My wife actually discovered that she's friends with someone that's a member there that would sponsor us. If I end up actually following through (damn ADHD, I swear, I suck at following through) and getting a membership there, I'd be happy to sponsor you.
I was actually a member at LGC years back. A neighbor hooked me up with the membership back before the ranges were locked down and all that. It was a decent range, but I never got into the meetings and stuff and let my membership lapse.
I ended up getting an email from sportsman warehouse about a sale they’re having. I ended up getting a Tristar Cobra III 20ga pump. It’s not top of the line by any stretch of the imagination, but it should get him going for a while.
Contact Andrea Bailey. She's super fast at responding every time I've contacted her with questions. County Clerk | Livingston County, NY - Official Website
Yeah. I got the sense from the instructors (volunteers from the club) were pretty annoyed with many of the current laws, though there was some hedging toward FUDD a couple times. I'll have to find a sponsor, but I'll probably pull the trigger on it sooner rather than later.
My son recently took his hunter safety course at the HF&GC and at the end, they talked to us about membership to the club and how reasonably priced it is ($40-$45/yr family rate). I'm curious if anyone has ever been a member there, and if it's worth doing, or any other experiences with the club.
I'll admit I've pulled away from shooting a bit because things have just gotten so damn complicated as of late with the new laws and the back and forth rulings. It's mind boggling to keep track of.
Is there a resource out there to help track/understand not only the laws, but the ongoing...
In doing some digging, the Mossberg 510 mini super bantam looks like a solid choice. I'm leaning shotgun because while we live in a rifle county, slugs are still an option. Couple that with the flexibility of the adjustable LOP, and the fact that it can accept 500 stocks (possibly 500 barrels...
I do plan on throwing some target load in that for him to try some bigger bang than he's used to. I have some rifled slugs for it as well, but I'm hesitant to have him use this gun for it just because of the single bead sights. It'll be a challenge for him to aim it. BUT, it's not out of the...
I am thinking about getting him something like one of those little .22LR crickets, one that he can call his own instead of borrowing mine or his mom's.
Good point. He's in the neighborhood of 85-90 lbs, so he's not a terribly big kid. He hasn't grown into himself yet.
.243 was something I was thinking of as well.
It's certainly worth looking into. I'm still a bit unsure of what he'd hunt with that outside of squirrels.
Granted, it would be a start. I'm really hesitant to jump to a shotgun for him before he gets a chance to feel some recoil.
Sadly, I won't be able to get him a 10/22, or any other semi-automatic rifle. FUKH for that one. It'll have to be straight up bolt/pump action for him at this point.
My oldest took, and passed his hunter safety course a couple weeks ago. He's only 11, so we have a bit of time as he can't hunt until he's 12, but we're starting to look into getting him his first hunting gun, possibly for Christmas.
The problem is that he wants to hunt EVERYTHING, so it's...
I mean, we have enough drivers right now (well, enough to get it done, I'm sure they'd prefer more). The biggest issue our district has, as a rural district, is distance. It's also entirely possible, like others have said, is that they'd need to increase the routes due to battery range...
Our school district has already determined they'd have to, at minimum, double their bus fleet to be able to handle bussing in a single day. They'd essentially need a fleet for the morning and a fleet for the afternoon runs.