Dad’s reloading assistant in training

[justinp61]

Anything you can do with your child is great, our time is our greatest gift to them.

Having said that today's society frowns on most firearm related activities. My grandson was 6 and at school playing with a friend. He was telling his friend about his nerf gun, another student overheard the conversation and told the teacher. My grandson was taken to the principal's office and my daughter called in from work to the school. She was asked all kinds of questions related to firearms. Does your son have access to your firearms? How are your firearms stored? That kind of stuff. My daughter and son in law don't own a single firearm, she told them that and was still grilled. In the end they wanted my grandson to see a child psychologist. My daughter told them to pound sand that my grandson was a normal 6 year old boy. In the end it went no farther, but with firearms present in the house could've had a bad ending. One thing to consider is that he is in a school district that had recently had a school shooting.

2018 Marshall County High School shooting - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[nealm66]

Things have changed so much. They had gunsmith class at my high school and every pickup parked at the school had a gun in the gun rack during hunting seasons

 

[Varmint Hunter]

When I was in high school, we had a rifle range in the basement and a competitive shooting team. When the school was rebuilt, they "forgot" to build a new range. Can you imagine a rifle range in a NY school today? LOL

 

[DakotaFire101]

That is awesome. My son is almost 2 and not the most coordinated little fella yet but he loves to help me pull cases out of the tumbler after they've been cleaned and he's really good at shaking the **** out of each case to get all the walnut media out of them. It makes a mess but nothing feels better than watching him enjoy a small part of what I also enjoy. He also can't stand to watch me shoot my bow without getting right in there and "flinging" a few arrows himself.

 

[sierracharlie338]

That's awesome bud. My daughter loves to help too. I sure do let her!

 

[Calvin45]

Anything you can do with your child is great, our time is our greatest gift to them.

Having said that today's society frowns on most firearm related activities. My grandson was 6 and at school playing with a friend. He was telling his friend about his nerf gun, another student overheard the conversation and told the teacher. My grandson was taken to the principal's office and my daughter called in from work to the school. She was asked all kinds of questions related to firearms. Does your son have access to your firearms? How are your firearms stored? That kind of stuff. My daughter and son in law don't own a single firearm, she told them that and was still grilled. In the end they wanted my grandson to see a child psychologist. My daughter told them to pound sand that my grandson was a normal 6 year old boy. In the end it went no farther, but with firearms present in the house could've had a bad ending. One thing to consider is that he is in a school district that had recently had a school shooting.

2018 Marshall County High School shooting - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That's sad all around. I can understand tho everyone being on edge after such a tragedy as well.

We're teaching him to be responsible and always take guns of any kind seriously, never joke about shooting people or things like that.

He's a very responsible kid, typical oldest child haha - and his being on the autism spectrum means he's extra strict and diligent about all things being as they should, law and order around here haha, rocks his world more
Than most if things are out of place or being used incorrectly - having three younger siblings is the best thing in the world for him and he's the best thing in the world for them…his two year old brother was gonna run out into the street and he just football tackled him into the concrete and screamed "nooo!!! We always watch for cars!!! Don't you know you could die??"

When I was in high school I did soemthwjg truly moronic thinking it'd be funny and I shot off a cap gun in class as a distraction. Some kids got truly terrified. One of the most thoughtless and stupid things I ever did.

Got a week detention and my dad put me to work shoveling manure…not a vacation from school haha. But while he in no way approved of what I did he shook his head a bit and i assumed it was cuz of me upsetting him and I said sorry again

He said "No I know you're sorry, I think you've learned…it's just…when I was in school we were afraid of the Russians killing us, not our classmates"

 

[Calvin45]

That is awesome. My son is almost 2 and not the most coordinated little fella yet but he loves to help me pull cases out of the tumbler after they've been cleaned and he's really good at shaking the **** out of each case to get all the walnut media out of them. It makes a mess but nothing feels better than watching him enjoy a small part of what I also enjoy. He also can't stand to watch me shoot my bow without getting right in there and "flinging" a few arrows himself.

Awesome stuff…got 3 boys and a girl. The youngest boy is 2 and an absolute monster, I wouldn't let him near anything too important yet haha. HULK SMASH!!!!

He's actually heavier than his 4 and 5 year old brothers and not just baby fat or ahything like that: his hands, his feet, and his head are all bigger than his big brothers already, no doubt whatsoever he's going to be the biggest of the bunch by a lot (but the oldest still rules the roost regardless, just the natural order of things) Last summer when he was barely 2 I witnessed him grab a 25 pound weight and lift hit up to his chest just to see if he could and he was laughing haha

He and the middle bro fight a lot, always wrestling, mostly in good fun…but recently he got his vice grip mitts on his brothers ear and wouldn't let go…said brother screamed and just hammered his face with his little fists for all he was worth before I broke them up…and that psychotic toddler was LAUGHING while
Getting punched in the face and refusing to release his grip. NOTE (and I told the middle child this, he did start the fight) : do not mess with someone who laughs in your face while you're wailing on his as hard as you can haha.

we got our Hands full with him. When we go out one of us (wife and I) manages the other three kids and the other the 2 year old boy-hulk and usually the parent with the other three has the easier task

 

[justinp61]

Things have changed so much. They had gunsmith class at my high school and every pickup parked at the school had a gun in the gun rack during hunting seasons

We didn't have a gunsmith class, but the rest was the same. I can remember the entire ag class walking to the parking lot to look at someone's new gun in their vehicle.

 

[Bob Wright]

All of my junior hunter grandkids reloaded their ammo with me and tested at the range. They all enjoyed hunting with their own ammo and being successful when it counted. It is a lot of fun.

 

[Calvin45]

All of my junior hunter grandkids reloaded their ammo with me and tested at the range. They all enjoyed hunting with their own ammo and being successful when it counted. It is a lot of fun.

Looking forward to the "it's for the kids" excuse being a viable one regarding purchases….but dang it, those kids are gonna end up actually wanting the stuff!!!! Then what will I do?

 

[Ol' Red]

Looking forward to the "it's for the kids" excuse being a viable one regarding purchases….but dang it, those kids are gonna end up actually wanting the stuff!!!! Then what will I do?

I just buy two of everything to start with.

 

[Bob Wright]

Looking forward to the "it's for the kids" excuse being a viable one regarding purchases….but dang it, those kids are gonna end up actually wanting the stuff!!!! Then what will I do?

Works like a champ! Except for 2) 300 Rums I brought home one day..dang. She knew they weren't pellet guns.