Shooter’s Elbow

I’ve never been a shooter; though I grew up in an Army family, guns weren’t a part of my childhood, and shooting never interested me much (I think it was this “The Rifleman” episode, caught on the same Boston TV station that broadcast the ’50s monster movies that scarred my psyche, that quashed my interest). Jack and Peter are engineers–they construct complex Lego-Lincoln Log-block structures that can fill a room and consume hours of concentration–and they’ve never shown much interest in guns, either. But when we had the chance to try BB guns at Cub Scout camp, we decided to take the opportunity. And they seem to have enjoyed it, though the guns were a little big for them and I think they hit the target a combined half-dozen times.