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Offline Nuttinbutchunks

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« on: November 16, 2004, 05:41:49 AM »
Every time for the past two years, when ever I get around my loading bench, or start cleaning or maintaining guns in the garage, my now nine year old son gravitates to that location and starts hanging around, asking questions and wanting to help.

Yesterday I was cleaning a .243 Handi, and he was hanging around as usual, I decided if he has that much interest I should start teaching him about the science of firearms, why I reload and what benefits it has, and that shooting is so much more than putting a shell in a gun and firing it. I got out the Speer powder manual and showed him that with different powders you can get different results. I showed him the different powders I have and how they look different. That pistol powder is different from rifle powder. Then I showed him on the computer how reloading data was easily obtainable.

He sat there and absorbed every bit of it like a sponge. Even Stevie Wonder can see that the shooting sports will bring us closer, and as he grows into a man he will love those things as I have. It was a great bonding moment (sob). It is time.
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Ohhhh, I hate when that happens :eek:

Offline MtJerry

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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2004, 05:55:40 AM »
My stepson is 8 and will be 9 in January.

We've had a few discussion like the one you described.  It is great fun watching them learn!
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2004, 05:57:25 AM »
yep its time ,, i will say this , enjoy all and every time he wants to just hang out with yu , shooting or not, the time u have with  them is so short it seems to be a blur , i have raised 4kids all out on their own now youngest 20 and up 23 25 27 iam all of them have made remarks over the years as to remember when we did? so enjoy it to the fullest,
plus hey he's atthe age u can buy him guns  which he will need later on  and u can make sure they are all sighted in and kept shot  for him hahhah
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Offline Deadeye47

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« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2004, 05:57:53 AM »
Congrats on your sons early days at Firearms U...hopefully he'll graduate Magnum Kum Loud some day!! :-D  I can remember my son wanting to help also...put him to work depriming and resizing at an early age too!  :toast:
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« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2004, 06:16:08 AM »
When my son and daughter were about 6-7 years old they would sit on my lap in front of the loading bench and "make bullets". They would operate the loading lever and watch wide eyed as the bullet would be completed by thier own efforts. To the day, 25 years later, my daughter fondly remembers the times "making bullets with Dad", and so do I  ....<><.... :grin:
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