Prof Young
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Five year old grandson Rhys is a Nerf gun nerd. Loves to have nerf gun wars and the latest thing was making a nerf gun shooting range in the basement. Somewhere along the way we ran across the old pump up pellet pistol and the pellet trap. Fetched some safety glasses from the gun room and next thing you know we are learning to aim with a "real" gun. Learned first two rules which in this case are "Don't go down range until range boss (me) says you can." and "Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot." I experimented before I let him shoot. Three pumps were enough to get to the target and penetrate it at the short distance we were shooting. Had Rhys dry fire a few times before I loaded him a pellet. Shooting at a six inch target from about two yards he started the off the paper and about five shots later was about three inches from the bulls eye. Gun is really too heavy for him to hold with two hands on grip so I had him support the stock (with strong warning about keeping hand behind the muzzle). I'm fairly sure he gets the difference between the pellet gun and the nerf gun. He talked about the pellet gun in terms of it being a "real" gun. His brother was shooting the cricket 22 when he was only five, but his brother isn't quite as frenetic. May need to find a short stock BB gun to proceed.
Life is good.
Prof Young
Life is good.
Prof Young