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What age do you think kids should start shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ronald W Schaefer" data-source="post: 1898008" data-attributes="member: 109378"><p>It depends on their maturity, physicality and interest. There are some 13 y/o I wouldn't want on the range with me, let alone handling firearms. My boys both started shooting .22 LR about 6 and went hunting/shooting with me often to watch. I waited for them to get behind the stock when they really, really wanted to do it, I felt their attention span, interest was sufficient and they demonstrated understanding of the rules. We talked about safety and did a lot of dry fire and handling exercises and did the demonstrations of effect on watermelons and waterfilled filled milk jugs (IRL its not like the cartoons). They traded up to centerfire when they showed enough body size to confidently handle the little Browning A-Bolt Micro-Medallion youth rife in 7mm-08 I won at a Ducks' unlimited event. FYI they've killed over 70 head of game with it, all one shot DRT kills. I still have that rifle for the grand kids someday. We always wore ear protection and practiced shooting off the bench and the sticks. They both started off with padded vests even though the '08 was pretty recoil friendly and the muzzle blast not too obnoxious.. I think my youngest son shot his first hog sitting on my lap in the deer blind to be high enough to get a good rest...about 9ish? My oldest son shot his first deer at about 11 with me in the stand with him. We started dove hunting using 20 ga about 10 I think, after thy showed good situation awareness of handling the shot gun in the field around other hunters and dogs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ronald W Schaefer, post: 1898008, member: 109378"] It depends on their maturity, physicality and interest. There are some 13 y/o I wouldn't want on the range with me, let alone handling firearms. My boys both started shooting .22 LR about 6 and went hunting/shooting with me often to watch. I waited for them to get behind the stock when they really, really wanted to do it, I felt their attention span, interest was sufficient and they demonstrated understanding of the rules. We talked about safety and did a lot of dry fire and handling exercises and did the demonstrations of effect on watermelons and waterfilled filled milk jugs (IRL its not like the cartoons). They traded up to centerfire when they showed enough body size to confidently handle the little Browning A-Bolt Micro-Medallion youth rife in 7mm-08 I won at a Ducks' unlimited event. FYI they've killed over 70 head of game with it, all one shot DRT kills. I still have that rifle for the grand kids someday. We always wore ear protection and practiced shooting off the bench and the sticks. They both started off with padded vests even though the '08 was pretty recoil friendly and the muzzle blast not too obnoxious.. I think my youngest son shot his first hog sitting on my lap in the deer blind to be high enough to get a good rest...about 9ish? My oldest son shot his first deer at about 11 with me in the stand with him. We started dove hunting using 20 ga about 10 I think, after thy showed good situation awareness of handling the shot gun in the field around other hunters and dogs. [/QUOTE]
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