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Hey Anti-Gunners: How About We Invest in our Kids instead of Using them for Political Fodder?
With all the nationwide political drama as of late concerning kids “walking out” of school in protest to gun laws and in the process unknowingly being used as political pawns by the left to enact more useless “gun control” laws on law abiding citizens, I am reminded of a wonderful experience me and my son had around four years ago when we took part in Dustin Ellerman’s Youth Marksmanship Camp.
For those of you that don’t remember, Dustin was the winner of Season 3 of History Channel’s Top Shot Competition series. Besides being an outstanding Shootist (and I use that word sparingly because to me it denotes a level of mastery with a firearm rarely seen nowadays) Dustin is first and foremost a Christian youth pastor who has devoted his life to mentoring kids and leaving this world a little bit better than he found it. I have met the guy personally and can tell you he is the real deal and practices what he preaches.
Listen folks, we can talk all day about how high divorce rates, single parent (fatherless) homes and overly-medicating kids with psychotropic drugs have contributed to the plague of mass shootings by teenagers and young adults in the last twenty years, not to mention the “culture of convenience murder” we have condoned since the passing of Roe v Wade. Is it really any wonder kids have no respect for life anymore?
If we really want to make an impact on this generation of kids and not allow them to be a big part of helping to weaken and/or destroy the Second Amendment to their own peril, we are gonna have to start doing LESS talking and MORE action.
How do we do that?
Well one of the many ways besides the obvious of taking your kids/nephew/niece/cousins/neighbor’s kids shooting is to Support Camps and Organizations like Dustin Ellerman’s.
Check around your local and regional area and see what exist. You might be surprised at what you find.
Just off the top of my head here are a couple of National Organizations whose core mission is firearm education and shooting fundamentals for kids and young adults.
While the Left is focused on USING our kids for political gain and in the process destroying our Constitutional freedoms, how about the rest of us who actually care about the future of our youth and the Second Amendment do something POSITIVE and LIFE CHANGING?
It’s simpler than you think!
Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Take a Kid Shooting Today!
Field Report: Dustin Ellerman’s Youth Marksmanship Camp
Not far from where I hang my hat, nestled in the Piney Woods of East Texas is Camp His Way, run by Season 3 Top Shot Champion Marksman Dustin Ellerman. When Dustin is not busy with shooting exhibitions or running his Summer Youth Camp, he also offers weekend Adult and Youth Marksmanship Camps. Me and my 10 year old were fortunate enough to attend this camp recently, so I wanted to give my readers a run down on this outstanding 2 day Christian oriented marksmanship camp.
First off, you should know this is a camp that YOU attend with your kid, it is not something where you drop your kids off and then pick them up in 2 days. You will definitely get some quality bonding time, but understand up front, that this is a camp FOR THE KIDS, so don’t think you will get any trigger time on the cool weapons!!
Also, it is an all-inclusive camp; all of your eats and boarding are taken care of, all you are required to bring is a minimal list of personal items and shooting safety gear for you and your child. The camp is equipped with a very nice cafeteria, where breakfast, lunch and dinner is served. The male dorms come with all the mod cons and are big enough to sleep over 50 people.
Secondly, the kids will get a chance to use a variety of “Top-Shot-Esque” primitive weapons also.
The list includes:
- bow and arrow
- blowguns
- tomahawks
- spetsnaz shovels
- throwing knives
- slingshots and even rocks!
Dustin creatively uses all of these challenges to teach basic Christian character principles in a way that kids can easily grasp and apply everyday in their lives. Dustin also uses competition to teach teamwork, dividing up the 16 kids in our camp into two, 8 person teams. The kids all get a chance to have a turn on each weapon and then a team competition is held. The team that has won the most events at the end of the camp get a special “prize.”
Of course, after the primitive weapons, and after an intensive firearms safety lecture, Dustin breaks out the Rimfire’s; including the Smith & Wesson AR .22 Rifle, the HK (Umarex) MP-5 .22 and the uber-cool, extremely accurate, Volquartsen scoped .22 Target Rifle (The same type of rifle in which Dustin in Season 3 of Top Shot shot a golf ball at 100 yards). The kids get plenty of time on all the guns, and Dustin was very generous, despite the ongoing .22 ammo shortage, giving each child 15 rounds per gun.
Unlike most training classes, this one is unique in that the fun does not stop when the sun goes down. Dustin has combined 2 things that scream FUN to any kid and most adults: a Zip-line and A Semi-Auto Paintball gun rigged with a powerful light and laser! The zipline runs about 70 yards through the camp and set up along the way are various paper targets and at the end of the ride a reactive steel target. Use your imagination to fill in the rest..and yes, the kids had a blast!! I can tell you I had just as much fun watching them!!
In closing Guys, this camp is something you need to do with your kids!
Dustin has made it affordable and extremely accessible so everybody can enjoy it. He has taken care of everything but your transportation, so you really have no excuses not to attend. In comparison to similar type camps, you definitely get more than what you paid for!
There is also the aspect that some people may not see as I did going into the camp; In the world that we currently live in, where Christianity and Godly character are under attack and our Constitutional Freedoms regarding Firearm Rights are being challenged everyday, what better way to ensure both survive than to invest and teach the next generation how important they are?
Stay Dangerous, Stay Armed and Pray Hard!
