There's still hope for today's youth...

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motorep

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My teenaged daughter brought home a new friend tonight- Hi, Dad, meet my friend____, he graduated second in his class last year, etc,etc,etc. (yawn,yawn,yawn). "How do you do,sir, your daughter tells me that you guys like to shoot now and then" What a nice, polite kid. It turns out that he has, in no specific order- a Ferret scout car, his own half-track, a collection of WW1-era machine guns, 1 M16A1, a collection of a couple/three hundred camo uniforms from all corners and times of the world, and on and on. Is in the National Guard, father is former door gunner. I'm not going to let this one get away- I mean, well, my daughter's not, well, you know....
 
Sounds like a keeper....but here's a tip from a former teenaged daughter: Don't let on that you want him to stick around. Nothing fans a girl's interest in a guy more than just a teensy bit of parental resistance...but I probably didn't have to point that out.... ;)


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*quack*
 
I think it's a little too late for those tactics, the basic intro in our house is "show your friend my office", 3 walls covered mainly with shooting trophies and plaques. It usually brings an "uh oh, I'd better watch my ass" response. In this case the response was "oh, cool, hey what do you use for your 3 gun rifle? I've got a 16" Bushmaster that'd probably be just the thing". Well, it is, because that's what I use. Then it was the shotgun, then the pistol, then everything else. This nice kid is 19 and has his C&R license. Maybe I should just adopt him...
 
If things don't work out with those two crazy kids, maybe you can trade your daughter and a nephew to be named later for that kid . . .

Why am I calling him a kid? I'm 21 for God's sake--I sound more like my dad every day . . . :rolleyes:
 
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