ColinthePilot
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This isn't a scheduled event, but something I got thinking about tonight.
Next time my folks come to visit, I really want to go shooting with my dad. He was (is?) a Marine, and an Expert Marksman by their standard. But that was 30+ years ago. He has never owned guns, and has only shot a handful of times since then. He qualified in the Marines on the M-14. I've only shot with him once, 6 years ago when I inherited my grandparents' guns (mom's side) and we went and put some lead downrange with one of the new acquisitions.
My dad still knows about gun safety. Even when I was growing up, with no real guns in the house, I was taught not to point my toy guns at anything I wasn't willing to destroy, not to pull a gun if I wasn't willing to use it to kill, and to always check the chamber when I picked up a gun(I must've looked like a pro checking the chamber on my toy rifle at 5yo).
So how should I treat this? Do I treat dad like a new shooter with a .22? Do I let him decide what we shoot? Do I need to have the sit-down safety briefing? Anyone taken a prodigal shooter out after this much time off the trigger?
Next time my folks come to visit, I really want to go shooting with my dad. He was (is?) a Marine, and an Expert Marksman by their standard. But that was 30+ years ago. He has never owned guns, and has only shot a handful of times since then. He qualified in the Marines on the M-14. I've only shot with him once, 6 years ago when I inherited my grandparents' guns (mom's side) and we went and put some lead downrange with one of the new acquisitions.
My dad still knows about gun safety. Even when I was growing up, with no real guns in the house, I was taught not to point my toy guns at anything I wasn't willing to destroy, not to pull a gun if I wasn't willing to use it to kill, and to always check the chamber when I picked up a gun(I must've looked like a pro checking the chamber on my toy rifle at 5yo).
So how should I treat this? Do I treat dad like a new shooter with a .22? Do I let him decide what we shoot? Do I need to have the sit-down safety briefing? Anyone taken a prodigal shooter out after this much time off the trigger?