Kalrog,
I sure a Shotgun slug or a .44 mag would be suitably impressive for an adult or a child.
My son and daughters are in their late 20s and early 30s and all say they remember me shooting the milk jugs and telling them "this is what will happen to you or your friends if you play with a real gun".
Grandchildren that are shooters seemed suitably impressed, but that will be a wait and see as they approach adulthood.
Jungle Work
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- Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:53 am
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- Topic: How do you talk to a 3 year old about guns?
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- Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: How do you talk to a 3 year old about guns?
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Shooting gallon milk jugs filled with water and red food coloring are fine ways to impress your childeren what a firearm will do and how powerful they are.
Just use a .223 rilfle or larger, Impressive for young children. Tell this is what a firearm will do to them if they shoot them selves with it or shoot they friends with it.
It's also advisable to tell your children what to do if they are at a friends house and the friend pull out his daddy's or mommy's gun.
Jungle Work
Just use a .223 rilfle or larger, Impressive for young children. Tell this is what a firearm will do to them if they shoot them selves with it or shoot they friends with it.
It's also advisable to tell your children what to do if they are at a friends house and the friend pull out his daddy's or mommy's gun.
Jungle Work
- Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:09 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: How do you talk to a 3 year old about guns?
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It all depends on the maturity of the child. My oldest Grandson and Granddaughter started shooting when they were almost four years of age.
They were required to discuss the word "responsibility" and "Safety" and tell me as best they could what it means. In addation they had to act in a responsible manner. Both wanted to shoot and were apt pupils with the BB Guns and later .22lr pistols and rifles.
My son started shooting .22lr and centerfire pistols at the age of three. He had spent many hours with me while I was cleaning my duty pistol and he cleaning his toy pistol. He learned safety early on before touching a real firearm. When we went to the range. a private LE Range, he would shoot for a while and then go chase bugs and look for rocks. He used to come and fire qualification rounds with his pistol when the PD I was Chief at qualified with their weapons. I had to stop him from shooting with the officers and he was the high shooter all the time. It hurt some of the officers feelings to have a 14 year old boy beat them. He's still a shooter.
I don't mind teaching children how to shoot, but they must exibit the maturity to learn responsibility and safety. My son in law is also a police officers and once when he was working midnights, my daughter thought she heard a prowler, she got her 3 inch Model 65 and went to check the doors to make sure they were locked. She then returned to bed and laid the pistol on the night stand. Early the next morning she was awoke by my grandson pulling on her arm. He looked at her and said, "Great news, the Tooth Fairy has left us a new pistol". He's ten now, very active in sports and a natural shot.
By the same token I have a seven year old granddaughter and a four year old granddaughter that I let shoot BB guns, but they are not ready for real guns.
Jungle Work
They were required to discuss the word "responsibility" and "Safety" and tell me as best they could what it means. In addation they had to act in a responsible manner. Both wanted to shoot and were apt pupils with the BB Guns and later .22lr pistols and rifles.
My son started shooting .22lr and centerfire pistols at the age of three. He had spent many hours with me while I was cleaning my duty pistol and he cleaning his toy pistol. He learned safety early on before touching a real firearm. When we went to the range. a private LE Range, he would shoot for a while and then go chase bugs and look for rocks. He used to come and fire qualification rounds with his pistol when the PD I was Chief at qualified with their weapons. I had to stop him from shooting with the officers and he was the high shooter all the time. It hurt some of the officers feelings to have a 14 year old boy beat them. He's still a shooter.
I don't mind teaching children how to shoot, but they must exibit the maturity to learn responsibility and safety. My son in law is also a police officers and once when he was working midnights, my daughter thought she heard a prowler, she got her 3 inch Model 65 and went to check the doors to make sure they were locked. She then returned to bed and laid the pistol on the night stand. Early the next morning she was awoke by my grandson pulling on her arm. He looked at her and said, "Great news, the Tooth Fairy has left us a new pistol". He's ten now, very active in sports and a natural shot.
By the same token I have a seven year old granddaughter and a four year old granddaughter that I let shoot BB guns, but they are not ready for real guns.
Jungle Work