Well, the title kinda says it all… 
Took a few toys to the range at the request of a friend. He was bringing his kids and wanted them to have a chance to try different things… His kids were 18 (F), 17 (M), 12 (F). As it turns out, his Dad also came along, so I got to see three generations of the same family all having fun at the range. We shot about 2000 rounds total through these and a Ruger Mk II .22 and an old Colt Trooper .357 (his Dads).
All of us had a ball!!! Us old farts teaching the kids (with three adults it was one on one), the kids all trying the different pistols and later the rifle, and seeing their pride when they improved and were getting all the shots on target and some bulls at 10 yards.
One thing that was funny… the 17 yr old boy thought he was a good shot since he played the video games a lot, so we had a little steel plate challenge. The range had a 5 plate set up that you reset with a rope, so I challenged him to see who could knock the five plates down in the quickest time, with only 6 rounds. After he lost about 8 in a row, he finally admitted real life was a little harder than video games (and he never did get all five plates down).
Well, today was Father’s Day, so I hope y’all all had a good one. My Father has been gone a number of years, so I don’t do much, but it was nice to get calls from my daughters today… Amazingly enough, they didn’t even ask for money!!!!
One last thing, a bit of a point to ponder as it were…
A mother asked President Bush,
“Why did my son have to die in
Another mother asked President Kennedy,
Why did my son have to die in
Another mother asked President Truman,
“Why did my son have to die in
Another mother asked President F. D. Roosevelt,
“Why did my son have to die at
Another mother asked President W. Wilson,
“Why did my son have to die on the battlefield of
Yet another mother asked President Lincoln,
“Why did my son have to die at
And yet another mother asked President G. Washington,
“Why did my son have to die near
Then long, long ago, a mother asked…
“Heavenly Father, why did my Son have to die
on a cross outside of
The answers to all these are similar —
“So that others may have life and dwell in peace,
happiness and freedom.”