Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Backwoods Home ^ | November/December, 2018 | John Moody

[SkyDancer]

Interesting how just a few years back all was good with kids and firearms - today even if a kid just mentions a gun in school they’re suspended. Remember that idiot teacher who sent a kid to the office because he ate the corner off a Pop Tart and he said it looked like a gun?

[jospehm20]

Yep. It is insane. I think it is just the morons running the school, young people do not seem to hate guns. My kids and grandkids all like shooting and so do their friends. I always see young people at the ranges I go to.

[SkyDancer]

Liberals continue to constantly keep us entertained.

[BikerTrash]

I think it was called The Beaver made in Oregon(??)

Chipmunk.

[USS Alaska]

Let’s not leave the girls out of this instruction.

When my grand daughter was eight {she is now 16} I introduced her to target shooting with a scoped 22.

She was a natural and shot 8 out of ten bulls at 25 yards. She got so good that I convinced her dad to get her a good target 22 rifle and a real, professional instructor. He did.

She started shooting competition, and did very well and then discovered boys and her interest in competitive shooting has diminished.

When she comes to visit, we still go out and shoot a couple of hundred rounds, and she is very good, but she has lost the desire to go after it hard, and I'm OK with that.

I believe that she could excel in the sport but you've got to want it.

She loves to shoot my pistols, so I'm happy that I've got another shooter {and female member of the NRA} in my family.

[SkyDancer]

Ahh. Thanks!

[Daffynition]

Most excellent. You never know, she may pick up the sport again.

You meet the nicest/best people through shooting.

You have every reason to be very proud of her.

And CONGRATS to you too!

Our family comes from a long line of competition shooters and the shooting industry...it seems to be in the blood.

B/c of the local involvement in the industry, all the nearby schools have shooting clubs; kids get picked up after school, and go to the range for instruction, and have competitions most weekends.

FWIW, the sport takes a lot of skill, and practice. And when you get to the *bigs*, it gets very expensive.

[trebb]

Reminds me of my Dad teaching me..got me a Daisy BB gun when I was 4 and had to put a sawhorse up for me to rest the barrel on. Gave me verbal explanations and used hand-made drawings of what the sight picture should look like when I aimed (also helped me develop other visual/mental skills by focusing on concepts a 4 year old generally doesn't concentrate on).

When Dad died, I got his guns and since we both sighted the same, every one of them was already set up as if I had sighted them in.

[Do the math]

Start with a Daisy Red Ryder. My dad gave me one on my seventh birthday. His instructions were quite simple, shoot anything alive, or valuable and I'll shove that rifle so far up your a$$ that you will need a team of surgeons to remove it. He then spent with me several hours on proper gun safety training.

I'm a US Army to expert, and NRA Sharpshooter with only one bar. GOD I miss my DAD.

[Big Red Badger]

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