re: Friend bought his son an Air Soft gun !

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I guess it's safe and the Dad doesn't have to put out the effort of teaching hunting skills and all . My 10 year old has a 22mg , 20 ga, 410 and 243 . In todays world it might freak me out a little to see a kid coming down the street packing one of these . Just saying .

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My boys have all the gun's you mentioned but replace the .243 with a 7mm08. They also love airsoft. There are about 6 boys all 12 and under within walking distance of our house that join up in the woods and have 'wars'. I'm lucky enough to live in the country where they have more land than their legs would care to cover in one day to play around on, so they aren't walking down the street with them in a highly populated area. I don't spend $350 on individual guns, but they do have several hundred dollars worth(some bought with their own money). We used to play the same games back in the day, but we filled our pockets with rocks to throw at each other.