About 2 yrs ago a buddy and I started taking kids hunting shooting and fishing. Usually kids of single parents or just otherwise busy parents who are interested but have no family link, we have the time and equipment and enjoy the looks they get when they have a good day.
We've spent a lot of time with twin brothers how are very eager and all around good kids, other than being good they kinda remind us of ourselves 15yrs ago.
The 1 brother is really into archery, when we started with them he was using a recurve bow he bought at a yard sale that was pretty much junk but it was all he had until he could save up money for a new 1 and ft your into archery you know they ain't cheap. My buddy is sponsered by a big name bow manufacture whom is big into the youth movement so a phone call and the price of UPS shipping later we had him a brand new top of the line bow(ny buddy and I are both lefty so we couldn't just give him 1 of our bows) minus arrows. tips and release. My bud make arrows and between us we had 2 dozen releases laying around so it was pretty easy to get him all geared up for very little cost.
Now his brother is into trap shooting and he's pretty good at it, kicks our asses already. He was using 1 of my shotty's until he could get 1 of his own, My old HS shop teacher trains JR olympic shooters, thats what he does now. So we went to his house to shoot 1 night so he could give him a few lessons he has a lighted trap range in his backyard and he knows what he's doing. He recognised my gun and that it didn't fit we got to talking about what kind of gun would be good and how much they cost. My old teach ask the brother how much money he had on him, it was like 32$ an change, then went to his gun room came out with a very lightly used O/U and told the brother mow my lawn and give me your money and it's yours . Of course he took the deal.
Now where the dilemma comes in.
This all took place up until last september, they would leave the stuff at my house and they would comeover and we'd go shooting. In april they turned 15 and their mom bought the a membership to a sportsmans club thats half a mile from their house and she told them they could bring their stuff home which they did, I thought they were responsible enough. Somewhere along the way their mom googled the gun and bow and realised how much the stuff costs and knew that there was no way the boys could afford that. They told her how they got the stuff but she doesn't really believe it and thinks we paid for the stuff and is going crazy trying to figure out how to repay us and saying she'll pay us back and that the boys will work it off.
What do we do?
Sorry it's so long but I though you needed the whole story. It's an akward situation that we can't figure out. It's not like we spent any real money most of the money we spend is on gas and food all the major stuff we aquired.
We've spent a lot of time with twin brothers how are very eager and all around good kids, other than being good they kinda remind us of ourselves 15yrs ago.
The 1 brother is really into archery, when we started with them he was using a recurve bow he bought at a yard sale that was pretty much junk but it was all he had until he could save up money for a new 1 and ft your into archery you know they ain't cheap. My buddy is sponsered by a big name bow manufacture whom is big into the youth movement so a phone call and the price of UPS shipping later we had him a brand new top of the line bow(ny buddy and I are both lefty so we couldn't just give him 1 of our bows) minus arrows. tips and release. My bud make arrows and between us we had 2 dozen releases laying around so it was pretty easy to get him all geared up for very little cost.
Now his brother is into trap shooting and he's pretty good at it, kicks our asses already. He was using 1 of my shotty's until he could get 1 of his own, My old HS shop teacher trains JR olympic shooters, thats what he does now. So we went to his house to shoot 1 night so he could give him a few lessons he has a lighted trap range in his backyard and he knows what he's doing. He recognised my gun and that it didn't fit we got to talking about what kind of gun would be good and how much they cost. My old teach ask the brother how much money he had on him, it was like 32$ an change, then went to his gun room came out with a very lightly used O/U and told the brother mow my lawn and give me your money and it's yours . Of course he took the deal.
Now where the dilemma comes in.
This all took place up until last september, they would leave the stuff at my house and they would comeover and we'd go shooting. In april they turned 15 and their mom bought the a membership to a sportsmans club thats half a mile from their house and she told them they could bring their stuff home which they did, I thought they were responsible enough. Somewhere along the way their mom googled the gun and bow and realised how much the stuff costs and knew that there was no way the boys could afford that. They told her how they got the stuff but she doesn't really believe it and thinks we paid for the stuff and is going crazy trying to figure out how to repay us and saying she'll pay us back and that the boys will work it off.
What do we do?
Sorry it's so long but I though you needed the whole story. It's an akward situation that we can't figure out. It's not like we spent any real money most of the money we spend is on gas and food all the major stuff we aquired.
