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ExMarlboroMan wrote:

TLE2 wrote:I've been teaching the "simple" rules to my 4 year old grandson, in anticipation of his first trip to the range sometime next summer.

He's still learning...

What if anything are you using to teach the rule's "with" ?
I have a 4 year old and am wondering, how to go about it.

Shame on me for not responding sooner.

My "dummy gun" is a water pistol
For rifle work I use an M1 carbine stock and a Red Ryder that I gutted gas piston out of and then filled the end of the barrel with a wood dowel.

Here are my simple easy to remember rules that I teach and how i teach them.

1 - it is loaded even if its in pieces
---> take a 1911 apart with a snap cap in it - scares the crud out of them when the cap falls on the table

2 - do not point it at anything you do not want to kill
---> I then shoot a watermelon with the 1911 hallow point at 10 foot

3 - there is no such thing as a firearm accident
---> If you discharge it when you didn't mean to then YOU screwed up plain and simple

4 - be aware of all things behind your target
---> Looking down range through sights what color is the pie plate behind and to the right of the target?
---> Hint - its cammo

5 - Your safety is broken, don't trust it.
---> I give a left handed safety shotgun to a right handed shooter
---> 50% turn the safety off thinking they are turning it on

5 - Finger off trigger
---> they hate this one, I have a thumb tack glued to the trigger on the dummy gun
---> many a student asks for a band-aid or says ouch the bad ones do it multiple times