Question
When you say sponsor a youth in gunsmithing, what age group are you refering to? Gunsmithing schools are trade schools with some students minimum ages around 20 years old, and right out of high school. Not old enough to own a hand gun. The course of instruction covers all aspects of gunsmithing. I am not particularly interested in sponsoring a student to study AR-15's. I would be interested in sponsoring a student who participated in an extended specified course of study on side by side shotguns taught by a well qualified instructor like Dennis Potter or someone of his caliber and I don't especially care how old the student is as long as the student has productive years left.
I have looked for such a course on side by sides for several years and all I can find are 2 week NRA courses at Trinidad, Colorado. Montgomery Community College in Troy, North Carolina, has an excellent gunsmithing course but they can't find an instructor to teach the 2 week NRA side by side course.
Something to consider might be an internship for a promising student at one of our better gunsmiths after the student graduates from the gunsmith school. A 12 month internship with emphasis on side by side shotguns should produce a pretty gun gunsmith. And if you would want to establish a maximum age, great.
Just an old man think out loud.
Cheers, Tom
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