{"id":6181,"date":"2020-03-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T20:52:31","slug":"advice-from-boonie-the-boondocks-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/advice-from-boonie-the-boondocks-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"ADVICE FROM BOONIE, THE BOONDOCKS MASCOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I recently had the pleasure of teaching a 40-hour class at Boondocks Firearms Training Academy in Raymond, Mississippi.  The picturesque range has all the modern training conveniences including shoothouses, beaucoup shooting bays, an excellent classroom and, yes, indoor plumbing in all the convenient places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Owned by Mark and Kim Condon, the organization hosts groups like The Well-Armed Woman, and offers free firearms safety training for the local community. Mark told me that NRA would provide materials for its child safety effort, the Eddie Eagle program, but they would not authorize the Eddie Eagle costume for any entity but law enforcement.  Kim and Mark wanted a mascot they could put in front of the kids in costume to answer their questions. Thus was born Boonie, the gun safety dog.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, brother\nMark has a way with words.  When he\ncautions students to be aware of their surroundings and keep their nose out of\ntheir smartphones, he uses the succinct warning, \u201cGet your head out of your\napp.\u201d  I think I may steal that\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They trimmed the Eddie Eagle mantra from four instructions to three.  From Eddie Eagle, it\u2019s \u201cStop. Don\u2019t touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.\u201d  From Boonie, it\u2019s \u201cPaws (pause). Turn tail.  Sniff out an adult.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCute\u201d makes\nit easy to remember for the target audience, first through third grade\nchildren. Retention is also enhanced by the imagery of the paws, the dog\u2019s rear\nend, and the doggeh\u2019s sniffer.  (Boonie\nis, naturally, a sheepdog wearing a gun concealment vest.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve found\nadult males can remember Eddie Eagle\u2019s advice easily by channeling what their\nlady loves tell them when they catch them eying another woman: \u201cStop. Don\u2019t\ntouch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come to\nthink of it, that should work with Boonie\u2019s advice, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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