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My son showed an interest in guns for the first time last week. We've started working on the question 'What do you do if you find a gun?' He doesn't quite grasp what an 'adult' is, so for now, the answer is 'go find mommy or daddy.'
I'll be starting on the four rules soon, but he's not allowed to touch guns, even with supervision yet (two still seems a bit young).
However, his enthusiasm is catching. He found me yesterday disassembling my 1911 and proudly proclaimed 'I love guns!', so I decided I'd let him watch and explain what each piece was.
Then he started naming them.
The video is of the second time he's seen a 1911 disassembled.
What have I created?
We had a rocking day out, just the guys, touring guy spots.
We saw an airplane museum, the Smoky Mountain Knife Works store, where I bought a few ammo cans at a steal of a price, a Muscle Car Museum, and the Highlight of the trip for my son, the Helicopter ride.
My brother flew with Elyas and 2 other nephews, and as soon as Elyas touched down, he looked at me and said
'wanna fly the helicopter some more!'
We just finished up a great meal of burgers and hotdogs, and now it's time for a Sam Adams.
Prosit!
With the brothers.
Good times.
We're eating dinner out as a family. First cousins and closer relations only. We're missing about 10 people.
Quite the bunch, huh?
When I met up with my dad on saturday, he had a birthday present for me. 26.2 pounds of bullets, and a new handgun.
The bullets are:
About 20 rounds of my .308's favorite load, and 5 rounds of a new load he's developing.
About 400 rounds of .38 special, both target and defense.
About 250 rounds of .45 for my new handgun, both target and defense.
A midway catalog.
And my new handgun, a springfield GI .45. I took it to the range today, and the first magazine, it all went in the 10 ring, without me really having to try. I love it. It's a beautiful, classic shooter, and it's my first 1911.
Pure awesome.
I haven't been shooting with my dad and brothers since last Thanksgiving. We had an opportunity to go to one, and we slipped off.
I gave one brother the Titan .25, and the other brother brought his 9mm Ruger.
There was also a mystery gun that I got as a birthday present, but it'll have it's own post later.
At any rate, we had a ball.
We went to the Aquarium today. The boy had a great time. We saw all kind of swimmy creatures, including a sharks and that beastie in the picture.... No, not that picture! That's Paw Paw! The other beastie! Yeah, that one.
Fun stuff!
We took a cable tram over gatlinburg, the wife did some ice skating, and me and my brother and his wife made a bunch of dang meat pies for dinner.
It was busy.
It was fun.
It was just one day.
Today's gonna be another busy one.
On the way to meet the family in Tennessee, we stopped to look at some flowers.
Nice view.
A shot of the boy in a 57 chevy couch. Oh, how classy!
