Seems like a red dot sight would be the way to go. No sights to
align....just put the red dot on the target. Unlike a laser sight,
however, he would have to position the rifle just like he would if he
was using iron sights. You could teach him trigger control and how to
hold a point of aim, then eventually graduate to conventional sights
and/or scopes.

I like Millett red dots. They're of good quality, and they don't break
the bank.

Regards,

Brandon

Roger Metzger wrote On 04/16/07 20:06,:

> 07Apr16e guntotingliberals
> My mother's father was the only one of our
> grandparents who owned guns. He was an Iowa farmer
> and a hunter--mostly deer and game birds.
> Both of our grandmothers and both of our parents were
> vegetarians, but my grandfather taught my mother to
> shoot targets with his rifles and "clay pigeons" with
> a shotgun. She never went hunting with him.
> My siblings and I didn't have toy guns or BB guns
> growing up. We weren't allowed to play with other
> children's toy guns, but occasionally were allowed to
> shoot other children's BB guns.
> When my grandfather died, my mother inherited his guns
> and soon thereafter taught me how to use the rifles
> for target practice.
> My wife, Sally, and I never bought our children toy
> guns or BB guns and they knew that I didn't want them
> to buy toy guns with their own money, so they never
> did.
> After our children were grown and had children of
> their own, Sally and I started acquiring a few guns
> and practicing with them. I am more interested in
> airguns than firearms, but like to practice with both.
> When someone bought our grandson, Anthony, a toy gun,
> I used it to teach him things like always treating it
> as a real gun, keeping it always pointed in a "safe"
> direction, indexing, etc.
> I never thought I'd let anyone under 16 years of age
> shoot a "real" gun of mine (which, to my way of
> thinking, includes my airguns), but our daughter,
> unaware of our plans, took an extra shift of work on a
> day that Sally had decided she wanted to go shooting.
> I decided that if Anthony was going to watch us shoot,
> he should be allowed to shoot something more than his
> toy Kentucky rifle.
> I have a Grizzly that I use for pellets only. That
> morning, when I picked up some ammo for one of Sally's
> guns, I also bought a pair of shooting glasses for
> 5-year-old Anthony. I decided that if he could hit an
> 8-inch circle consistently from 25 feet with my
> "pellet gun", I'd reward him by also letting him shoot
> a repeater. In Utah there are many places where that
> can be done safely, even by a shooter who, as it turns
> out, and even with every kind of instruction Sally and
> I could think of, tried a couple of dozen shots from
> 17 feet without hitting a 12-foot square pizza box.
> Every time I loaded the gun and handed it to Anthony,
> it was with the safety on. I only had to tell him
> once how to take the safety off before shooting, and
> only had to remind him maybe twice in a couple of
> dozen times. But while he positions his head exactly
> as if he were sighting the gun, he is obviously only
> mimicking what he has seen other shooters do.
> I have a number of books and articles about learning
> to shoot. The most common way of teaching someone how
> to use the sights seems to be the "lollypop on a
> stick" explanation. Frankly, that doesn't make a lot
> of sense to me, but we tried a number of different
> ways of explaining the concept, to no avail.
> If Davy Crockett "killed him a bar when he was only
> three, I have to assume someone explained how to line
> up the sights with the target. But how?
> I have an old laser sight that might work if I buy
> batteries. It was never more accurate than about a
> half-inch from 25 feet.
> I'd be interested in anyone's advice as to whether
> using the laser would be more of a hindrance than a
> help at this point. I don't want Anthony to rely on
> it to the point (pardon the pun) of not learning to
> use regular iron sights.
> I'd also be interested in any other advice you can
> give me.
> Now that I've decided to let him shoot, I REALLY want
> to teach him how to do it right.
> Roger Metzger
>
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