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From: jholand%peruvian@hellgate.utah.edu (John Holand)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Hunting "Accidents"
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.130721.2029@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 18:07:20 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.083629.7871@doug.cae.wisc.edu> scott@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Larry Scott) writes:
>
>>>same motions of stalking, identifying the target, assessing the shot,
>>>aiming and squeezing the shot off - only all he gets is a *click*.
>>>Meanwhile the instructor can observe all aspects of the process AND be able
>>>to give low key corrective instructions (no ear plugs, remember).  Once
>>>the proper techniques are mastered and after flinching, buck fevor and
>>>other ills are cured, then and only then is live fire allowed.

>you are!  Proper gun handling, (including treating ALL guns as if
>they're loaded), is exactly what the previous reader is professing!
>
>Larry Scott

Well I do agree the he was professing proper gunhandling. The
point I disagree on is his method of teaching this. To claim
you can take a new comer to guns and give him an "unloaded"
gun and allow him to think he can safely make mistakes is wrong.
   This would give the handler the idea that it is ok the treat 
an "unloaded gun" differently than we would treat a loaded gun.  
   This is the point I made and one I stick by. If this is the
method by which you chose to teach your son I guess that is 
your decision. I feel that by allowing kids to think that they
treat a gun as "safe" you are place a seed for an accident to happen.
   The education needs to start long before the child ever picks
up a gun. They need to know that a gun can and will easily kill
you and others, that it is not a toy and should be treated with 
respect at all time.
Respectfully 
John R. Holand