My 10yr old and a pellet gun

[yetti462]

Last night I was unloading a load of wood in my shed when I saw my, Minnie me, crossing the back yard with his pellet gun.
"Hey buddy, what are you shooting?"

"Hey Dad, been shooting tomatoes."

Puzzled I ask, "what tomatoes?"

""Ones in the garden."
Reminds me of the time I weeded Mom's garden and beat her rhubarb patch down with a stick.

What goes around comes around.

 

[dlandersson]

Last night I was unloading a load of wood in my shed when I saw my, Minnie me, crossing the back yard with his pellet gun.
"Hey buddy, what are you shooting?"

"Hey Dad, been shooting tomatoes."

Puzzled I ask, "what tomatoes?"

""Ones in the garden."
Reminds me of the time I weeded Mom's garden and beat her rhubarb patch down with a stick.

What goes around comes around.

lol

 

[d.kaufman]

I'd get in quite a bit of trouble as a kid when me and my friends would play tomato baseball

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

This wasn’t him, was it?

 

[Frosty]

Dad always told me I could shoot all the sparrows I wanted… my bird identification skills in the 8-10 year old range were less than spectacular… I’ll never forget the time I tried to shoot one off the bird house from about 40’ away, missed the bird, hit the twine that was strung up to hold the bird house. I got a good whooping out of that one

 

[PappyD]

Years ago my youngest had just turned 12 and asked if he could "shoot cans with the pellet gun down by the firepit". He had been a quick and safe learner so I said "sure". His mother added, "but be careful!" As he walked out the door he asked, "Um, if a I see a squirrel or rabbit can I shoot it?" Both were in season so I said, "Sure"....

Maybe 10 minutes later he taps on the window and holds up a clearly dead rabbit.

Of course, I walked him through cleaning it and cutting up the pieces. Add in some potatoes, onions and an iron skillet and we had some fried rabbit that night.

He loves to tell the story - "You and Mom were so surprised!!"

 

[rem788]

Dad had just had a brand new pole barn built. I was looking through the walk in door on one end and saw a pigeon sitting along the wall on the other end of the barn. I shot it with my .22. The bird fell over and there was a perfect .22 hole in the barn siding where he had been sitting. I never said anything, don't know if Dad ever saw it.

 

[Hoosierdood]

I got a wrist rocket sling shot when I was 10. Had a whole bag full of marbles for ammo. Well, our property bordered an 80 acre cow pasture, and the farmer had one big bull tending the cows. I did what 10 year old boys do with a sling shot when they see a bull. Not sure if that bull ever sired a calf.

 

[Bugzilla]

How was his accuracy on the tomatoes?

 

[Bigtanker]

Last night I was unloading a load of wood in my shed when I saw my, Minnie me, crossing the back yard with his pellet gun.
"Hey buddy, what are you shooting?"

"Hey Dad, been shooting tomatoes."

Puzzled I ask, "what tomatoes?"

""Ones in the garden."
Reminds me of the time I weeded Mom's garden and beat her rhubarb patch down with a stick.

What goes around comes around.

Hey. I just did that to my own tomatoes.

We had one that was split pretty bad on the vine. I pulled it off and set it on a stump in front of a larger tree. Loaded up the Gamo break barrel with a .177 flat point.

Oh it was beautiful.

With that said, when I was 9 or 10, dad gave me the youth model lever action Red Ryder type bb gun that would barely go through a pop can.
I shot anything and everything. I didn't destroy much (besides a window in a neighbors rusted out truck that hadn't moved in 20 years and was sunk past the frame in the ground.) I shot thousands of bb's the first year or two. Learned a lot.

 

[HoughMade]

I have a pumpkin vine about ready to take over everything. I may have to hire the young man to save us.

 

[yetti462]

How was his accuracy on the tomatoes?

He's a good shot. He doesn't play video games, he is outside with a blowgun, gamo, Remington scoremaster, bow or a fishing rod all the time. He's a dandy!

 

[510picker]

Reminds me of having cherry tomato wars in my parents garden when I was young. Got in big trouble when we got caught on war round #3.