I had the opportunity to take my son and his college buddy shooting this afternoon at a local indoor range. My son's friend had never shot a firearm before and was excited to have the chance to try shooting. After going over the four rules and particularly handling a handgun properly, I started my son's friend off with a Ruger 22/45 with one round in the magazine. We did this ten times so the young man could get a feel for it. Well after a few tries, the kid was actually getting shots close to a bull at 15 feet. While I was giving instructions to his buddy, my son was shooting away with my CZ 75B and doing very well at 25 feet. Then we started back and forth introducing the "new kid" to other handguns. With some careful instruction I let the new kid shoot some "bunny fart" .38 special loads out of my 686 with only one in the cylinder at a time. Amazingly the "new kid" was really concentrating, followed the rules and did quite well. My son was having a field day helping his buddy "get the hang" of it. In fact they were both doing very well and, most importantly, both were carefully listening to me and following the four safety rules. Now my son wants to bring his buddy back again to shoot some more.