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\"Kickin'<\/a>

Kickin’ back on the porch–the perfect opportunity for training.<\/p><\/div>\n

I had a great weekend recently, spending some quality down-time with some of my much younger cousins.<\/p>\n

First off, the Mossberg 715T 22LR<\/a> is harder to take apart than any machine gun in the inventory. I spent the better part of 4 hours taking two apart to show them how to clean the guns.\u00a0 Imagine a gun built by the nemesis of Mikhail Kalashnikov. These things require special tools, Chinese algebra, google, and voodoo to re-assemble. I was about 10 minutes short of looking for a virgin to sacrifice–no easy feat where we were. Farm girls get bored young.<\/p>\n

After that madness we retired to the back yard so I could open the cooler for some refreshing GB approved electrolyte replenishment, and the boys started showing me their airsoft arsenal. A shovel happened to be sticking in the dirt about 10 yards away, so naturally I test fired each one at the handle. Eventually a Daisy Red Ryder Model 1938<\/a> was produced, and I made a comment about the Jeff Cooper cigarette at 10 challenge.<\/p>\n

\"Could<\/a>

Could you shoot a match stick in half with a $39 BB gun?<\/p><\/div>\n

Not wanting to waste a perfectly good cancer stick, a match at 10 was agreed on as an acceptable target. I shot a few rounds and retired. I would have told you the target was outside the capability of a Red Ryder.<\/p>\n

To keep things interesting, the boys’ dad put a bounty on the matches. $5 per hit, $10 for a lit match.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, about an hour into into, we had our first hit. And the boys only got the one hit, as it was soon too dark to shoot. I would have chalked that up to law of averages, but the next day the challenge resumed. Inside 30 minutes they had another hit. 10 minutes later, another. Then another.<\/p>\n

Given proper motivation and proof that it was possible, my lil bastard ( TM pending) cousins had made this an art. By the time the sun set, they were into their dad for a collective $80. This is not an easy shot, and a motley crew of 10-14 year olds had made it happen again and again. I was duly impressed, and it just goes to show. There is never an excuse not to train.<\/p>\n

If kids can shoot matches at 10 yards with a BB gun, we can all find a cheap way to get our training in. [one_half]<\/p>\n

\"Put<\/a>

Give them something interesting to do and\u00a0 kids show off attention spans that make pharmaceutical companies very nervous.<\/p><\/div>\n

[\/one_half][one_half_last]<\/p>\n

\"Teaching<\/a>

Teaching kids to shoot doesn’t have to include shock-and-awe, and a Red Ryder is a better teaching tool than an XBox.<\/p><\/div>\n

[\/one_half_last]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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