I'm not into hunting either - however I've been known to stand on the dining room chair in my nightie and use my air rifle to pluck rabbits through the window that our in the back yard chewing up my garden. With all the leash laws in the community the dogs and cats that used to roam are no longer able to keep the rabbits away. I learned how to shoot a gun when I was a little kid and had gun safety training when I was in the sixth grade - I hunted deer a few years after that and got a few and ended up with buck fever in the long run and quit hunting. I appreciate and respect parents that teach their kids the right way about guns and safety. When my son was young and wanted a BB gun he had to learn the rules of gun safety before he could get one and the biggest rule was he couldn't aim his toy guns at people - if he did then he was grounded from his toy for ten days and he would have to wait that much longer to get a BB gun - SAFETY FIRST.