Tyrod
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So sometime in January I'm sittin in my kitchen and fiddling around with one of my S&W revolvers and my 22yo grandson starts asking me some handgun related questions. Now what you have to understand about this is that me and the grandson have never been, what you might call, close, even though he's lived next door to me his whole life. His mother has such tight apron strings on him that I was never able to do man stuff with him. His absentee father is useless and mostly unavailable.
It's not like we were hostile with each other and I've done all the things a grandad should do, I was there when he was born. I went to all of his graduations. I was there for some of his band performances I was there when he was awarded Eagle Scout. I've been in his life and see him every day.
In spite of all this the kid is an Eagle Scout and has achieved a high degree black belt in tai kwan do. I don't know which one, but he has to travel out of state to be tested for the next level as he's has had to do for the last 3 levels.
So, after talking to the kid for about an hour about revolvers, which I swear was the longest conversation we've ever had to that point, the kid went home. Later, I'm thinking to myself, I ought to give the kid a handgun. I had bought him BB & pellet guns before and he showed good common sense. I had this Sigma 40cal that I hadn't fired since new. I think I bought it when Clinton was elected. So, the next day, I gave him the Sigma. He was dumbstruck and asked all kinds of questions and we set up a date to go to the range.
On the day we went to the range, on the way, I'm quizzing him about range etiquette and I find out he doesn't know a thing about real guns and firing them. Then I was dumbstruck. I said to him "you're and Eagle Scout, didn't you have to get a merit badge in shooting?". He says nope, his troop wasn't set up for training for shooting and he's only fired a 22 rifle once on a BS campout.
So that's the status of Eagle Boy Scouts and the shooting disciplines.
The sad part of the whole thing is that I have a safe full of 22 rifles and I could have set up some training and shooting for his troop. If I had only known.
His troops new scoutmaster is very much into guns and has put a rifle training program into effect. He takes the kids well up into the high power stuff.
The whole situation was quite sobering. The good news is that when he started whining about the cost of 40cal ammo on a college students budget. I bought him a 22 pistol and we've gone to the range at least every two weeks since then. The bad news is that I'm gonna have to get some pro shooting lessons cause he's getting better than me.
It's not like we were hostile with each other and I've done all the things a grandad should do, I was there when he was born. I went to all of his graduations. I was there for some of his band performances I was there when he was awarded Eagle Scout. I've been in his life and see him every day.
In spite of all this the kid is an Eagle Scout and has achieved a high degree black belt in tai kwan do. I don't know which one, but he has to travel out of state to be tested for the next level as he's has had to do for the last 3 levels.
So, after talking to the kid for about an hour about revolvers, which I swear was the longest conversation we've ever had to that point, the kid went home. Later, I'm thinking to myself, I ought to give the kid a handgun. I had bought him BB & pellet guns before and he showed good common sense. I had this Sigma 40cal that I hadn't fired since new. I think I bought it when Clinton was elected. So, the next day, I gave him the Sigma. He was dumbstruck and asked all kinds of questions and we set up a date to go to the range.
On the day we went to the range, on the way, I'm quizzing him about range etiquette and I find out he doesn't know a thing about real guns and firing them. Then I was dumbstruck. I said to him "you're and Eagle Scout, didn't you have to get a merit badge in shooting?". He says nope, his troop wasn't set up for training for shooting and he's only fired a 22 rifle once on a BS campout.
So that's the status of Eagle Boy Scouts and the shooting disciplines.
The sad part of the whole thing is that I have a safe full of 22 rifles and I could have set up some training and shooting for his troop. If I had only known.
His troops new scoutmaster is very much into guns and has put a rifle training program into effect. He takes the kids well up into the high power stuff.
The whole situation was quite sobering. The good news is that when he started whining about the cost of 40cal ammo on a college students budget. I bought him a 22 pistol and we've gone to the range at least every two weeks since then. The bad news is that I'm gonna have to get some pro shooting lessons cause he's getting better than me.
