GUNS Magazine January 1960

Spotting shots for prone rifleman reveals cut-down M75 Winchester can do a
good job, almost like bigger M52. Rest gives young shooter confidence quickly.
KIDS FROM TOTS UP GAIN SELF RELIANCE. GOOD GUN HABITS. AND
PRACTICAL FIELD-SHOOTING SKILL FROM THIS FUN-TARGET COURSE
Backing up Junior may be needed with first grader
until he develops skill in handling gun. Drop of
stock adapts little rifle to small bodies, big heads.
By ALLYN H. TEDMON
"JUNIOR TRAINFIRE" originated years ago when my
wife and I set out to teach our boys the type of
rifle training we hoped would guard them from gun
"accidents" and at the same time satisfy the gun hunger
that exists, sometimes undiscovered but there, in every
American boy and girl. Our program was an unqualified
success, for our kids and for others; and when I saw
"Trainfire I," the best rifle training program the Army
has yet produced, being fired at Fort Carson, Colorado,
I asked the Army for permission to call our plan "Junior
Trainfire." I got permission. It fits; the two programs
teach the same basic principals of rifle marksmanship.
The child (or the G.!.) who masters either "Junior Trainfire"
or Trainfire I is not only "safe," he (or she) is
ready for those vital, unexpected shots that pop up in the
hunting field or in combat.
Our eldest son received his first rifle when he was
about 51j2 years old: a Stevens Maynard Jr..22 .with a
Lyman tang sight. At about the same age, the second boy
acquired a Stevens Little Scout, altered to fit, with an
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