THE FOUR RULES

1. ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED.

2. NEVER POINT YOUR MUZZLE AT SOMETHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY.

3. KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET AND YOU ARE READY TO SHOOT.

4. KNOW YOUR TARGET AND WHAT'S BEYOND.

Winston Churchill said
"A GENTLEMAN, SELDOM, IF EVER, NEEDS A GUN.
BUT WHEN HE DOES, HE NEEDS IT VERY BADLY!"
Si Vis Paceum Para Bellum

Sam Adams, more than beer

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen”
Samuel Adams

Lincoln on power

"We must prevent these things being done, by either congresses or courts — The people — the people — are the rightful masters of both Congresses, and courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it —" Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Fishing with the boys

Two of our grandsons love to fish. I took them out to the lake yesterday. It was nice and calm when we left the house at 8:00 AM. by the time we stopped to get worms and ice the wind was starting to pick up. By the time we finally got to the lake it was blowing like nobody's business.



getting ready.



Brock the fisherman.


Bryce.

I decided I wasn't even going to try in that wind. The boys weren't being deterred. The killed a couple worms and then decided maybe lures would be better. After about a hour they decided maybe it was too windy. We packed up and went over to the range to do a little shooting. I had a customers 1911 to test fire.

I have a old Glenfield model 60 that I built from spare parts. It's a nice little rife and it's just the right size to start the boys on. I have been drilling the 4 rules into them and they can recite them back pretty good. I give them a lot of lectures on safety and marksmanship.

Bryce is the oldest and is becoming a pretty good shot. At 50 yards he managed to get 10 out of 11 on the target.



A little more practice and he might be ready to go squirrel hunting. Brock needs to grow a little, he still can't get his shoulder where it needs to be and still reach the trigger. Starting them young is a good way to instill the message of safety. The first lesson they learned was "Do Not Touch". From there we moved up to learning the rules and from there the basics of marksmanship.

We went back out last night for a little cat-fishing. It was ungodly hot and not even a breeze. We stayed out until Bradley decided he wanted to go. He usually doesn't show much interest in fishing. Last night was a treat to have all three of them out at the lake. We still didn't catch anything, but we had fun. In the end, that's all that counts.

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