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These would be funny if they were not true!

That is great! They tried to do the same thing with Kyle Busch, but he kept wrecking.

More great pictures, thanks Doug!

Nostalgia and history working together. Thanks for posting this great video!

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That's my kind of classroom. Those who look at education from the outside often only hear the rarer stories like the nerd gun. They don't get to see all the wonderful kids that we get to work with every day. Spend o couple days in most of our rural schools and it will rejuvenate your faith in our youth.

Oh no! I may be in trouble with my school. Our drama program uses glue guns when they are building sets, we have calking guns in our shop class, our PE program teaches archery, and we have a bunch of old Springfield rifles in our JROTC classroom. Heck, we even have our own competition Rifle team! Better send the PC police after me. They will find everyday at our school starts with the Pledge of Allegence, and our teams pray before games.

I think you educated that dog.

Great buck, great mount!

My 280 is back to 290...I have no will power without something like an elk tag as motivation. Maybe Imwill get some motivation later this month.

There are anti-gun idiots who have infiltrated every area of our economy. Some are in the education system. Don't blame the system, blame the idiots themselves. I am a proud gun toting, right wing conservative how is also part of the educational system. Please do not paint me with the same brush used on liberal idiots. Common sense has abandoned so many in our country.

There was a time that scores meant a lot to me, but those days are long gone. I have seen some ugly big deer and beautiful little ones. Now I decide to shoot or not based on how I feel about the situation. Usually a good day with friends and family will be a bigger factor than the score. Before this season I told myself that I won't mount any deer under 105. Well my daughter and I each shot beautiful bucks that were well short of that number, but they ended up at the taxidermists shop. It is the score of the memories that counts, not the score of the antlers.

What a wonderful adventure you have in front of you. Congratulations to you and your life.

Oh, you have some of the greatest times of your life ahead of you with youth hunts. Cherish every moment. Thanks for sharing this pic with us!

Wow Doug, I did not think you could raise the bar any higher, but you did. Thanks for sharing!

I started my kids off with a .243 cut down to fit them. It was my wife's rifle as a kid. At age 10 my daughter drew a youth elk tag. I had her try a .308 one day. It has been her favorite gun ever since and she has taken many animals with it. Caliber is important, but a gun that fits, and a child who knows the proper way to hold and shoot is also very important. A child who is not willing to firmly hold a rifle cab be scoped by a .223. Form, body position, and technique are skills that need to be learned. Take your time and teach these before you worry about accuracy. Do not start a kid off shooting at a zero target, start them off shooting at a hillside or the bank of a wash while you teach them how to shoot the gun. Once this is in place, then begin to develop accuracy. Teaching a kid to shoot is great fun and memories, enjoy every second.

Gotta love a front row seat to the circle of life! Thanks for posting.

Great write up and pictures. Hunting with my kids have been some of my greatest times in my life. Cherish every moment, they grow up so fast.

Very cool

Bet he will be a little smarter next year! Cool video, thanks for posting.

I sold two vehicles last week and bought one through Craigslist. Plenty of scammers, but we ignore all but those willing to meet face to face, cash in hand. Sold both cars to very genuine people who were willing to deal on our terms. We just ignored those who live on an oil rig, or a cruise ship, or are deployed and buying for a family member. On the vehicle we bought there was a lien so we met at his bank and completed the transaction through them. Craigslist reaches so many people, and it is free. I really appreciate their service. However, don't let the chance of a few bucks extra override your common sense.

You need to dedicate to that buck for the next six months. That is a great buck and one that will be worth your time. Good luck!

I agree Casey, fight or flight is a big part of it, but even when a teacher has the fight instinct, there is much more needed. 24 hours of training does not make a "fighter" a competent person in a horrific situation. There is so much more to it.

This topic is very complex, yet so often, the proposed solutions are just quick fix ideas. There is no quick fix to the potential of mass violence in a public school, nor is there any solution that is a "pretty" fix. Arming some staff members might be part of a solution, but many other steps need to be taken. A couple decades ago state governments, forced by federal legislation and precedence set through law suits, began to scale back the State mental systems and pushed many of those onto the public education system. The education system is ot designed or equipted to handle these patients, so they are passed on into society. Fear of law suits, privacy acts, and evaluation systems, punish schools that do not follow this approach. Our government has failed to enforce existing gun laws. All the while our society has continually looked for areas to place blame...bad childhood, poverty, ethnicity, social structure...rather than acknowledge that evil exists in our world and sometimes evil people attack our children. When one of the horrific situations happen, things have already gone bad. People are going to be wounded and die. At that point there is no way to make it OK, the goal must be to eliminate the threat, and that is done by killing the shooter. The training that one must go through to be prepared to run toward the shooting, step past dead and dying, and confront the shooter goes far beyond a three day course. Many who are drawn to the teaching profession, especially elementary education, have a compassionate, personality that is better suited to lending aid than mounting a counter attack. The type of personality needed to protect students is also vastly different than the average CCW person. Arming a staff member is not about self defense, it is about protection of others. Those are two greatly different things. Lessons have been learned through previous shootings. Law enforcement officials now realize that not all officers are able to perform as needed in an active shooter type of situation. Years of training have taught the officers to secure the site, and get reinforcement before moving in. This was the initial tactic at Columbine High...it did not work. The shooters continued to kill while plans were made. Active shooter training takes a different approach, one that is based on first on scene is the first to enter to eliminate the threat. I have spent many years working alongside teachers. A few of them might be good candidates to carry a gun in school, others might be trained to be competent, yet many others should never be considered. On my staff we have a sheriff deputy who retired after a career of service, but still works part time for the department. This teacher can legally carry on campus. We have another former deputy who is a maintenance worker. These, along with our JROTC instructors may be good candidates for this type if program. The biggest benefit of this type of legislation might not be the armed teacher themself, but rather the image that is created. Currently schools are "gun free zones". That is just an invitation to evil doers. By allowing local districts to choose if they want to participate in ths program, that image can be changed. Once the Governing Board votes to join the program, a sign is placed on the front gate the states "This School Participates in the Armed Staff Program". If staff members are armed, their identity needs to be kept concealed. Those individuals also must also be placed in strategic locations around campus. Student safety is something that I live everyday. It will never matter to a loving parent, how good the teachers are, how successful the athletic program is, how nice the facilities are, if their child is not safe. Sorry for the long post, but this is not a simple solution subject.

Another CWT class act!