12-06-2015, 07:58 PM
Unfortunately common sense isn't common at all.
While visiting relatives over the holiday, my great nephew saw me coming in one morning from deer hunting. My AR was in a tactical case, and he wanted to know if he could see it. He's only six, so I told him he had to get permission from his mother and father, which I was sure they would give. So at the age of six, he got his first gun safety training class, then we went out into the yard and I let him use a mono-pod and look at some of the cattle in the pasture behind the house through the scope. It took him a few seconds to adjust from trying to use the scope like binoculars, but he finally got the hang of it. Later that night I took him and his dad out and let them look through my thermal scope, a Zeus 3X 75mm. There were 4 does in the pasture west of the house about 500 yds away, but we could easily make them out. I say they were does, I don't think the rack wouldn't give off a heat signature this time of year. One could have been a buck I suppose. He's a very responsible and courteous young man, and even at the age of six was able to answer safety questions when I asked him a half hour after his lesson.
While visiting relatives over the holiday, my great nephew saw me coming in one morning from deer hunting. My AR was in a tactical case, and he wanted to know if he could see it. He's only six, so I told him he had to get permission from his mother and father, which I was sure they would give. So at the age of six, he got his first gun safety training class, then we went out into the yard and I let him use a mono-pod and look at some of the cattle in the pasture behind the house through the scope. It took him a few seconds to adjust from trying to use the scope like binoculars, but he finally got the hang of it. Later that night I took him and his dad out and let them look through my thermal scope, a Zeus 3X 75mm. There were 4 does in the pasture west of the house about 500 yds away, but we could easily make them out. I say they were does, I don't think the rack wouldn't give off a heat signature this time of year. One could have been a buck I suppose. He's a very responsible and courteous young man, and even at the age of six was able to answer safety questions when I asked him a half hour after his lesson.