "Gerry Lintonice" wrote in message ups.com... I'm a gun-fanatic and have a collection of over 100 guns from all over the world. I like shooting and hunting animals with my various guns and rifles and I want to teach my kids to use guns as soon as possible. Do you think that 3 and 4 year old kids are old enough to learn shooting and hunting or should I wait another year? Of course! Kids and guns go together like egg rolls and duck sauce. Give your kid a shotgun, have him point it at your head, and tell him pull the trigger. Ta-da! No more trolls from Mexico! at least this post was more amusing than the one he posted on misc.rural. that one was just boring (& pretty much the same one we get every time school is back in session) lee -- war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength 1984-George Orwell |
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"enigma" wrote in message . .. "dejablues" wrote in news:Js7Se.3168$aG.9@trndny01: "Gerry Lintonice" wrote in message ups.com... I'm a gun-fanatic and have a collection of over 100 guns from all over the world. I like shooting and hunting animals with my various guns and rifles and I want to teach my kids to use guns as soon as possible. Do you think that 3 and 4 year old kids are old enough to learn shooting and hunting or should I wait another year? Of course! Kids and guns go together like egg rolls and duck sauce. Give your kid a shotgun, have him point it at your head, and tell him pull the trigger. Ta-da! No more trolls from Mexico! at least this post was more amusing than the one he posted on misc.rural. that one was just boring (& pretty much the same one we get every time school is back in session) This person posts in just about every group I look at. I think the cross-posting (which I removed) is an attempt to get traffic in obscure groups. |
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"Business Services" wrote in
oups.com: To be honest with you teaching a 3 or 4 year old to shoot a gun would be a mistake. Read the articles at this website link and I think you would change your mind: http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs....e?AID=/2005082 9/NEWS01/508290407/1075 actually a child that is taught how to properly shoot *and* to respect guns, is far less likely to shoot a playmate/sibling. a child that knows about guns knows they are not toys, they are tools with a specific purpose, and you don't play with them. my 5 year old is a bit scatterbrained sometimes, but he would not ever play with a gun. he knows better. yes, we have guns. yes, he knows how to shoot, clean a gun (his favorite part), break it down & put it securely away (we store guns in one place, ammo in another & the bolts in a third, none of which the kid has access to. i realize there is a rabid anti-gun segment of the population, but i don't live in a city. i don't live in suburbia. i'm a farmer. guns are a tool, like a tractor or a horse team. they are a necessity to protect my livestock from predators & add food to my table. lee -- war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength 1984-George Orwell |
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"dejablues" wrote in
news:qTgSe.44$jh7.7@trndny06: at least this post was more amusing than the one he posted on misc.rural. that one was just boring (& pretty much the same one we get every time school is back in session) This person posts in just about every group I look at. I think the cross-posting (which I removed) is an attempt to get traffic in obscure groups. no, trolls "score" each other on responses, which are crossposted to the obscure groups in the followups so they can be tracked easier. they don't really want to have to read the trolled group to see responses. lee -- war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength 1984-George Orwell |
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In article . com,
"Gerry Lintonice" wrote: Do you think that 3 and 4 year old kids are old enough to learn shooting and hunting or should I wait another year? Yes. You and your kiddies should get a one-way ticket for a chopper into New Orleans to see the shooting demonstrations there. Make sure you drink the water; it's very good for you. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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