Da "K" Spot: No Brass, No Ammo

We managed to get a week of fun in with my nephew before he headed home and decided to make it both exciting and educational; I am an educator after all. And since they have been having such fun with these realistic looking pellet guns, that I didn't purchase but they got "from a friend", dang teenagers - my goodness! Anyway, we figured we'd take them (Davaughn and Garrett) to the gun range for a real lesson on gun safety and usage. Hopefully being exposed to actual firearms by us initially will take some of the curiosity out of it while educating them to the dangers as well as the safe operation of weapons. It's my belief that if I fail to educate properly, someone else will improperly.

Darryl was a wonderful instructor and the boys really enjoyed both the verbal and physical aspects of the gun safety class he put them through, it was quite rigorious. I must admit I needed a refresher myself and its been only a few years since I'd been to the range. They were attentive and yet apprehensive but asked lots of questions and paid was so engaged that I was shocked when he didn't have to speak to either of them twice! I guess they either recognized the seriousness or really just wanted to shoot a gun!

Well, they met his requirements and were able to fire multiple times at multiple targets using a (XD 40) which was so powerful that Darryl had to stand behind them to ensure they didn't loose balance...lol! He had to do it for me also! That gun is pretty powerful, i'll stick with my .38. None of us could hit the targets that made a ringing sound besides Darryl because of lack of control, I was able to hit the mannequin but the boys were unable to do that either.

I joked with them that a real gun is a lot different from a PSP controller with a scope and they both agreed. We wanted to take them back to record their range "expertise" but coordinating both our schedules, time didn't permit. We can only hope that this experience made the lore of guns less mysterious and appealing for them both and more practical and realistic...later in life, much later...if they choose to become firearm owners...LEGALLY.