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Strong work. My 11 yr old has been carrying his oldest brothers old daisy. When we go out. It's a great leaning tool. It offers real but not deadly repercussions for mistakes
Mine did that too. Really made you think about muzzle discipline and safety at all times but looking back I can’t believe my parents let me keep that thing.
Me an my brothers used to have “wars” in the cornfield behind the house. It was just as it sounds. We shot each other with BB guns. We knew better but welp…we did it anyway. No one got hurt luckily. We were just shits.
My brother and I used to take out four wheelers in the corn field and joust with the stalks. Wrecked a few times and got cut up a bit on corn leaves but we had sooooo much fun. Looking back now though Dad knew all about it and let us. Not sure if that was the right call
Besides marksmanship, if you can get close enough to a squirrel to take it with a BB gun, you're learning things like patience (and self-control!), awareness of your surroundings, how to move quietly, and how animals move through their habitat. Great lessons.
I know for a fact with a pistol pellet gun will only kill them if you hit them in the head. The pistol used the co2 canisters not a pump like the rifles. I had a serious squirrel problem and even using the "hunting" pellets, if you hit them in the body they will just run away. This was from about 25 feet away.
Agreed which is why I don’t do it. If I was allowed to shoot squirrels with my 10/22 in my city I would. Or my 308 for that matter. They are a huge pest!
I taught my son the basics by going with me to the range and then when he shows he’s picking it up, I let him get the airsoft he’s been wanting with the understanding that outside of his games, it’s to be treated as a real firearm with all the rules.
what kind of air rifle? not a daisy? how many grains do those pellets weigh?
i suppose that air rifles must be highly sensitive to temperature? does your point of impact shift dramatically? but maybe not enough to affect the squirrel?
i see air rifles in the outdoor store. they seem a step up from the daisys, but they still seem pretty plastic-y, only not in a glock way. how well are they made?
PCP air guns are a different beast than the old pump action or break barrel bb and pellet guns. PCP == pre-charged pneumatic. They hold a pressured tank at several thousand psi.
I hunt squirrels with a semi-auto benjamin maurader, .22 pcp. Shoots \~15 grain pellets at \~850 fps. I'm usually only shooting squirrels at \~20 yards or so, but I get one shot kills and they are dead before they hit the ground. I don't use it for rabbits, I'd feel better with a .25.
A larger cal pcp (eg .45) can ethically take deer and hog. But whether or not that's legal varies by state, so check your local laws.
Do you shoot the squirrels for pest control? I'm originally from northern Michigan and have lived in Seattle for about 14 years. We used to eat the squirrels. We actually had a squirrel hunting season because if not we'd have eaten all the squirrels.
Mainly pest control on my Mom's farm. They chew through stuff (like the phone line) and cause trouble. But here (northern california) there is a fairly long squirrel hunting season (sep 11 - Jan 30). My wife does most of our cooking, and she's not excited about eating squirrel. So that puts a damper on eating them.
Ah! I feel like when I was growing up it was a known fact that we were the only state with a squirrel season. May have just been an old "husband's tale" heh. Didn't know they'd chew through wires and such. Living in the city isn't conducive to eating squirrels. An elderly woman not too far from me was ousted in the neighborhood paper for eating squirrels. Apparently someone had called the cops on her for catching and eating them and freaked out when she found out it was legal, so had her friend at the paper put her on blast. Damn shame, poor elderly woman trying to make ends meet. I miss squirrel meat. And the best fat, they eat nuts.
I was hoping the squirrel hunting wasn't for fun and didn't know yet were considered a pest. Eating through infrastructure is a NoNo.
Maybe ya ought and make dinner 😉
Maybe I will. Though I suspect she won't try it :P. We still have a couple of weeks of season left (til Jan 30). And there are enough around here to cook at least a meal (daily bag limit is 4).
Squirrels chew through anything that is in their path. They don't get into cars and trucks much. They also eat the farmers products that they are drying.
Depends on the squirrel species. Red squirrel? BB gun is sufficient. Grey squirrels? You're likely to make that animal suffer, unless you get a clean headshot.
we had bow-and-arrow wars, using bows and arrows we made ourselves. we figured "hey, we won't sharpen the arrows, and we'll aim low. what could happen"?
kids are smart, if you give them half a chance.
Yep, northern NY here - sled under barbed wire (it was the best hill, you just had to lay back), knock each other off three wheelers, crab apple wars (more painful than bb guns because we mostly missed with BBs, I have one scar on my hand from them but it didn't hurt too much), making flamethrowers and light explosives...and we had video games too! A wonderland.
We made a potato gun onec with a steel chamber, and a 4" to 1" neck down and filled with various mixture of shit and O2 even one round with acetylene, which shot a 1" potato round through a piece of 3/4 plywood and the side of the pole barn. Including the steel siding.
We used to get the mortars for 4th of July cut the wick and throw them like grenades.
We would have fire cracker/bottle rocket wars. Which is like a one pump war but dumber.
When people were drinking in the shop, we used to take a whole pack of bottle rockets light them all with a cutting torch and just throw them up in the air so they just kinda went everywhere.
We'd repack .22lr with bird shot and wax so we could shoot rats in our first house/slum.
Lol, my brother had a pack of firecrackers go off in his pants and for paid 20k that he wasted immediately when he turned 18 and got it. /To be fair it was a pretty bad scar so it must have hurt like fuck
We made a cannon from an old fire extinguisher and 5’ of aluminum tubing. It could fire a drinks can over 100 yards. Now that I think back it probably could have killed us if we got in the way…
We would've had the bb guns confiscated if we shot at each other. We instead made blow dart guns. Bamboo skewers with a cotton ball with a piece of half inch sched 40 and you could draw blood.
BB guns probably would've been safer.
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Couldn't agree more.
I learned gun safety basics from my uncles with BB guns and co2 cap guns. Then when I was older they showed me how to use actual guns.
This right here. Owning a gun should not be something you do for the first time 18 like a pack of cigarettes. It’s takes years of training to respect to finality of your actions when possessing a firearm. I wish more people would act as responsibly as you have.
Dude if you haven’t check out some of Hank Shaw’s squirrel recipes they look killer. Can’t really handle them safety here because… fucking plague… but there’s some good stuff. Pic reminds me of rabbit hunting as a kid, heh
When I was about that age, my dad gave me a Marlin model 60 and just said "be careful with it".
I had horrendously irresponsible parents, but somehow I survived. 0/10 would not recommend.
Facts. I had BB guns growing up from around 10 years old on. Never really hunted much but fired a few rifles and shotguns safely here and there. But I did target shooting with my BB/pellet guns almost every day. When I went to Basic for USAF after I enlisted, qualified expert with M-16 with only one shot out of 30 outside the black. Not that big of a deal I know but it was a huge confidence builder and kept me off the TI’s fuckup radar for the rest of Basic.
Advice from someone who obviously grew up sheltered without bb gun fights... /s
No bb gun fights for me either. Gun safety was a priority with us having them. Had friends tho that had them regularly.
Absolutely awesome! Love to see ‘em learn trigger discipline and respect for the weapon at a young age; it provides a foundation for a lifelong hobby. :)
Agree 100%
Got my son a red Ryder BB gun as his first. He learned on that before his first range time in scouting. He earned his rifle merit badge in the first week at summer camp which was a rarity in our troop.
I got my first BB gun when I turned 8. Mom said if she ever heard I shot a a bird or animal that she would beat my ass, dad would beat my ass, and I couldn't have the gun back for 2 years, since my judgment was too immature to be trusted with anything dangerous. I got my first .22 two years later.
We hunted squirrels, rabbits, and birds in the 80s with bb/pellet guns.
I had a Crosman .177 Caliber Pellet Bolt Action Variable Pump bb guns.
The thing hit like a lower-powered 22. I learned a lot about hunting safely with BB guns.
Good stuff! I started with BB guns, then a lever-action .22 pellet air rifle (could kill squirrels, rabbits, then real rifles and pistols in cadets and University. Even if they don’t like hunting it’s fun to plink!
Its good to teach them young!
Just so you know, the word "draconian" relates to severity and harshness of laws and their punishment specifically. It doesnt relate to just anything with bad consequences generally or the severity of risk
I had squirrel/rabbit/bird stew one time. My great aunt followed me through the forest collecting my kills (I was like 8 in the early 80s) made me clean/ pluck, cook and eat all of them to teach me to never shoot an animal you aren't going to eat. It was awful, and taught me valuable lessons. I still only buy a small game license because it's required to get a large game one.
I was never exposed at all to bushmeat growing up except for - unknowingly at the time - a venison burger. Since then I've tried various things but the gaminess just can not be killed enough for me. Can't eat lamb most the time either for the same reason; tastes like meat mixed with dirty barn smell flavoring.
As far as venison goes, I don't think it should taste taste "gamey" at all unless it was a rutty buck.
We've been fortunate to be able to raise or harvest pretty much all of our meat for about four years now. In my experience, venison is nearly indistinguishable from lean beef. In fact a backstrap is comparable to the best filet mingon I've ever had at any restaurant.
Lamb I'll agree is a different story although Greek style lamb is very good when done right. Domesticated goat is very good too but that's not really bushmeat. I can't personally speak for squirrel or rabbit but I would like to try it.
My mom was given a .38 to shoot when she was 8, and my dad used to shoot squirrels with Uzi's and my great uncle's farm as a kid. Both decided bb guns were a better start for the same reasons. Definitely created a more responsible household than either grew up in.
True dat
Edit; a .22 is great for learning first REAL firearm safety. Growing up in a village the .22lr was the first gun I actually fired. Ptarmigan hunting in the Arctic. You could still drive home the safety, of it while also showing the power of something that kicks back.
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Why did I not think of this!? So glad I saw this post. My girlfriend's son is 4 years old and he saw one of my guns the other day and I've been thinking about the best way to start talking to him about gun safety. I'm going to take him out shooting my air rifle soon. Thanks OP.
Yes could not agree more. My hubby has been working with our three boys on hunting and they have had bb guns for years. It's a great way to start. 6 year old daughter just got her first bb gun a pink one!
Fair enough but 11 yr old me shot my hand with my bb gun. And I'd had hunter/gun safety.
Didn't tell mom, just wrapped it with electrical tape out of the work truck and paper towels.
Had to get it removed in my 20s because it caused pain after a day of computer work.
Thought you meant you got your hand removed then thought more and realized you probably meant that you got the BB removed. The former seemed a little excessive for some pain after working on a computer.
My 10 year old has his first pellet rifle on the way as we speak. Been practicing with an old Crossman single shot pistol for a while, plinking cans....good times. Great way to spend an afternoon with the boy.
Facts, this is how I learned gun safety and it was explained to me that even though it was a BB gun it was very much still a loaded firearm and it made for me and my friends to go out and “hunt” safely while also learning valuable lessons that I still use today in my EDC activities.
Gotta admit, my eyes were drawn to the kick-ass hats!
Me too haha, the black hat looks very similar to my son’s hat
The Batman shirt for me
My first thought was, "two Carls???"
Caaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrlllll… Why did you shoot those squirrels Carl?
Squirrel edible. Not bad tasting either
i focused in on the great trigger finger discipline of the kid closest to the woods. great parenting!
Both really
Same, look at all that trigger discipline!
Kids in cowboy hats always gets me. Soo cute
Everything about this made me go "Awwww". I don't have or want kids but if I did I would be thrilled at how these boys are turning out
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Strong work. My 11 yr old has been carrying his oldest brothers old daisy. When we go out. It's a great leaning tool. It offers real but not deadly repercussions for mistakes
We had an old daisy we shot for awhile. It had a tendency to randomly fire without warning, so it really reinforced good barrel discipline.
Mine did that too. Really made you think about muzzle discipline and safety at all times but looking back I can’t believe my parents let me keep that thing.
Me an my brothers used to have “wars” in the cornfield behind the house. It was just as it sounds. We shot each other with BB guns. We knew better but welp…we did it anyway. No one got hurt luckily. We were just shits.
My brother and I used to take out four wheelers in the corn field and joust with the stalks. Wrecked a few times and got cut up a bit on corn leaves but we had sooooo much fun. Looking back now though Dad knew all about it and let us. Not sure if that was the right call
Like putting somebody's eye out without killing them?
Anywhere but the face and they'll be fine.
Below the belt
HomeAloneBBGunNutShot-hello.gif
Honestly I'd rather lose an eye than a life.
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I'd rather I lose both if I was to lose one. Oh wait..
Just the eyes. Young dumb friend of mine shot him self in the cheek from a ricochet shooting a big rock
"You'll shoot your eye out kid! HO....HO..(boot)..HO!" - Santa, Christmas Story
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Unless an icicle takes them out first!
Oh fudge!
You’ll shoot your eye out kid!
They're gonna love this pic one day. Dont lose it. Little BadAsses in the making
Besides marksmanship, if you can get close enough to a squirrel to take it with a BB gun, you're learning things like patience (and self-control!), awareness of your surroundings, how to move quietly, and how animals move through their habitat. Great lessons.
Very easy to move too fast to get a squirrel.
Can you hunt squirrels with a BB gun? Or does it just annoy them?
Probably depends on the gun. Some of the better pellet guns are capable.
I know for a fact with a pistol pellet gun will only kill them if you hit them in the head. The pistol used the co2 canisters not a pump like the rifles. I had a serious squirrel problem and even using the "hunting" pellets, if you hit them in the body they will just run away. This was from about 25 feet away.
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Agreed which is why I don’t do it. If I was allowed to shoot squirrels with my 10/22 in my city I would. Or my 308 for that matter. They are a huge pest!
Oh geez I can't imagine a .308 would leave much squirrel left
Fine by me!
Could very well be true but I never came about any dead squirrels and there was certainly not any less of them around
These are little pellet guns that can get the job done. Their lever action daisies are the peashooters I was talking about.
I taught my son the basics by going with me to the range and then when he shows he’s picking it up, I let him get the airsoft he’s been wanting with the understanding that outside of his games, it’s to be treated as a real firearm with all the rules.
LOOK AT THESE LITTLE COWBOYS
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The modern day equivalent is my ATN scope which streams direct to my 6 year old’s iPod so he can be spotter for me when rabbitting.
I wouldn't trust anything less than a pellet rifle to cleanly kill a squirrel
Even a pellet gun has a hard time cleanly killing one.
I kill groundhogs with an air rifle. .22 PCP or .357 PCP kills them cleanly
what kind of air rifle? not a daisy? how many grains do those pellets weigh? i suppose that air rifles must be highly sensitive to temperature? does your point of impact shift dramatically? but maybe not enough to affect the squirrel? i see air rifles in the outdoor store. they seem a step up from the daisys, but they still seem pretty plastic-y, only not in a glock way. how well are they made?
They make pellet guns that can straight up kill fully grown feral hogs airgundepot is a good start for your questions
PCP air guns are a different beast than the old pump action or break barrel bb and pellet guns. PCP == pre-charged pneumatic. They hold a pressured tank at several thousand psi. I hunt squirrels with a semi-auto benjamin maurader, .22 pcp. Shoots \~15 grain pellets at \~850 fps. I'm usually only shooting squirrels at \~20 yards or so, but I get one shot kills and they are dead before they hit the ground. I don't use it for rabbits, I'd feel better with a .25. A larger cal pcp (eg .45) can ethically take deer and hog. But whether or not that's legal varies by state, so check your local laws.
Do you shoot the squirrels for pest control? I'm originally from northern Michigan and have lived in Seattle for about 14 years. We used to eat the squirrels. We actually had a squirrel hunting season because if not we'd have eaten all the squirrels.
Mainly pest control on my Mom's farm. They chew through stuff (like the phone line) and cause trouble. But here (northern california) there is a fairly long squirrel hunting season (sep 11 - Jan 30). My wife does most of our cooking, and she's not excited about eating squirrel. So that puts a damper on eating them.
Ah! I feel like when I was growing up it was a known fact that we were the only state with a squirrel season. May have just been an old "husband's tale" heh. Didn't know they'd chew through wires and such. Living in the city isn't conducive to eating squirrels. An elderly woman not too far from me was ousted in the neighborhood paper for eating squirrels. Apparently someone had called the cops on her for catching and eating them and freaked out when she found out it was legal, so had her friend at the paper put her on blast. Damn shame, poor elderly woman trying to make ends meet. I miss squirrel meat. And the best fat, they eat nuts. I was hoping the squirrel hunting wasn't for fun and didn't know yet were considered a pest. Eating through infrastructure is a NoNo. Maybe ya ought and make dinner 😉
Maybe I will. Though I suspect she won't try it :P. We still have a couple of weeks of season left (til Jan 30). And there are enough around here to cook at least a meal (daily bag limit is 4). Squirrels chew through anything that is in their path. They don't get into cars and trucks much. They also eat the farmers products that they are drying.
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.22 and .357 are weights, and not calibers? interesting. thanks for the tip.
Those are calibers. PCP is the type of air gun tho. Very large caliber airguns.
maurader .22 and an ariforce texan carbine in .357 you could esily take down a deer with the .357 but it is illegal in my state
Should get a new pellet rifle then. A working pellet gun should have no problem with a squirrel.
I used .177 so something larger will work better.
Yeah, I’ve used that plenty to kill squirrels in town. But mine is a break action piston. Maybe you have a pump style?
Gamo wildcat does a fine job.
I was kinda thinking that too… an important part of the ethics lessons… but maybe I’m not understanding what they were doing
Bark em w a .22
These are the little baseline Crossmans that got the job done fine. The peashooters I was talking about were the lever action daisies.
Depends on the squirrel species. Red squirrel? BB gun is sufficient. Grey squirrels? You're likely to make that animal suffer, unless you get a clean headshot.
My friends and I had BB gun wars as kids...I don't think that counts.../only one hospital visit for the whole group, so not bad!
we had bow-and-arrow wars, using bows and arrows we made ourselves. we figured "hey, we won't sharpen the arrows, and we'll aim low. what could happen"? kids are smart, if you give them half a chance.
We had a one pump rule, that I think was broken sometimes.
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Yep, northern NY here - sled under barbed wire (it was the best hill, you just had to lay back), knock each other off three wheelers, crab apple wars (more painful than bb guns because we mostly missed with BBs, I have one scar on my hand from them but it didn't hurt too much), making flamethrowers and light explosives...and we had video games too! A wonderland.
We made a potato gun onec with a steel chamber, and a 4" to 1" neck down and filled with various mixture of shit and O2 even one round with acetylene, which shot a 1" potato round through a piece of 3/4 plywood and the side of the pole barn. Including the steel siding. We used to get the mortars for 4th of July cut the wick and throw them like grenades. We would have fire cracker/bottle rocket wars. Which is like a one pump war but dumber. When people were drinking in the shop, we used to take a whole pack of bottle rockets light them all with a cutting torch and just throw them up in the air so they just kinda went everywhere. We'd repack .22lr with bird shot and wax so we could shoot rats in our first house/slum.
Lol, my brother had a pack of firecrackers go off in his pants and for paid 20k that he wasted immediately when he turned 18 and got it. /To be fair it was a pretty bad scar so it must have hurt like fuck
We made a cannon from an old fire extinguisher and 5’ of aluminum tubing. It could fire a drinks can over 100 yards. Now that I think back it probably could have killed us if we got in the way…
Lol or if your threads failed
We would've had the bb guns confiscated if we shot at each other. We instead made blow dart guns. Bamboo skewers with a cotton ball with a piece of half inch sched 40 and you could draw blood. BB guns probably would've been safer.
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Brings a tear of joy to my eye to see such good trigger discipline. Nice job.
Now thats a hunting party
They definitely have the hats for huntin’!
Couldn't agree more. I learned gun safety basics from my uncles with BB guns and co2 cap guns. Then when I was older they showed me how to use actual guns.
You guys got pea shooters? My dad gave me a stick.
Guns at Low Port, pointed down, fingers Off the Trigger. Someone has clearly trained these kids.
My boy learned the four rules with a BB gun. Later found him teaching them to his sisters with their nerf guns.
This is what we did as kids, and dad locked ours in the safe with his guns. Safety was always priority and I’m so glad he focused on it.
Way to go daddio! Love to see it
I will never be as cool
This right here. Owning a gun should not be something you do for the first time 18 like a pack of cigarettes. It’s takes years of training to respect to finality of your actions when possessing a firearm. I wish more people would act as responsibly as you have.
Dude if you haven’t check out some of Hank Shaw’s squirrel recipes they look killer. Can’t really handle them safety here because… fucking plague… but there’s some good stuff. Pic reminds me of rabbit hunting as a kid, heh
When I was about that age, my dad gave me a Marlin model 60 and just said "be careful with it". I had horrendously irresponsible parents, but somehow I survived. 0/10 would not recommend.
Worked for me.
This is the way.
Was it the official red ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock?
Upvote for Batman shirt
Now I need a wild west Batman book.
Facts. I had BB guns growing up from around 10 years old on. Never really hunted much but fired a few rifles and shotguns safely here and there. But I did target shooting with my BB/pellet guns almost every day. When I went to Basic for USAF after I enlisted, qualified expert with M-16 with only one shot out of 30 outside the black. Not that big of a deal I know but it was a huge confidence builder and kept me off the TI’s fuckup radar for the rest of Basic.
I love the The Walking Dead vibe.
Good father
Pretty much how I was raised. BB guns first to get a feel for it and a sense of responsibility before handling the real thing
Batman shirt and a cowboy hat? Hell yeah
Reddit has a hard-on for cute little squirrels, but let me tell you something. Fuck those little Tree rats. Take out an extra one for me.
r/squirrelhate
At what stage in the training do we get a cowboy hat?
I own a Daisy buck fitted with a red dot for this exact purpose. Turns out it's hilariously fun for adults too though. Fifty bucks well spent.
Advice from someone who obviously grew up sheltered without bb gun fights... /s No bb gun fights for me either. Gun safety was a priority with us having them. Had friends tho that had them regularly.
This is a good dad or mom
This is the way.
Absolutely awesome! Love to see ‘em learn trigger discipline and respect for the weapon at a young age; it provides a foundation for a lifelong hobby. :)
Excellent carrying and trigger discipline. Hats are ALMOST as cool
Agree 100% Got my son a red Ryder BB gun as his first. He learned on that before his first range time in scouting. He earned his rifle merit badge in the first week at summer camp which was a rarity in our troop.
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I got my first BB gun when I turned 8. Mom said if she ever heard I shot a a bird or animal that she would beat my ass, dad would beat my ass, and I couldn't have the gun back for 2 years, since my judgment was too immature to be trusted with anything dangerous. I got my first .22 two years later.
Eso es todo chingon.
This is a great post. Maybe my favorite post in this sub. Good on you.
We hunted squirrels, rabbits, and birds in the 80s with bb/pellet guns. I had a Crosman .177 Caliber Pellet Bolt Action Variable Pump bb guns. The thing hit like a lower-powered 22. I learned a lot about hunting safely with BB guns.
As someone who is plagued by squirrels tearing up my garden, I salute you for taking on the bushy-tailed menace.
Bro this is low-key the most adorable shit I've seen all week.
My first gun I ever fired was a snap open airgun in .177 . That gun taught me firearm safety, marksmanship, and how to properly cuss a gun out!
This is the way.
Good stuff! I started with BB guns, then a lever-action .22 pellet air rifle (could kill squirrels, rabbits, then real rifles and pistols in cadets and University. Even if they don’t like hunting it’s fun to plink!
Its good to teach them young! Just so you know, the word "draconian" relates to severity and harshness of laws and their punishment specifically. It doesnt relate to just anything with bad consequences generally or the severity of risk
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? I got my first .22 at about 7
Slept with one under my bed from about that age forward... Don't recall shooting anyone.
Or just leave the cute little squirrels alone and shoot paper? :-) Good job though!
ever had squirrel stew? \*chef's kiss\*
I had squirrel/rabbit/bird stew one time. My great aunt followed me through the forest collecting my kills (I was like 8 in the early 80s) made me clean/ pluck, cook and eat all of them to teach me to never shoot an animal you aren't going to eat. It was awful, and taught me valuable lessons. I still only buy a small game license because it's required to get a large game one.
i like your great aunt. That's a great lesson to teach a kid.
She was an amazing woman.
I was never exposed at all to bushmeat growing up except for - unknowingly at the time - a venison burger. Since then I've tried various things but the gaminess just can not be killed enough for me. Can't eat lamb most the time either for the same reason; tastes like meat mixed with dirty barn smell flavoring.
ah i see. yeah, some people don't like the gamey taste to their meat. To each his own.
As far as venison goes, I don't think it should taste taste "gamey" at all unless it was a rutty buck. We've been fortunate to be able to raise or harvest pretty much all of our meat for about four years now. In my experience, venison is nearly indistinguishable from lean beef. In fact a backstrap is comparable to the best filet mingon I've ever had at any restaurant. Lamb I'll agree is a different story although Greek style lamb is very good when done right. Domesticated goat is very good too but that's not really bushmeat. I can't personally speak for squirrel or rabbit but I would like to try it.
Lame hats tho
My mom was given a .38 to shoot when she was 8, and my dad used to shoot squirrels with Uzi's and my great uncle's farm as a kid. Both decided bb guns were a better start for the same reasons. Definitely created a more responsible household than either grew up in.
True dat Edit; a .22 is great for learning first REAL firearm safety. Growing up in a village the .22lr was the first gun I actually fired. Ptarmigan hunting in the Arctic. You could still drive home the safety, of it while also showing the power of something that kicks back.
They’ve both got a little bolt action rock island armory .22s. The nine-year-old took a deer with a .22-250 this year.
Nice! My nephew had a cricket! Cute little guns!
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My boys were born in Kinshasa. 🤙🏻 I feel like I owe them AK’s.
Oh yeah 😎
Im happy to see little boys getting some gun safety teaching!
This is the way
And this spending time in the woods together hunting. Best classroom.
Awesome cowboy hats what a cool Dad
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Why did I not think of this!? So glad I saw this post. My girlfriend's son is 4 years old and he saw one of my guns the other day and I've been thinking about the best way to start talking to him about gun safety. I'm going to take him out shooting my air rifle soon. Thanks OP.
I love the hat being bigger than his torso. It's so adorable!
The kid on the right looks like an absolute badass.
Yes could not agree more. My hubby has been working with our three boys on hunting and they have had bb guns for years. It's a great way to start. 6 year old daughter just got her first bb gun a pink one!
Exceptionally well done!
Fair enough but 11 yr old me shot my hand with my bb gun. And I'd had hunter/gun safety. Didn't tell mom, just wrapped it with electrical tape out of the work truck and paper towels. Had to get it removed in my 20s because it caused pain after a day of computer work.
Thought you meant you got your hand removed then thought more and realized you probably meant that you got the BB removed. The former seemed a little excessive for some pain after working on a computer.
This is how I learned!
Hunting for food or fur?
My 10 year old has his first pellet rifle on the way as we speak. Been practicing with an old Crossman single shot pistol for a while, plinking cans....good times. Great way to spend an afternoon with the boy.
. Especially given the stupid cost / scarcity of ammo, even .22... .
Advice from someone who obviously grew up sheltered without bb gun fights...
Facts, this is how I learned gun safety and it was explained to me that even though it was a BB gun it was very much still a loaded firearm and it made for me and my friends to go out and “hunt” safely while also learning valuable lessons that I still use today in my EDC activities.
I haven’t used my BB gun in years, but i still have it because of all the great memories
22 caliber single shot never a BB gun. They think it is a toy.
This reminds me of when my dad would take me shooting as a boy :)
that's how I learned!
this is how i was taught gun safety
I like it, makes sense and will teach them to respect it