Posted on 07/13/2015 5:33:53 AM PDT by george76
These kids are going to be future legislators, and they’re going to get in there and know the truth about weapons.
When I was in high school, back in the Stone Age, many if not most American high schools, both public and private, had shooting teams. Then the wilting violets and pansies took over and set about effecting Fundamental Emasculation of American society. But now, gradually, shooting sports are coming back:
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Competitive musketry dates to 16th century England and has been an Olympic sport since 1896. Today trap, a cousin of skeet and sporting clays, is as popular with Minnesota’s urban boys and girls as it is with their counterparts in rural areas, where hunting’s in the DNA. “It’s just cool, because I get to use a gun,” said Stephanie Petsilis, 17, who shoots for Wayzata High School outside Minneapolis with a $1,430 Browning BT-99 Micro.
Zac Olson, 15, used a SKB Century III 12-gauge as a member of the Lakeville South High School team, which he joined after an injury ended a budding gymnastics career. “All you need to do is practice,” he said, wearing the team’s black-and-khaki vest. “You don’t have to be super fast or super strong.” His mother, Courtney Olson, went from being repulsed at the thought of guns in their house near Minneapolis to buying Zac the $1,400 shotgun and a $600 Glock 17 to nurture his newfound interest in becoming a police officer. “To see your kid this happy is incredible,” she said.
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Kids are INVARIABLY HAPPY at the range. All they ask is some more ammunition.
Wake me when they get back to .22 rifle—more fun AND lots CHEAPER.
Pansies and wilting violets lol
My HS had a shooting range in the basement. I think the rifle team was under the auspices of the Jr. ROTC. The program is still going, although I don’t know where the kids practice, since most of the old school has been torn down TWICE.
Bullseye. Bullseye. Bullseye. Bullseye. Bullseye. Bullseye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbpojm3iWUg
Just about everybody is happy at the range. For the same reason people are happy riding roller coasters - it's a lot of fun.
From what I have read in pre revolution America the men were required to shoot the smooth bores after church on the village green. They were the militia and it was a requirement few cared to discharge as the things fired a .69 cal. one ounce lead ball. Think .475 rhino gun. Long guns that “kill on both ends”.
I have often asked how different this country would be if firearms ranges were as plentiful as golf courses and golf courses were as hard to find as ranges.
The JROTC teams here in Albuquerque use precision air rifles on the international 10 meter targets.
I shot in the school basement in the 70’s with .22’s on the 50 smallbore targets. It was poorly ventilated and I probably breathed enough lead dust to knock 200 points off my SAT score.
For teaching marksmanship and competing the air rifles are a better option IMO. You can use a standard room with portable pellet traps, no ventilation problems, no need for hearing protection, and a lot less hassle.
If anything they’re more accurate than the old Remington Matchmaster 513T’s we had that had seen who knows what over the years.
Both Mrs BN & I were on the rifle teams of our respective high schools. Hers was in Rhode Island, mine at a school with JROTC in Georgia. I did not learn that she'd been on a rifle team until some time after we were married.
My high school training really helped at the range at Parris Island. I had a 241 on Pre-Qual day, then on Qual Day it snowed (yeah, I know. South Carolina, whoda thunk!) After blowing snowflakes the size of quarters off the rear sight, I only managed a 213.
"Pride goeth before a fall"!
I shoot the .495 round ball with compressed air.
...Kids are INVARIABLY HAPPY at the range...
Even fringe lunatic liberal anti gun rights Piers Morgan
“Grinned like a possum” as he turned to the camera as he was being videoed putting down an automatic rifle after firing it at the range. I think he wanted one.
(...a lifetime ago,) We had shooting range practice ar the local national guard armory every Thursday after school. It was not all about marksmanship, but also about safety and how to care for weapons. Some things I learned in grade school that I still use 60 year later.
Even a bad day at the range beats a good day just about anywhere else.
And your still smarter than a libtard.
your = you’re (haven’t caffeinated myself yet).
Range fumes got you too? ;)
Years ago one of my pastors told me that he used to bring his hunting rifle to school in the morning and put it in his locker in the football locker room. No door on the locker by the way. I think that must have been in the 1950s.
He needed it to go hunting when school let out.
Nobody blinked or said a word. I drive by his old high school now and it is on constant lockdown. Looks like most of the students are spawns of 0bama.
Never been to a range in my life. I wouldn't know one end of a firearm from the other.
Okay, the NSA has moved on. No, I pretty much killed mine with exhaust fumes. The few cells that weren't destroyed by Ethyl running through my 327 were finished off at the range...
And by beer and wood smoke.
The flip side to this is the elimination of “zero tolerance” rules in schools, and setting strict limits on when they can abrogate their disciplinary authority to the police. This also means liability reform so that school administrators do not have to tremble in fear before they discipline.
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