Great thread. I have a 3yo and a 5yo (boys). People that know me as a gun enthusiast are often surprised by the fact that I don't allow them to play with toy guns. I just don't want them seeing guns as toys you can point at people. As they go to school, and play over other children's houses, I'm can see losing control of this - but I'm still trying to teach them early not to treat any gun as a toy.
My intention is to start the 5yo on a 10/22 in the next year or so. I had never even considered the 3yo yet! Good stuff. I have to overcome some of my wife's trepidation. She's not entirely on board yet (and has not real interest, more's the pity).
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Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. -- Ernest Hemingway
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