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Never too young to learn gun safety!
Aug 8, 2018 20:45:22   #
teabag09
 
My granddaughter's father is a mix between Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. He and I would take his daughter hunting with us when she about three. Understand this was just an excuse to get her and us in the woods. Her mother (my daughter) would dress her up like the Michelin Man. Dad would lead and I would follow. She always found a stick she could beat the s**t out of bush she walked by while hooting and hollering, didn't recon we were going to see much game. She often tripped over a root or vine, fall flat on her stomach, that's where the Michelin suit came in.

Because of these outings she was interested in hunting with her father and me as the years went on. At 4 I bought her a pink Cricket. A very safe single shot .22 cal. rifle. She was a total dead eye from the git go once sighting was explained. When she was eight I bought her a .243 rifle because she wanted to go "really deer hunting", again nothing but black at 100 yds. which I can no longer do every time. We belong to a hunt club that hunts all of the seasons so last year at age 11 I gave her my crossbow which fires a bolt at about 400 feet per second. Again, black at 20yd,30yd,40yd and 50yd. (Black means a 1" bulls eye). She also owns an AR-15, 5.56 that I gave her which she is extremely proficient with and enjoys shooting.

I've bought a 28 gauge over under which she'll learn to shoot this fall when dove season comes in.

I write this screed as to where I stand on the article I'm posting below. Mike

Jamie Lynn Spears is being picked on after a photo of her tween daughter holding a shotgun was posted to Instagram.

The 27-year-old sister of Britney Spears and mother to Maddie Briann Aldridge, 10, and Ivey Joan Watson, 4 months, was deluged with critical comments after husband Jamie Watson shared the photo of his stepdaughter, captioning it, “Getting her ready for dove season.”




While many of the critiques have seemingly been f**gged and removed from the post, people reportedly wrote, “A 10-year-old with a shotgun. If that’s not redneck I don’t know what is,” “You’re so irresponsible. Guns are not a toy,” and “Put down the gun, pick up a pair of binoculars & take a hike together. For me, teaching kids to k**l when there is absolutely no need seems very, very wrong.”

Jamie Lynn’s admirers came out swinging: “Welcome to the South people. If you don’t like it, head out!” Some commented that hunting is a milestone: “Learning to hunt and to be able to provide food for your family is an awesome sk**l to have!!! Ignore all these h**ers and trolls!”

And a few offered context. “Seriously? People have been learning to hunt since the dawn of time. Men and woman. You guys are still eating meat, no? Same thing” and “There are celebrity children out here with cars, getting their nails done everyday and hair, and buying ripped up jeans for $5,000 and y’all are b***hing about her hunting dove?? And using proper gun safety?!”






Jamie Lynn Spears, pictured with mom Lynne Spears and daughter Maddie Briann Aldridge, is catching heat for a photo of the girl holding a gun. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Jamie Lynn and Britney grew up in Kentwood, Louisiana where hunting wildlife is a popular activity and children who wish to hunt doves can receive their license at only age 16.

Last February, Maddie was in an ATV accident that left her critically injured. While riding a Polaris all-terrain vehicle in Tangipahoa Parish, it flipped over, throwing her into a pond and submerging her under water for several minutes. She became unconscious and was airlifted to a hospital, where she was treated for five days.

Later that year, Jamie Lynn reflected on nearly losing her daughter. “The hardest milestone me and my family have ever faced was almost losing our beautiful Maddie, but thanks to God and the two angels in this picture we were able to celebrate Maddie turning 9 years old all together,” she wrote on Instagram. “This milestone became a true miracle, and we are forever grateful for that.”

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Aug 9, 2018 10:38:22   #
Mike Easterday
 
Gun safety used to be taught in public grade school.

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Aug 9, 2018 18:52:59   #
greenmountaineer Loc: Vermont
 
Wow! Jane and I started our four kids on safety and marksmanship at 6. I had found that if I put the butt of a rifle that fitted well, into the crook of my arm, the trigger came to the second joint of my trigger finger, so I measured the kids, and made a stock fo my old Remington model 510 and started them with that. Jane had held an NRA expert badge since she was 16. I had almost had a gun acciddent through ignornace at age 12. so i don't know what would be "too young."

However, there is a strong movement to keep kids as ignorant as possible about firearms. I think it is part of a political agenda. Anyway, I congratulate you on getting this young lady properly educated so early.

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