What age you started taking your kids shooting?

[kdsd731]

Hey, just curious what age you started taking your kids shooting? And what was there first gun they shot?

[nimroder]

Started all of mine at 5, plinking with a Red Ryder BB gun. Best way to teach them about trigger finger and keeping the gun pointed where it needed to be. Moved them up to a .22 rifle on range days at about 6 and then they started shooting a 243 at age 8.

[thedonger]

Age 3, .22 single shot bolt gun with scope.

At age 9 he is now very comfortable with rifles and pistols and shoots 9mm when I let him but still love shooting the .22s.

[AK Junkie]

no kids but I got my first 22 on my 8th birthday.

[WASR10]

My kids all shot bb and airsoft from around 5. My two oldest got their first .22's at 10, but I felt my youngest wasn't mature enough until 12.

[rman]

i want to take my boss in a few years... but im afraid at 6 they will still be too immature.... but they got a pair of takedowns waiting!


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[Loubot10]

My two boys started shooting around 8yo. They didn't get to hunt with me until they were around 16yo. I'd planned to take them earlier but they couldn't follow the rule any earlier.

Rule:
If you're not responsible enough to keep your room clean and do your chores without being told, you're not responsible enough to be trusted with a gun.

Looking back it sounds kinda chickenschite but it paid off. We hunt and shoot together regularly. In fact it's the only thing they do without that "young man's" attitude.

[audiophil2]

Mine was 5 when he got a Crickett. Now at 8 he shoots full auto.

[john67elco]

Age 3 10-22

[bill_k_lopez]

5

[Mitch]

Rule:
If you're not responsible enough to keep your room clean and do your chores without being told, you're not responsible enough to be trusted with a gun.

Oh man.

So where do I turn in my guns?

[golfish]

My son was 8, I brought a H&R 9 shot revolver (22) and a Ithica model 66 .410

[Loubot10]

Oh man.

So where do I turn in my guns?

I was thinking the same thing while I wrote it! lol

But it wasn't the "clean" part more like "you had one job". It wasn't a condition after they were able to demonstrate enough awareness to make those things a priority on a regular basis.

They both graduated, are their own men, and have steady jobs.

THANK GOD!

[gunner336]

kids

Started mine at 5 . Same gun I started with. Winchester boys rifle. Single shot. Ring pull.

Now they shoot all.

[Deadon]

My daughter was 3. I bought her ear muffs just for her. The idea was to go shooting with the family when the father in law said "hey lets let her shoot the 10/22. I was all for it, we did a quick rundown of safety and my father in law sat behind her and pretty much did a lot of the work.

Shes 4 1/2 now but has a feel for what guns can do. The LOUD bang and the kick. Shes been told many times about gun safety and because of this I hope that if she ever comes in contact with a firearm and Im not around she will contact a adult before touching it.