Son's first night at the range

[ddavidson]

Normally, I might fire upon an intruder but I just couldn't do it this past Christmas when Santa Claus was bringing my son his first gun, a Mossberg 500 Bantam 20 gauge.

Here is his first day with it. After a while of him shooting single shots getting comfortable with it due to him being extremely nervous, I finally let him fill it up and unload.

We'll be back soon to start working on his form but this was mostly to get past the fear of the first time shooting the gun as well as getting familiar with the range rules and how to interact with others on the range, even though we were the only ones on this one.

 

[JohnP82]

Awesome!!!! Congrats to him! Keep up the good work

 

[Tydeeh22]

glad you got him started early. it will stay with him forever.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Poor kid had to wait four months to shoot it? Cheers to him for patience

 

[Dwight]

Great to see you working with your son. Taking small steps is the way to get things done the right way. Congrats on a new shooting buddy!

 

[ddavidson]

Thanks all. He was so nervous about his first shot. After that first shot, he said it kind of hurt but then went ahead and emptied the box of rounds.

We were at MCFG so we checked out the trap shooting that was going on. That was very cool and I'll likely give that a shot at some point. There was some very impressive shooting going on last night.

 

[Kev]

Looking forward to doing this someday with my kids as well... (they are still 5-5-2)
Glad to see the responsible use of eye/ear protection!

 

[backfire]

That's awesome and props to you for teaching him! Enjoy those fun first times.