When you can’t go to the range and just want to chill at home, but still keep your skills up. 
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Sounds like a good time to me. Just don’t shoot yet eye out kid!
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I bought the “Grandpa-Granddaughter” set last year. Fun. Fun. Fun. 
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That’s a great photo. Also, looks fun.
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Nice! Which Red Ryder model was that? I have the cheap version they sell at Walmart.
By the way, passed Arkansas on my way to Missouri and saw this but didn’t get a chance to go to the museum.
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I make sure we watch A Christmas Story every year during the Holidays. Last year my wife finally asked why the obsession with the film and I told her it was MY story, except that my dad, over my mom’s objections (including the infamous “You’ll shoot your eye out!” warning), finally did buy me a Crosman CO2 powered pellet gun when I turned 10. I loved that rifle and still have it, BUT, I was always sad I never got my Daisy Red Rider.
The on Christmas Day I’m looking at my phone and I yell out SONOFABITCH!!!
One of my best friends knew this childhood trauma, and he sent me a picture of one of the boxes under his Christmas tree and it’s a freaking brand new Red Ryder!!! I told my wife, “I HATE HIM”!!!
Roll forward two days and an Amazon box shows up at my house with, yep, a brand new Red Ryder! My mother in law overheard both conversations and decided I really needed to get my rifle! 
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I am getting my grand daughter a BB gun but I have not decided which one yet. I know she will enjoy it!
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You want something that will up your game? Try shooting and hitting a wood bee. Not talking about honey bees. Female wood bees tunnel into any exposed wood and lay eggs. The larva then grow into adults and chew their way out the side of the wood. Making your wood half as strong or less.
The males act as guardians and hover close to the queen. They dart back and forth making very hard targets to hit.
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We did the same with Dragon Flies on the river with .22s. Fired 100s and 100s of rounds and only hit 3. 
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My wife got two of the cheap models from Walmart as well, pink for her, blue for me. They are pretty accurate though. 
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That’s pretty funny. We also watch A Christmas Story every Christmas day.
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I’ll pass on shooting any bee hives, I’ll stick to ground squirrels
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Not the hives but the hovering guards that dive bomb you when you get close. You couldn’t hit the nest anyway. It’s drilled into, usually, an open 2x4 holding up a roof or walkway. They do tremendous damage.
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My Christmas Story happened when I was 8 and got my Daisy BB gun. Living in Arizona, I hunted grasshoppers since there was (is) an endless supply.
I must have fired over 100,000 rounds, which served me very well in my competitive shooting days throughout my lifetime.
I remember one day at our ranch, the kids dragged out the resident BB gun and said, “Shoot a grasshopper.” Standing on the porch, we rapidly spotted one, and per request, I shot the thing. The looks were priceless “holy ■■■■, the old man really CAN!”
Other targets include cockroaches, Woodborer Bees, centipedes (I still hate them), and so on. AZ supplies a near-endless array of targets. My Mom used to sit and giggle while I shot roaches.
But that’s not the point of this missive. What hits me is the apparent cutesy, mindless, infantile macho blather about “Whiskey… (insert anything gun related)”.
I have no objection to drinking of any sort; I have a libation after a hard day of hunting, just like everyone else. BUT to have alcohol around “live” guns, BB or any other, is one of the most braindead, idiotic (and again) infantile things one can do, IMO, yet it is regularly announced in forums such as this.
Is this REALLY something we want to promote and/or even tolerate?
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Someone always has to come along and suck the fun out of an innocent past time. 
What a man does in the privacy of his own yard is no one else’s business. 
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Am I to take it that you’re one of those fruit flies who think’s it’s ok to mix alcohol and guns?
"Suck the fun? I’ve been doing this, training people the whole while, for over 60 years.
FUN? You haven’t a clue.
Have a nice night. Don’t take yourself so seriously. 
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Don’t excuse you’re contemptible behavior.
Haha! BB guns shooting on a ranch while sipping whiskey = getting drunk around LIVE GUNS.
Dude, chill out. Don’t be a braindead idiotic white dude for Harris.
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