It Is Good To Start Them Early

[VTDW]

I have 3 grandkids that love to help me reload and cast (they call it make metal). This is my 4 year old grandson Brock. This time I had him sort out 50 once fired brass for the .308MX. He used One Shot on the necks and deprimed and neck sized all 50 and said he was tired and we needed to go to the woods. :lol: So we went!! I do need to warn him about the hazards of Bud Light while reloading though. :lol:


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[mroliver77]

I cannot think of a better time than now. I started my girls young. I think they develope a "feel" for tools and keep it. Much better than parking him in front of a television.
J

[VTDW]

Good deal and true words. They love to help pa-pa in the shop and their questions are quite astute. All we need is to be patient with them and they will apply their knowledge and principles they learn in our shops to how they approach the big world as they grow into adulthood.

Dave

[AZ-Stew]

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

- Richard Henry Lee, Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic, (1787 - 1788)

Regards,

Stew

[ktw]

I had a pair of young nephews come up to visit with my dad last summer for a chance to spend some time at the range with their "shooting uncle".

It was humid and the bugs were bad. They still managed to rip through more than a brick of 22 ammo apiece, knocking down 22 silhouette targets using single shot rifles.

Later that evening we spent some time down in the reloading room. They were into everything. They were particularly fascinated with the casting setup, but that was more than I wanted to take on with a 7 yr old and a 10 yr old who tend to handle things first and ask questions later.

I needed a few minutes to set up some dies in a press and distracted them by showing them how to lube bullets in a lyman sizer: one feeding and operating the handle, the other inspecting and boxing, with grandpa supervising. Two hours later they were still at it and having a ball. They sized a huge pile of blasting bullets for my dad's 357 levergun and wrote their names on every box.

At one point the older nephew said to my dad "The next time we come here lets spend more time reloading and less time shooting". My dad expressed surprise that they enjoyed bullet sizing more than they did shooting. The younger one chimed in with "Are you kidding me? this is like a kid dream come true!".

-ktw

[kodiak1]

VTDW I hope you know that you will have to take full responsibility for hooking them children on such an addictive sport.

That look fantastic to me reminds me of my oldest grandson he is now 11 and wants to do it all on his own. The worst of it is he watches like a hawk and pretty much has everything down to a science.
He gets into his Cadence and just starts depriming or seating bullets and asking questions when he thinks something isn't right.

That is a trate that they will carry with them for life, There should be more parents and grandparents taking that kind of time with their children and I personnelly think the youth of today would get a lot more respect because they would have earned it.

This not only goes for reloading but anything if the parents show an intrest chances are the kids will TV excluded.

Be proud of yourself and get out there and blow your own horn my hat is off to you sir.
Ken.

[TCLouis]

4 years old and you have him drinking Bud Light and reloading.
Guess whiskey is out of the question for a couple of more years.

In all seriousness, for all of you with youngsters and lead make sure the wash their hands well after any exposure, casting or handling spent cases/primer they are all exposures to lead.

For us COFs there is little effect with that level of lead exposure, but maybe not so with the little guys and ladies.

[Calamity Jake]

I remember my first granddaughter at 8 or 9 months old setting in my lap pulling the handle on my lube a matic II sizing 45 ACP's. Daughter got a wild hair and ran off with some diphead and I didn't get to see her for 4-5 years. Started her shooting at about 8 years old, she shot her first cowboy match at 10 using 22 pistols and pump gun and a DB 410, I have a picture of her loading them 410's on a Mec 600 at age 11. She is now 15 and will in april compete in her 5th Landrun, a 3 day, with 250+ shooters, cowboy action match.

[KCSO]

I had a picture like that on my desk at work was was taken to task by an HHS worker for, "subjecting a child to a hazardous work environment". Don't let Social Services know you have kids and lead in the same room.

I'snt this a sorry state?

[762cavalier]

That is great. I got my son casting bullets for me this weekend and he thought it was pretty fun. something about molten metal:-D

By the way what is that tray attached to the turret press? It looks pretty useful.

[VTDW]

762cavalier,

I made that little tray from a plastic bin and riveted a bent piece of aluminum in it to keep the primers from bouncing out onto the floor.

Dave