some of you may remember this pic of my youngest son Jeb. Here he is at 5 yrs old picking out his first rifle. We slaped on a scope that came off of my Grandfathers 300 savage. I think ol Pop would of liked that.
now, here he is a year later sportin a fruit-punch stash and ready to go.
Had to give him a year to grow into the chipmonk 22 mag.. ....at the time of the purchase his gun handling skills still needed some work and the gun didnt fit him yet. We would work on it periodically...my first and most important lesson with him is safety...to always point the gun in a safe direction and check if it was loaded every time he picks up a gun. Even as we get into actual shooting the lesson of gun control still gets drilled in. Im very proud of him and his progress over the last year.
the boy can shoot!
after sighting it in for him.
I set him up at thirty yards, first he shot at see-um targets....we set up some plastic bottles filled with water (he likes when the blow up.) after some work with him he was dead on. at forty yards he shot a old shotgun shell twice, I thought he got lucky the first time so I had him do it again....same result, shot shell gets blasted. I moved him out to 50 yards and pretty much the same results......Next weekend will be at 100 yards. He cant wait!
here is a pic of him getting comfortable....not loaded, just getting familiar with what he wants to do.
here he is at three...This year it might be him holding the rack.
now, here he is a year later sportin a fruit-punch stash and ready to go.
Had to give him a year to grow into the chipmonk 22 mag.. ....at the time of the purchase his gun handling skills still needed some work and the gun didnt fit him yet. We would work on it periodically...my first and most important lesson with him is safety...to always point the gun in a safe direction and check if it was loaded every time he picks up a gun. Even as we get into actual shooting the lesson of gun control still gets drilled in. Im very proud of him and his progress over the last year.
the boy can shoot!
after sighting it in for him.
I set him up at thirty yards, first he shot at see-um targets....we set up some plastic bottles filled with water (he likes when the blow up.) after some work with him he was dead on. at forty yards he shot a old shotgun shell twice, I thought he got lucky the first time so I had him do it again....same result, shot shell gets blasted. I moved him out to 50 yards and pretty much the same results......Next weekend will be at 100 yards. He cant wait!
here is a pic of him getting comfortable....not loaded, just getting familiar with what he wants to do.
here he is at three...This year it might be him holding the rack.
