A ray of hope

[scotty18]

I'm a very proud father! My 13 year old daughter just finished her firearm safety course. A few years ago I never thought this would happen. Because of "talk" taught in some of her school classes and other influences, she was definetly anti- hunting/trapping. But my wife and I brought her up right and slowly she has found out on her own that hunting, fishing and trapping are ok. Figuring out boys might be out there helped!
After passing her class, I promised to buy her a bow or shotgun. So last night we went shopping. She tried about 10 different bow.
She didn't like the compounds we looked at and asked me to get her a recurve. So we looked at shotguns. We came home with a 870 youth model. She loves it! Right away she asked to go shoot a round of sporting clay.

I have 2 more girls at home waiting to get old enough to talk the class. I think it's important to get kids out there and get them interested in our sports.

Thanks, Scotty

[Deitz Dittrich]

in my best, that thing got a hemmi dude voice SWEET

ultra congrats... sounds like a lot of fun

[jlm]

Very cool, welcome her to the ranks for me! Good luck with the upcoming season!

[CornPirateKiller]

Great news! Nothing better than having your own child with you in the field. My nine year old daughter has been joining me for several years now. Started out just coming along and after she figured out it was fun to be there, we brought along a BB gun and she plinks cans during the slow time. This year she's sitting beside me in the goose blind with my 20 ga. double. Hasn't connected yet, but she wants to. By the time she's old enough for firearm safety, I hope she's an old pro.

Start em young and teach em right!

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[panolo]

Congrats to her! Now just wait until her shooting is so good that feel like you have to practice to keep up!

[89Bronco]

Way to go scotty18!!!! As a teacher myself I know of all that "talk" that crosses my desk. I try to push for the hunting/fishing sports in my classroom and try to filter out the fact from fiction. I bring in my bear rug and show them pictures from different hunts. I even have a camoflauge bulletin board. It gets the kids going and pretty soon everyone is bringing in this and that for show and tell. In fact, just today I had one girl bring in a set of antlers for "S & T." I think that your daughter is heading in the right direction----Congrats!!!

[scotty18]

Thanks guys, last night she asked me to take her duck hunting. Now the last time I went I her her along. That was 5 years ago. WOW!

Scotty

[bigbucks]

That's great, I'm hoping I've got a couple of future hunters here in this pic we took yesterday morning before work & school.

[bigbucks]

Sorry, I forgot to enlarge it before putting it up. Rookie picture displaying mistake.

This really is pretty easy once you understand it.

[panolo]

Nice deer!

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