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Originally Posted by RWebb
...I'd say we need more safety training. It's obvious he didn't grow up in a "gun culture" like I did. Every 9 year old in my neighborhood know bullets could skip.
Your Dad gave you a Daisy BB gun sometime in elem. school. Later, you'd graduate to a pellet gun, and after your Dad and other adults thought you'd passed muster, a "real gun" a .22 (I got a Winchester - I agree re the nice Rugers as per above tho). Then a 20 gauge, and as an adult, a 12 gauge. Every step came with training - informal - from the adult men in the area that you and your Dad hunted with, shot with, picnic'ed with etc...
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I shot my first 12 ga on a Thanksgiving day under my dad's guidance in the fields on my grandfather's farm when I was 9 years old...I remember it well even though it's been almost 40 years. When "paw-paw" passed away a few years later, I received his shotgun, a 16 ga double barrel farmer's "work gun" that had been passed down from my great, great, great grandfather
