gun safety

[junior w mayberry a.ka.breed]

when our group goes out to do gunfights at events,we show how dangerous blanks can be by shooting a empty pop can then shoot a one gallen jug of water with a double barrel shotgun it explodes then we tell the kids if they see a gun to go and get a adult to go and get it and tell them the dangers of guns and not to play with them     how does your gunfighting group do a gun safety  before you do your gunfight at any event   

[David Lee Anders, Sr.]

Hey Breed, My group does something like that. We stress how in the wrong hands a gun can be harmful. And we blow up the pop can( they don't survive the blank) and the shotgun with cardboard(burned some cardboard in some demo's) We stress safety at all shows and rehersals.

[junior w mayberry a.ka.breed]

this year we are doing the safty with the pop cans and i'm trying out something differant to go with this i have a stick horse i made for a adult i'm putting on a hat thats pinned back then i'm riding my play horse up to my freind pertending to be a little kid i'll ask my freind if he wants to play marshall and outlaws and i'll spot a gun lying on a stump and pick it up my freind will tell me lets go and get an adult i'll say its not loaded and start playing with it it goes off and shoots him down in a sad voice as the adults come over and asked what happened i'll say i just shot my best freind and they will ask me why didn't you go and get a adult i'll say i thought it was unloaded then go to shooting a can with a blank and a gallon jug of water think it'll work

[Unkle Sherman]

Ya'll might reconsider a shooting child, even a grown-up pretending to be one, in front of
real children. Certainly piss me off in front of mine. Really bad taste.

[junior w mayberry a.ka.breed]

so your saying that its wrong to show young kids what can happen, if they see a gun and play with one.

[David Lee Anders, Sr.]

Breed, I have to side with Unkle Sherman on this one. It is one thing to shoot a pop can or cardboard sheet and then tell the kids that they will be hurt much worse. But to use a actor to play a child that finds a gun and then finds out what his misaction can do? I think showing what happens to the can(which is slighty stronger than skin) or the cardboard is a better lesson than showing them a child(adult actor) gunned down. They see enough of that on the nightly news. We are performing and we have to stress that a gun can be harmful in the wrong hands, but not to the point of scaring the crap out of kids! We are entertainers,first and formost. We have to stress safety, just not in a heavy handed way. Just my two cents......

[junior w mayberry a.ka.breed]

point taken will trash this idea thanks for the input

[C. F. 'Charley' Eckhardt]

Back when we had a group, before all of us got too old & stove up to do it any more, I'd put a blank in my Remington RB .43 Spanish, loaded w/abt 65 gr FFg & a tight paper wad. We'd get an old gallon-size paint bucket & set it up & I'd let fly at it from about 8 ft. The charge usually blew a hole in the side of the bucket. Once we showed that to the crowd--the bucket usually flew 10 or 12 feet after being shot--we had no trouble with people getting in front of the guns.