Look at those eyes filled with excitement...
We bred MEN in those days. You couldn't push Marxist propaganda on those boys. Now look at the pansies we turn out of our Progressive mind-control factories now.
Posted on 07/09/2015 9:23:37 AM PDT by BBell
The giddy 13-year-old boys oohed and aahed as they stared down the black shotgun barrels and aimed at clay targets they imagined whizzing through the air.
“You guys are welcome to test any of these out,” said Dusty Minke, a sales agent for Browning, as the teens elbowed each other for spots at his kiosk. “We’ve actually had a couple of kids who did so good on the test range that they were like, ‘Can I use this for my rounds?’ We let ‘em, and their scores went up — and they’ll hopefully go and buy one.”
It was day six of the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League championship, the world’s biggest shooting-sport event. Minke could see potential customers in every direction, kids as young as 11 who’d tumbled out of their parents’ cars in camouflage T-shirts beginning at 7 a.m.
In 2009, the contest’s first year, it drew 30 shooters. In June there were 5,134, more than 20,000 spectators and sponsors including Benelli Armi SpA and SKB Shotguns. Trap shooting is the fastest-growing sport in Minnesota high schools, and was recently introduced in neighboring Wisconsin and North Dakota. While it may make anti-gun activists uneasy, it’s a boon for manufacturers and retailers that have stoked its growth.
(Excerpt) Read more at mnclaytarget.com ...
There is something that stirs in a American when exposed to carefully polished wood, and deeply Blued steel. In this age of Black metal and plastic.
Just the thing to make liberals’ heads explode. Wonderful news.
Yep - 3 of my varsity letters were for Rifle. Really ticked off the AD, but I was grinning ear to ear every time.
Really? Back in 1959 my Brother was in a Gun Club at his High School. We lived on Long Island at the time.
He carried his .22 Bolt Action Rifle to School twice a week.
They had an inside Gun Range. I think it was in the Gymnasium Basement.
Nobody batted and eye when he was walking down the Street toward School carrying his Rifle Case.
Haven’t Holder’s feral ‘Yoots’ already embraced shooting as a hot sport for a very long time, especially when targets are ‘crackas’ or members of other gangs, or those who can’t defend themselves? Guess the ‘skules’ have to catch up to the ghetto yet again!
< /extreme sarc>
Yep, times were different then.
I recall Justice Scalia telling about his youth, and he was in a shooting class. He carried his weapon on the New York subway.
Many things have changed over the decades. Some for the better but some definitely for the worse.
Look at those eyes filled with excitement...
We bred MEN in those days. You couldn't push Marxist propaganda on those boys. Now look at the pansies we turn out of our Progressive mind-control factories now.
Love the sound of liberal heads exploding in the morning.
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