Do you set a good example?

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It is said one is an Ambassador by the way they carry themselves in everyday life.

Young lady is 4 years old, she has been raised around guns, shooting and all this encompasses.

She pays attention as most kids do, and mirrors what adults do. Parenting if you will, although some adults do not always think they are "parenting" in just being watched carrying out normal everyday activities of living.

She has a small single shot shotgun with a "barrel" made of PVC she uses for a "shotgun" to practice correct basic fundamentals of shotgunning.
Just an old cracked single shotgun stock, cut down to fit her, and she helped on finishing it out.
She looks right cute, standing on her mat, with little foot prints she can stand in to replicate correct foot position as she and mom do repetitions of mounting gun to face and other shotgun lessons with her "shotgun".

Safety Rules are followed and everything.

Seems it was time her "shotgun" was inspected and maintained too, since mom was doing hers.

Safety glasses, Nitrile gloves too big, tools, cleaning kit and ...

Mom takes apart her "shotgun" doing the "hard part" [how the barrel is attached].

Chamber is real important on a shotgun she informs mom, that is where most problems occur.
She goes to work twisting and turning cleaning that "chamber".
Everything is "inspected and maintained" - nothing was overlooked. ;)

He own bottle of lube , and lube is applied where needed.
Her own little jar of RIG+P and this goes on hinge pin.
Since mom's gun is a fixed choked shotgun they will be inspecting and all, well hers is too, so no need to check screw in chokes today.

"But, but, we do RIG stuff on on the ones with screw in chokes or that other stuff, I forget what it is called , but I know". [Anti-Seize]
Johnson's paste wax on the stock, protects and "makes it pretty".

Her gun "all done and ready" she has action open and sets it over there as instructed , where safe, how taught and now it is time to assist mom doing hers.

Seems a snack would be good before doing moms, so hands are scrubbed really good -"see" -and after the snack, a little lady with glasses, too big Nitrile gloves, is paying close attention and helping mom inspect, maintain, and get her shotgun "all ready and pretty too".

"Mom, we need to do your pistol tomorrow, and I get to do the barrel part again remember?"

Which she did with a brand new chamber brush and little package of brand new patches, which was great, since mom's brush was sorta "tacky" and mom was "really low on patches".

Seems this young lady removed from the trash can the packages the "tacky" brush come in, and the package showing what patches to use.
She and Grandpa were out and about ,and after the Fast Food "date" they went to a gun store.

From the little back pocket of jeans , crumpled packages are pulled out and shown to Grandpa, add some cute-ness, and flirting and Grandpa buys stuff for Granddaughter, because "I get to do the barrel part and mom's stuff is tacky". :D
Grandpa was eating this all up...

Mom is sharing with daughter some pictures, with model numbers, of some guns that she wants as "well we can't have your mom shooting "tacky guns" now can we? .:D

Grandpa is setting a great example of how to spoil a granddaughter. :p

Do you set a good example?


Steve
 
While I applaud you "sm" I am also thinking that 4 is way too young. Let kids be kids and decide later about shooting, etc.

I dunno, what do you others think?
 
Hmm, sounds like Training wheels to me, so the kid has plastic guns, welcome to earth, at lest she is learning respect and care.

My father taught me to shoot an actual real gun at 5 1/2, so I may be biased. (single shot 22, chained to the stump so it could only point downrange)

Morcoth
 
Some of my earliest memories concern firearms, Mom taught me to shoot a 22 before I was 5 probably. It was placed on a bench and I had to leave it on the bench when I shot. Mom was right there.

The only caveat I'd have about teaching young folks to shoot is to make sure eye and ear protection was on and effective.
 
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