Thread: city kids and shooting

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

One of my staff has her young nephew down here from Whangarei at the moment trying to keep him away from the gangs. He's just gone 17 and is probably a good kid under his hard exterior. We are going to give him a bit of work experience and I'll help him get a job if he can prove to me he'll keep his nose clean.
Plan on getting him into some hunting and he's pretty keen although first day out the other day having a go on the gongs he was more interested in getting some "gangsta" selfies whilst holding my 243. I think he's realised now that a Forbes is about the least gangsta piece of hardware out there and he's beginning to focus. Pretty keen to see him make something of himself and I think hunting and hard work will help endlessly with that.

Good luck, I hope it straightens him out.
Decades ago the shepherd on the family farm used to get sent his rellies from South Auckland who were causing trouble. One of them didn't work out so well. He was a 14 year old, had never seen a live sheep or cow before as he had never been out of the city in his 14 years. He ran away, broke into our house while we were on holiday, and loaded Mum's car with blankets, alcohol and guns. He crashed the car into the picnic table. The shepherd caught him and handed him over to the police. Apparently he escaped, stole a police car and crashed that too.
On the other hand, there were several nephews etc who got themselves on the right track, and regularly came back to the farm to visit, go hunting and fishing, and put down a hangi.