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games and fun was mostly found play- ing football, Cowboys & Indians or army.
In most families both parents work.
Many kids spend many hours a week at daycare. Evenings are cluttered with homework, television, sports and other extra curricular activities. Weekends are filled with soccer, football, baseball and similar pursuits. As parents make an effort to find a moment of sanity or catch up on chores, kids often end up watching episode after episode of Sponge Bob. The vividly exciting and interactive
video gaming opportunities, along with 327 channels, often make it difficult for parents to capture a kid’s imagination with a trip to the shooting range. In this electronic world, we can’t deprive the future generation’s exposure to these things and probably shouldn’t. But, there’s a way to get youngsters interest- ed in the shooting sports. It just takes common sense and dedication.
Having Fun You may be so old you don’t remem-
ber, but kids are all about having fun. They don’t really care how they have it as long as they do. If you don’t believe
hen I was growing up cartoons only came on TV on Saturday morning. There were no video
Everyone in my family was a hunter and guns were a part of our life and my childhood. I killed a lot of small game and a few deer before I ever kissed a girl. Times have indeed changed.
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me, give a kid an appliance box and they’ll play with it for hours. Kids like to share their fun with their parents too. I have four kids. One’s now an adult, the others all pre-teen.
Kids think military-style rifles are cool. The difference is the rifles have changed and are now much more suitable to younger shooters.
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They’ve been exposed to guns their entire lives. The youngest three enjoy shooting or being around guns. The oldest could care less. I’m responsible for both the gun interest in the youngest and the could care less about guns attitude of the oldest. Let me explain. When my oldest was 5, I started taking him to the range with
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