Do you have any shots of your kids with shootin' irons, boy or girls? Let's see them. Here's my son one year old in 1983. Then a couple months ago in Yosemite. And me in the early 60's.

GREAT photo! He reminds me of Mark McCain on The Rifleman.

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S&WChad, Yeah, maybe. but I called my dad Dad, not "Paw! Paw!" The rifleman killed about four guys a week. Everytime him and Mark went to town he ended up shooting bad guys but he never bought his kid a gun. He must own about 600 extra guns from all the guys he shot. Couldn't he give Mark one. If anybody, the Rifleman would know they come in pretty handy since he used his so much.
Jeez. I think I think too much.

Here's my oldest son from a couple of years ago when he was home on leave -


And about 6 months ago in Afghanistan -


And our younger boys at the range from about 5 years ago -

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WC145, give your oldest son a big pat on the back for all of us. And not just for being left handed like me and my son. My kid is out of the Marines but works in Afghanistan and we hiked Yosemite on his last vacation. That pic. is from that hike. Those two bottom pics are great! Look at the enthusiam on your boy's faces. I wish the Brady gun ban folks came across this thread.

Here is the son....



This will be his first gun when he gets old enough.

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My nephew shooting a 4 inch Mod 34 last summer.



We'd just bought it at a gunshow and the ink-stamp from the show is still on the back of our hands.

GF

My son Ed(he's 9) this Christmas getting a Remington Model 1917



Last summer shooting his first reloads in a 32 S&W Long Webley

The last two photos are of my boys proudly displaying custom rifles built and given to them by my father; their grandfather.

This is me, circa 1954, shooting my trusty Winchester Model 69A rifle near Lookout Mountain on the desert north of Phoenix.

John

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Son Ty at 20 with my 629-1 3" with factory loads.

My son in 2003, age 16, with his American Arms Silver Lite II 20 gauge O/U and a very dead crow.

My 19 year old boy has a couple of guns that I bought for him over the years, but he spends more time with a lacrosse stick in his hands these days....



That's him on the right.

He was MVP on his high school team last year and now plays in college.

He "shoots" the ball pretty good!

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But this one has to be my favorite.



My Boys with their Grandfather's and Great Grandfather's shotguns.

Here is my son at the start of the Iraq war. He said he was only a tourist over there, working for the DOD.



Here he is squatting in a pile of captured AKs.



Here he is just before his second deployment on the Nimitz. He was a navagaitor, REO on an EA-6B Prowler. He was a little dissapointed that they didn't get to fire their missles on his tours. The next flight did.

Picture of my Grandson Tyler, Son Eric, and myself taken in July 2009 just prior to Eric's second deployment to Afganistan (he returned safely in Sep 2010). I had the honor of giving Tyler his first shooting lesson. By the way, Tyler is the Great-grandson of Major George C. Nonte. Ty's Mom is Major Nonte's Granddaughter and quite the shooter in her own right.

Some of you Old Timer shooters will know who Major Nonte was.

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