morcey2
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I gave my 16 year old son a Winchester 1300 for Christmas. I picked it up at a pawn and got a really good deal on it. I've been hinting at since early October when I put it on layaway. Asking him if he's signed up for Hunter Safety yet, telling him he needs to read one of the several books on shotgunning that I have, teaching him how to disassemble and clean my 1300 (which he doesn't remember now, even though I showed him a couple of times). I put a huge emphasis on cleaning, which made Christmas morning very entertaining.
The last present that I had him open was a 12-gauge bore snake. He assumed that it meant I was irritated with him for not paying attention earlier with the cleaning lessons (at least he knows how to clean all of the rifles really well.) I let him stew on that for a few minutes. I got up like I was going to the kitchen to get something and made a detour to the front closet and retrieved the shotgun-laden case. He has really big eyes anyway, but they got huge when I started walking toward him. It was hilarious.
He said that his first thought was that I got a new shotgun case for my gun and was going to have him clean it until he saw that the furniture on this one was much darker beech (I think it's beech. It has the same grain as my beech M44 stock.) He squealed like a pre-teen girl who just got Justin Beiber concert tickets.
_NOW_ he wants to learn how to take it apart and clean it. :banghead:
_AND_ he's about 70 pages in to Shotgunning: the Art and the science.
It was Great!
Merry Christmas everyone.
Matt
The last present that I had him open was a 12-gauge bore snake. He assumed that it meant I was irritated with him for not paying attention earlier with the cleaning lessons (at least he knows how to clean all of the rifles really well.) I let him stew on that for a few minutes. I got up like I was going to the kitchen to get something and made a detour to the front closet and retrieved the shotgun-laden case. He has really big eyes anyway, but they got huge when I started walking toward him. It was hilarious.
He said that his first thought was that I got a new shotgun case for my gun and was going to have him clean it until he saw that the furniture on this one was much darker beech (I think it's beech. It has the same grain as my beech M44 stock.) He squealed like a pre-teen girl who just got Justin Beiber concert tickets.
_NOW_ he wants to learn how to take it apart and clean it. :banghead:
_AND_ he's about 70 pages in to Shotgunning: the Art and the science.
It was Great!
Merry Christmas everyone.
Matt