Great times together. He will remember the experience for the rest of his life.

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Thanks for sharing this. Along life's path, it's the memories like this that stay with us. Spend all the time you can with them while they are young. We get to treasure them while we're here, they will get to treasure them even longer.

I always enjoy good stories that start off 'My father taught me how to...", or, my Grandfather taught me".

I really can't recall anyone I knew that turned out bad who had stories like this to tell about their Grandfather or fathers.

Murphy

I have three now and the oldest is 6. He's right at that age. I made the mistake of starting his dad out on a Ruger 10/22 I bought him for Christmas. I figured out real quick that you have to load the magazine one round at a time until they learn the discipline of careful shot placement!!! It was "Shoot one round carefully pulling the trigger and watching your sig....BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM....Ok, this loading the magazine thing ain't gonna work!!!" After that it was loaded singly until he got the point.

I can't believe I forgot to mention this and I know all of you have experienced the same thing.

Early on, when I started taking the little guy out on the back porch and he had touched off a few rounds he commented:

"Papaw... I like that smell."

I haven't thought of it in over 60 years but that was the first thing I noticed when I was a kid around my father and older brother shooting guns...

the smell of burned powder.

He's bit.

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My twin grandgirls will start with their own Chipmunk rifles next year, when they're 6. I'm looking forward to it. Good on you for taking charge of his training.

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