The best news about kids: While they have far more options for entertainment than we did when we were growing up, the school trapshooting teams (Scholastic Clay Target Program) are hooking a lot of them on guns and shooting. If there are birds around, the fact they already know a bit about guns and shooting puts them ahead of where I was when my dad handed me a shotgun. I think I may have been 26 or 27 when I shot my first clay target. But by that time, I'd already shot quite a few squirrels, rabbits, and pheasants--many of the latter in the "pre-flight" position.
