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I showed my son my handgun once and he was then obsessed with it. I don’t want him to be a serial killer so I haven’t brought it up since haha. I’ll have to ease him into it somehow too
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Don’t make it accessible obviously but let him play with toy guns and let him see you handle it & shoot it. Talk about it. Show him how to handle guns but by using toy guns for the lessons and use the toys to implement safety. The less foreign it is to him the better off he’ll be.
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I agree 100%. Definitely don’t want them to be foreign to my boys. I think it’s important they’re raised to respect them for their uses and to know about gun safety
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100% man. You’ll be glad down the road. Tools, not weapons
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For about one second I thought this pic was weird, but then I remembered that the first gift I got for Christmas from my parents was a .410 single shot. I was three months old.
My dad loved hunting so much and was so eager to get me into it that he bought me a shotgun when I was an infant. IIRC, I shot one dove with that .410 when I was just old enough to legally hunt, and then spent my own money to buy a 20 gauge Mossberg Model 500.
Both of those guns are in my gun safe right now.
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Out of curiosity and as a fellow hunter, what made you think it was weird, even for just a second? I was about like you in regard to how my guns started rolling in.
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It was the child holding a suppressed high-power rifle. 100% the suppressor.
I think I'm a bit older than you at 43. Suppressors for any firearm weren't even a thing that was available or popular when I was living close enough to home to get to regularly hunt... I think they might have been mostly illegal. Now, my cousins have suppressors on all sorts of rifles. They say its about protecting their ears, but I prefer my active noise cancelling muffs, and think they like suppressors mainly because they look cool.
In conclusion, if it were a pic of a 4 year old holding a Remington 870 Wingmaster or Express, I don't think I'd have thought anything other than "Awesome!"
I can argue with you or my cousins about the value of suppressors later if you want, but I don't want.
BTW, cute kid. He's got a very happy face.
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No argument here bud. I was just curious. I don’t disagree that they look a little out of place in comparison to what we grew up on. I’m sure most guys own suppressors now to “look cool”. Took me a long time to want to own one but will 100% say for me it’s the noise canceling and recoil reduction that gets the win.
Last year I cost myself a real good buck bc I was trying to get the earmuffs on the kids. This year that wouldn’t have been a problem but we didn’t see the buck we wanted. Although my 4yr old said “they’re all the right one, Dad. Shoot!”
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How did you all do in the NE firearm season? I wasn't able to make it back, but the three hunters on our Platte River ground all took doe's in the last hour of legal shooting on Sunday.
My brother told me that opening morning was exciting, but the rest of the whole season sucked.
My brother told me that opening morning was exciting, but the rest of the whole season sucked.
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That’s a lot of safe fawns in the spring.
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Not enough but it all helps
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Miss the old days where we'd hunt these with 85 full sized blazers flying through fields blasting away with mini 14s. Good times with the old man.
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Good ole ranch rifle with the round peep style sight is hard to beat when rolling with accuracy by volume!
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That’s a good night. Using thermals?
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Yep, using thermals and have suppressors on guns. Was doing a 24 hour calling competition being geld out of Republican City. Was a very strange night of calling but was still a good night.
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Was this a big group thing or you have just the few days ever.
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My friends I had down for that day contest primarily only hunt thermals at night. We all had suppressors but I do not have a thermal, yet. Thinking of becoming a pulsar dealer and ordering one.
After our contest we went out and used their guns. Same exact spot we had no luck on one set during the day, we called two right through cattle on stalks and killed them both. Was literally picture perfect the way it worked on my first ever thermal set. Go figure, my buddy didn’t record it
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That’s how it happens and using thermals is a complete game changer for us. We hardly do any day calling anymore, just a little easier doing night calling with thermals. We both have last years Bering optics Super Hogsters and they are amazing.
