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Looks like I'm going to be the disenting opinion, again.
All the kids in our family started out with a really good quality air rifle.
It was, at first, used only under strict supervision, then as we got older, we were allowed semi-supervised target practice (in view at a distance).
Only when we reached the age where we could actually go hunting did we move up to a .22 rifle.
Years later I asked my dad about the logic. His answer was, as usual, faultless parent-thinking logic.
Like with anything else, he figured us kids would be bored or want to move up to the next thing up in short order, if he gave us a .22 in the first place there really wasn't anything safe to move us up into till we were bigger. By starting us with an air rifle a .22 was a natural safe step up. Besides, by starting with an air gun we had the opportunity to shoot indoors during the winter months.
I still have that air rifle, and it still drops squirrells from 30 or 40 yards out.
Best of luck.
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Our family went by the 'teach them young and teach them wisely' theory, children who learn early never forget.
Firearm use and care, alcohol consumption and social behaviour, amongst other things, were clearly defined at an early age, and there was NO misunderstanding what was acceptable or not.
As we got older there was NO 'forbidden fruit', we had been there and done that, it was no big mystery or thrill.
There was never a temptation to experiment with the boundary between right & wrong either. The law held no fear for me greater than that of what would happen at home if caught.
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I think you completely missed my point there KC.
It WAS NOT 'sink or swim'......
It was TEACH YOUR KIDS HOW TO SWIM.
"And most kids learn the hard way anyways, so why waste effort.."
Phew, all I can say is you're kidding right?
As a kid I was a liable to get a swat from ANY adult who saw me misbehave as from my own parents.
I am thankful I grew up in a community like that.
Today if a kid went home and said someone had hit the parents are likely going to call the police, lawyer, and anybody else they think of.
In my case if I had gone home and told my parents I got a swat for misbehaving I would have gotten whalloped again, and good, for it.
I new it, and I didn't risk it.
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Unfortunately, as the movie "Jackass" has proved, you can no longer make flip remarks and not expect a percentage of the population won't take it as gospel or good advice.
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