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What age do you think kids should start shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="MontanaJack" data-source="post: 2764665" data-attributes="member: 25389"><p>Depends on the child's physical and cognitive abilities. I was 4 or 5 when my dad started teaching me how to use open sights. He set up his Mod 92 Win 20-20 using a box to hold the rifle stationary, pointed to a box across the living room He made a black round dot about 2" in diameter with a handle. I learned to yell stop when the dot was in the sight picture and he would mark the center of the dot on a white paper taped to the target box. After 3 "shots" he would draw a triangle using the 3 dots. We took turns with mom's help. I even got a smaller triangles than my dad sometimes. Later, dad coached me how to squeeze a trigger with controlled breathing, dry firing only. I got to fire live rounds at the range when I was big enough to aim dad's 22LR, laying prone with a front rest at about 6 years old. Lot's of instruction and practice before shooting live ammunition. My boys started shooting similarly, at about 7 or 8. Some of my grand children started young and others didn't care to learn until they were in their teens. The child needs interest and cognition to understand safety and have the discipline to understand and conform to the rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MontanaJack, post: 2764665, member: 25389"] Depends on the child’s physical and cognitive abilities. I was 4 or 5 when my dad started teaching me how to use open sights. He set up his Mod 92 Win 20-20 using a box to hold the rifle stationary, pointed to a box across the living room He made a black round dot about 2” in diameter with a handle. I learned to yell stop when the dot was in the sight picture and he would mark the center of the dot on a white paper taped to the target box. After 3 “shots” he would draw a triangle using the 3 dots. We took turns with mom’s help. I even got a smaller triangles than my dad sometimes. Later, dad coached me how to squeeze a trigger with controlled breathing, dry firing only. I got to fire live rounds at the range when I was big enough to aim dad’s 22LR, laying prone with a front rest at about 6 years old. Lot’s of instruction and practice before shooting live ammunition. My boys started shooting similarly, at about 7 or 8. Some of my grand children started young and others didn’t care to learn until they were in their teens. The child needs interest and cognition to understand safety and have the discipline to understand and conform to the rules. [/QUOTE]
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