We used to have weekend shoots at a cabin back in the woods and all the guys would bring their kids. We had some very small young men shooting Renegades, Hawkins, Kentucky long rifles, Bobcats, and a Cabela's Hawkins. All we did was load them down with a patched ball and let the kids use a shooting stick or the rail of the porch and they were blasting away all afternoon.

Actually those were good times. We taught them gun safety and were encouraged by all the parents that if we caught their child doing anything even remotely dangerous to reprimand them in a stern manner. Also we taught them how to shoot, how to load, how to solve problems, funny thing is most of them kids still hunt with traditional rifles today.

Then we had a big cook out.. those were the good days.