First gun Christmas for my son

[reed1285]

It was a special Christmas for my son this year. He is 5 and "Santa" brought him his first real gun. Of course it had to be a KSA Crickett: black synthetic stock with stainless barrel. His eyes and face when he saw it were priceless on Christmas morning, so Santa did good! Here is a quick shot of us shooting it for the first time the other day. We went through a couple hundred rounds and had a blast. Hope all you folks had a great holiday season!

 

[gregintenn]

Those Crickets are great little rifles.

[reed1285]

On 1/3/2022 at 7:59 AM, gregintenn said:

Those Crickets are great little rifles.

It really is. I couldnt be any happier with it. Such a fun little shooter!

[Jeb48]

A fellow that I know slightly has a bunch of kids I mean a bunch. Was at a gun auction 7-8 years ago and they but a Cricket up. Wining bidder could take 1 or up to 5. Everyone was holding back figuring they pick one up without running up the price. He took them all. 

[hipower]

Did that at an auction about 10 years back. A set of Colt Commerative 1911s...WWII pistols. Gorgeous guns. Bought at a good,but not great price.

Sadly, I took an offer on them later. Wish I'd kept them.

[gregintenn]

On 1/6/2022 at 9:16 PM, Jeb48 said:

A fellow that I know slightly has a bunch of kids I mean a bunch. Was at a gun auction 7-8 years ago and they but a Cricket up. Wining bidder could take 1 or up to 5. Everyone was holding back figuring they pick one up without running up the price. He took them all. 

My kids have one each. They ran a lot of ammo through them when they were small. I shot them quite a bit as well.

[DispositionMatrix]

On 1/3/2022 at 8:20 AM, reed1285 said:

It was a special Christmas for my son this year. He is 5 and "Santa" brought him his first real gun. Of course it had to be a KSA Crickett: black synthetic stock with stainless barrel. His eyes and face when he saw it were priceless on Christmas morning, so Santa did good! Here is a quick shot of us shooting it for the first time the other day. We went through a couple hundred rounds and had a blast. Hope all you folks had a great holiday season!

You can't go wrong with a Cricket for a child that age. There is no substitute for easing young children into shooting rifles to prevent lifelong problems with anticipating and the like. Wish I had been given one and taught at that age instead of being subject to self-righteous lectures on the evils of firearm ownership.