paintballdude902
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one day when i was 16 i had 3 guns a 12 guage my dad got me for my 16th birthday(first gun) my enfield (first rifle) and the ruger single sixxe in .22lr/mag (i present from my dad becasue he was proud of me for doing good in school, getting a job and just generally realizing that my time for screwing around in school was coming to an end and buckling down). there was a man there while i was shooting my enfield that just had this bewildered look on his face trying to find out what kind of gun i was shooting that looked like an smle but was in .308 i told him and let him shoot a few times and he thanked me and went back to his .30-30 , then when i was shooting my single six a man that i had never met before walked up and handed me a .357 and said "have fun ive got some round left over and i love watching kids get into shooting" that was the first centerfire pistol i ever fired and loved it i shot only 6 shots, but it was the most fun i ever had. the next range trip i met a marine named pete and he was showing me tips with my enfield gave me 2 strippers of austrailian .308 and said "i bet you'll cut your groups in half with this" and i did he said the problem was i was using pakistani crap he went through and showed em all these tips and gave me his name and email address if i had any questions and that we should meet up again and hed coach me some more weve been friends for going on two years now, still shoot together every few months and head to the local gun shows every time they are in town
ive made great friends at the range shooting and every now and then when im there and i see a kid shooting a .22 ill go ask if he wants to shoot a few shots from my .30-30 or if they are a bit bigger my enfield or .30-06. its my kind of way to repay the people that have helped me along the way. now i try to get my non shooting friends to come to the range or my fram with me for a day of fun, i pay for ammo in hopes that i can add a few more people to the list of gun supporters. i just feel like its my duty to the people that helped me and now that i can to do the same for others so what if it costs me some money im at the range to blow it away anyways, and believe me when you see a 12 year old shooting his first .22 and you let him fire a lever action or some gun that he grew up seeing in the movies they have a great look on there face and it makes it all worth it
some of these kids families cant afford bigger gun or or the price of ammo for them to shoot much, i can afford to take a punch in the wallet for a kid now and then and im sure alot of you can too. take a kid shooting, or let a new shooter of any age fire a gun they havent yet and you will have just made a great memory for them
infact im waitign for my 13 year old nephew to come out so i can teach him to shoot his first real gun
ive made great friends at the range shooting and every now and then when im there and i see a kid shooting a .22 ill go ask if he wants to shoot a few shots from my .30-30 or if they are a bit bigger my enfield or .30-06. its my kind of way to repay the people that have helped me along the way. now i try to get my non shooting friends to come to the range or my fram with me for a day of fun, i pay for ammo in hopes that i can add a few more people to the list of gun supporters. i just feel like its my duty to the people that helped me and now that i can to do the same for others so what if it costs me some money im at the range to blow it away anyways, and believe me when you see a 12 year old shooting his first .22 and you let him fire a lever action or some gun that he grew up seeing in the movies they have a great look on there face and it makes it all worth it
some of these kids families cant afford bigger gun or or the price of ammo for them to shoot much, i can afford to take a punch in the wallet for a kid now and then and im sure alot of you can too. take a kid shooting, or let a new shooter of any age fire a gun they havent yet and you will have just made a great memory for them
infact im waitign for my 13 year old nephew to come out so i can teach him to shoot his first real gun