This is the greatest holiday season of them all. It’s a time when family feels really close together and the spirits of most people are at a high point of the year. Everyone seems to be thinking of what they will buy their favorite friend, and what would the kids really like that would make it a very memorable Christmas. As an adult looking back on all those years, I can think of one gift I always wanted to receive from my parents but never got it. That gift was a gun of my very own. Even today as an adult I wish once my wife and family would have purchased some gun I really wanted to own. If your son or daughter is at the age where they enjoy shooting, believe me if you want to see them go wild with excitement on Christmas day, buy them that gun.

They will never stop talking about it, nor as long as they live will they ever forget what you bought for them –guaranteed!! One thing you want to do is disguise the box by adding to the size or whatever so they will not have an inkling of what might be in it. Put yourself in their shoes as if you were that age opening that box and you will know exactly the thrill it will create.

When I was sixteen I asked my father if I could buy a bolt action Mossberg 16 ga. shotgun a friend of my brother’s was selling. He said no! My brother butted in and said “Dad, he wants to buy a gun for $15. He is not spending the money on booze or cigarettes, just something he really enjoys “. My father said go ahead and buy the gun. I was tickled pink, but now I really wish my dad had said let me think about it and bought the gun secretly and presented it to me as a present. Then I would have really been ecstatic!

Talk it over as parents who really love and want to just thrill their child down to their toes this Christmas. It will also give you a chance to tell his teacher what a wholesome sport shooting is, because you know he is going to tell everyone about his present. Children that grow up enjoying the outdoors be it shooting or fishing, most of the time will stay away from the drug scene, the gang scene and just trouble in general. Their big interest will lie in the outdoors. If any of you do this I would love to hear about it. Please write me at the address below and let me know if this wasn’t the best Christmas yet. They will relive that moment over and over again their whole life!


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