Thread: How Could This Happen ?

well we have taken great pains with my boy , and daughter for that matter , to drill into them when it is safe, identify target beyond doubt etc . When we were at one of our local huts around a month ago the lad beat us to the hut and came barreling back down the track , "there's 2 deer right next to the hut!' did you shoot at them "no" why not "cause they are right next to the hut and don't know if it's safe" good lad
Kinda sucked because we ended up walking out empty handed and he was gutted because he so want's to drop his first deer , but still had enough restraint to think before he acted .
So if the younger one's are trained properly there is hope and as much as I hate to say it knowing the costs would be added to our license , it is probably not a silly idea to actually have some kind of training at least in the practical side of firearms handling...say at an indoor 22 range maybe.

oh and as an aside there was one guy in my famdamlies course who wanted a license simply because his dad had died and he wanted to keep his old man's firearms in the family , apparently had no desire to actually use them.