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From: roa@davinci.acc.virginia.edu ("Robert O. Anderson Jr")
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Learning to shoot
Message-ID: <1991May3.064106.1841@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 11:41:05 GMT
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      I received my first gun for Christmas, I was six years old. It
was a Remington Model 552 (22 semiauto). My dad always preached the
bennies of the first shot, but being a kid, I liked the Rambo
effect. We always started out with the same number of shells...
He came home with squirrels and shells.....I came home empty handed.
      I sold that gun to a fellow for $45 (needed money for school)
12 years later. The year I got married (5 years after I sold it), I
bought it back from the same man.....for $65. Needless to say, I still
have it.
      My teenage years were exciting.....I'd blast away at deer, but
I always heard only one shot from the direction of the old man. I can
hear the old man now, "Boy, when are you going to learn to look down
the gun barrel?"
      It took me awhile to learn the importance of the first shot...
..while hunting.....and the rewards are much greater.


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