Fellow six gunners might find this amusing!

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h518may

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Recently I took my ten yr old son shooting for the first time. I took my xd45 and I rented a walther 22 for him. The gun kept jamming and having failures to feed. Now I suspect it was due to it being a range gun that was heavily used, maybe not cleaned real great, and probably some limp wristing by my son. However he wants us to shoot revolvers next time cuz 'they won't jam'!! That there boy iz smart!!;)
 
My 11 year old daughter is the opposite. She says she doesn't want to shoot one of those "old fashioned" guns. :confused:
 
Ghosts of Art Linkletter

Kids do say the funniest things. .... ;)
Once during one of our M/L class, while going through the loading steps, there was a young girl that raised her hand and asked;

"Isn't that a whole lot of trouble to go through, just to get off "one" shot ??

Now that is one smart kid !! ..... ;)

Be Safe !!!
 
Smart boy! :D

I was amused by the story . . . 50 + years ago my Dad took us shooting with a friend and he took his Hi Standard "Sport King" along - the friend had a 22 revolver. Dad had MAYBE shot the Sport King once and he really wasn't an accomplished pistol shooter. It kept jamming and then jamming more - feeding problems. I remember we were all frustrated! My Dad's friend let me shoot his revolver and pretty much taught me all of the safety to go with it. The Sport King resided in my Dad's sock drawer for the next 30 + years - after my Dad's death, I took it as my brother doesn't like pistols. Nothing had changed . . it still was a "problem gun" and I quickly traded it off on a .22 revolver (the Sport King had no sentimental value at all). I doubt if that old Sport King had more than a box of shells run through it . . the revolver I traded it for has had probably 50 boxes through it. There's just something about a good "wheel gun" . . . . :roll eyes:

I love hearing about Dad's taking their kids shooting. You are creating some really nice memories for them that they'll treasure years from now. Not every child is so fortunate! My Dad has been gone for twenty years and I still miss him . . . but those memories of doing things with him sure help to put a smile on my face. :)
 
Facepalm.

It's just not true, no matter how many hundreds of billions of times it continues to get trotted out as fact. And for most, it'll take a revolver stopping (typically, with absolutely NO CHANCE of rectifying it quickly) to alter this skewed perception of reality on a person-by-person basis.

To the subject, I agree... terrific tale of a young shooter that sees (what seems to be) obvious, and I love that a young kid wants to explore all the facetsof handgunning and that TV and movies hasn't corrupted him too far so that he finds a revolver undesirable. I'm absolutely on board with all of that and I love that you're relaying the tale. :D

But to the core of the FAR too often held idea that revolvers are simple and never jam and semi-autos fail so often? Arrrrgh. We may as well teach everyone new to guns that the simple racking sound of an empty 12-gauge pump shotgun makes all the bad people run, 30 mph, in a straight line, away from their planned attack. :( It's... umm..... crap. It's like Joe Biden kinda crap.
 
As a lover of BOTH style of firearms I DID explain to him why the gun was probably malfunctioning so much and he understood. I fully plan on teaching him that BOTH have merit.
 
My 8 year old grandson likes my Ruger Blackhawk w/ 4-5/8 barrel in 357/9mm. He told one of his friends it was his or at least it might as well be because he shoots it so much.
 
Geeze . . . how did a thread about a father taking his sone shooting and the remark he made end up as a "revolver versus semi-auto thing".

Most of the folks my age grew up with Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Gabby Hayes and The Cisco Kid. That's probably one of the reasons we look on the revolver with fondness. After all . . . if you remember . . . they could ride their horses while shooting and NEVER have to reload . . not to mention some pretty terrific shots at long distances. (Hmmm . . . were they shooting "double stack" revolvers?)

I don't think anyone was really saying one was better than the other - any experienced shooter knows that both wheel guns and semis can have problems. If you can't see the humor in an innocent remark made by a young man then maybe you shouldn't have that extra cup of coffee in the morning . . . you're wound way too tight. :D
 
Load up my GP100 with 38spl and in the hands of my 11 year old, it's more accurate than anything. She even enjoys shooting a few cylinders of .357 too.

She's not a fan of my semi's. Doesn't care for the manual of arms.
 
Folks, .22 revolvers are more reliable than .22 semis. I own 3 semis and 2 revolvers. Any of the 3 semis malfunction more than both revolvers. Fact.
 
It would have been priceless to get your son's expression on video the first time the semi jammed.

I'd probably have paid for a poster of that look on his face as he fought to get the gun to run right. :D
 
robhof

I own an aged Ruger single 6 and a relatively new Neos for my wife, and she prefers the Ruger, because of the problems with the Neos, So both my wife and I prefer the wheel guns for dependability, at least for 22's. I have a M9 that has fired flawlessly for several hundred rounds, and my son's H&K 45 has had many rounds through it with no problems.:confused:
 
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