Remind your friends and family to stay safe and be careful out there and keep a childs first gun a pleasant one.

If I may so humbly edit your text.

I see guys handing their kids and significant others large caliber firearms that kick the snot out of them and the muzzle blast and sound deafen them, then laugh at their reaction. Punks, every one.

Merry Christmas!

Ed

Thats fine, and i completely agree. My thumbnail is just for attention. lol he is a few years away from trying that one.

Have seen it several times. Idiots.

A person's first experience with firearms should be pleasant. They can work into the heavier calibers later if and when they want to. A 22lr is still my firearm of choice.

I used to shoot Red wasps going into the lid of my butane tank. One came back, hit me in the forehead. I was lucky!

OK to give a good kid a BB gun..........but only if they shoot pellets out of it.
Much reduced ricochet risk.

I do not understand why people don't wear eye and ear pro when shooting. It is such a cheap and easy insurance factor.

Buy yourself a helmet. I shot 10's of thousands of rounds out of my BB gun with.......BB's! and never was harmed by a ricochet.

I had one come back and nail me in the shooting glasses as a kid.

Having two good eyes is so overrated.

I absolutely agree, Ed. Bullies, every one of them.

Took a 2LT on a convoy in Iraq, everything went ok. Next day he took a convoy out and had a bullet go thru the windshield
and hit him in the eye. He went to the big hospital in Germany. Don,t know if he lost the eye or not.

That sucks.

I have never suckered a newb into shooting a hard recoil gun.

Don't see the humor in that crap.

However, have had two ask to shoot my .44 magnums after watching me shoot.

I let them.
One was my wife............she thought it no big deal, but then she couldn't hit crap either.

One was my oldest daughter, when she was maybe 80# (she's now 26 and weighs 100#).
Petite like her mom.

She blasted a few and got mad, said on the way home she wanted to try again, not hitting the bullseye p*ssed her off.

Like that kid I do

The largest rig mom can shoot decent, is an all steel 9mm (P35).

Hookeye, when I was just out of high school I dated a beautiful young lady, last name of Stockton, who had her own 7.5" barreled M-29 S&W. She had killed two bears with that pistol, on two different occasions, trying to get her horses out on Homestead Road in Chugiak, in the two years prior to me meeting her.`

While not short, she was slender, and handled that pistol like it was an extension of herself.

Start 'em right, and they will turn into real shooters.

Ed