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What age do you think kids should start shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="RevJim" data-source="post: 1897914" data-attributes="member: 86754"><p>I was started at 8 yrs old ( 59 yrs ago) with my Dads Stevens .22. We went right out squirrel hunting, shot my first one the next day. By the time I was 10yrs old, I had my own Stevens ( my dad insisted on a single shot). I was allowed to take my .22 and my dogs (bare footed) and "spend all day" shooting snakes miles behind my house in a big marshy area/oilfield! ha I had to be home "by supper". I explored, shot hundreds of cotton mouths, water snakes, Copperheads, rabbits, birds...you name it. I drank water out of ditches, rice canals, whatever. Never took a lunch. I did take some "Luck Strikes" or chewing tobacco I "filched" from Dad, ha. Only problem I had was selling enough coke bottles (for the deposit) to keep me in ammo! 75 cents a box for Long Rifles, 60 cents for Shorts. I shot alot of Shorts on snakes. But I really liked shooting coiled up moccasins with the LR Hollow Points! Yeah! Sadly, for the majority of kids, those days are gone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RevJim, post: 1897914, member: 86754"] I was started at 8 yrs old ( 59 yrs ago) with my Dads Stevens .22. We went right out squirrel hunting, shot my first one the next day. By the time I was 10yrs old, I had my own Stevens ( my dad insisted on a single shot). I was allowed to take my .22 and my dogs (bare footed) and "spend all day" shooting snakes miles behind my house in a big marshy area/oilfield! ha I had to be home "by supper". I explored, shot hundreds of cotton mouths, water snakes, Copperheads, rabbits, birds...you name it. I drank water out of ditches, rice canals, whatever. Never took a lunch. I did take some "Luck Strikes" or chewing tobacco I "filched" from Dad, ha. Only problem I had was selling enough coke bottles (for the deposit) to keep me in ammo! 75 cents a box for Long Rifles, 60 cents for Shorts. I shot alot of Shorts on snakes. But I really liked shooting coiled up moccasins with the LR Hollow Points! Yeah! Sadly, for the majority of kids, those days are gone. [/QUOTE]
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