Spent the day at the range.

[ta2guy73]

Weather was great today, so I took my 17 year old son to the range today. Had a great father & son day. I let him shoot my Firestorm 1911 for the first time today. He did really well, after getting used to the recoil. I was a very proud dad today.

 

[MilShooter]

Weather was great today, so I took my 17 year old son to the range today. Had a great father & son day. I let him shoot my Firestorm 1911 for the first time today. He did really well, after getting used to the recoil. I was a very proud dad today.

What a great story! Although I like your short-and-concise style, I am incapable of such compact writing. Instead, I tend to pontificate. (That's my personal introduction of me to you.)

I remember taking my son to the range for the first time. You're absolutely right; it was a great day for both of us. Because he had never used a handgun, I started him with a Ruger Mark II in .22 caliber. After learning the basics of safety, grip, breathing, front sight focus and trigger control, he asked to shoot my Colt Gold Cup National Match pistol in .45 ACP.

After he went through about 10 magazines, he was really grinning. He much preferred shooting the Colt even though it had much more recoil and has a reputation of being "hard to shoot". To my surprise, he was more accurate with the Colt, defying common "knowledge". I am a Colt and .45 caliber bigot even though I shot IPSC style and steel target matches with a .38 Super (also a Colt) race run.

Congratulations on a successful outing with your son. I sincerely hope that your son gained some respect for firearms as a result of the range visit and begins to think for himself about the responsibility of gun use and ownership. Let's all hope that he becomes a vocal proponent of firearms ownership and use.

By the way, welcome to the forums. I love to see new folks on here with stories such as yours.

 

[Tucker's Mom]

Good on you! Father/son/daughter/mother relationship is good especially on the range. Things you never thought about talking to your child expand a little bit more with gun safety and handling topics. No tv, nothing but one on one. I hope you went to Top Gun at Arnold. It is a great range...my favourite indoor range to go.

 

[towboater]

My father is visiting from Missouri, he and I also went to the range. Good times. I enjoy those trips a lot.

 

[ta2guy73]

I am a few hours away from Arnold, I wish we had an indoor range close to us. The closest range to me is a MO Conservation Dept range. It's just a little unmanned outdoors range, but we enjoy it.

I have taught him firearms safety since he was old enough to listen and understand. He has three long guns of his own, a Ruger 10/22, a Winchester model 94, and for his birthday last month I gave him a H&R 12 gauge. If the weather stays good, might have to take him to shoot some clay pigeon this weekend.

 

[towboater]

Sounds like your a great dad.

 

[AMLKing]

Did the same this last weekend. My oldest son is also 17, and we went to the range and emptied a few magazines. A coworker also went, so my son was able to try not only my XD .40, but also a 9mm, a S&W .40 and a .22. Great time. Just can't wait until summer time when we can take my 11yr old for his into to his 2nd Amendment right!

 

[Tucker's Mom]

Sounds like your a great dad.

I agree....totally agree he sounds like a great dad.