j-bird
Moderator
Buying your kid a gun..... my kids just claim mine as their own! They are legal adults.....and they still got grubby, sticky little fingers!! They get all upset when I want to use MY gun.
I would bet that most hunters started off with either a Mossy 500, Remington 870 or a Winchester 1300 of some configuration...at least around here. Indiana was not legal to deer hunt with a rifle for a LONG time......so we was slinging pumpkin balls out of a scatter gun. They was relatively cheap and plenty durable. My mossy 500 has fallen out of trees, been used as a boat paddle, and killed more critters than all my other guns combined....I might have cleaned it a time or two. It's beat up.....but scars tell cool stories. Fancy guns are like fancy cars.....great to look at and impress people with, but sometimes you need a late 80's fox body shitbox to just thrash and have some fun with! We ain't here for a long time, so we better make it a good time!!
I would bet that most hunters started off with either a Mossy 500, Remington 870 or a Winchester 1300 of some configuration...at least around here. Indiana was not legal to deer hunt with a rifle for a LONG time......so we was slinging pumpkin balls out of a scatter gun. They was relatively cheap and plenty durable. My mossy 500 has fallen out of trees, been used as a boat paddle, and killed more critters than all my other guns combined....I might have cleaned it a time or two. It's beat up.....but scars tell cool stories. Fancy guns are like fancy cars.....great to look at and impress people with, but sometimes you need a late 80's fox body shitbox to just thrash and have some fun with! We ain't here for a long time, so we better make it a good time!!