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Get 22 that you want, that way you will have it on hand when she does go shooting with you again.
Sage advice right there.
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Get 22 that you want, that way you will have it on hand when she does go shooting with you again.
Maybe you should just do what I did. Skip the little kid stuff and put something interesting in her hands. View attachment 278539 My 14 year old shoots a .40. Her and "my pistol Becky" as she calls it, are inseparable. She absolutely loves it. She hounds me to shoot with her every time I make it home.
It definitely depends on the person and it may be in her blood. And she does shoot a variety of weapons. The .40 is the one that got, and keeps, her interested. And she's deadly with it.Love the post - disagree with the advice.
I take a .22 pistol or rifle (depending on what I'm shooting) to switch too every now and then to keep from developing bad habbits with recoil heavy guns.
The .22 let me verify that and keeps me from getting too tense.
I can't imagine learning the fundamentals with a .40 as a grown man much less a 14 year old anything.
That's just me though.
And yes, I'm jealous as well.
Maybe you should just do what I did. Skip the little kid stuff and put something interesting in her hands. View attachment 278539 My 14 year old shoots a .40. Her and "my pistol Becky" as she calls it, are inseparable. She absolutely loves it. She hounds me to shoot with her every time I make it home.
Sometimes they just need to mature a bit. It's a tough age, don't give up on her.I wish my kid were like that. Alas, I have a dread feeling that I will never be as close with my daughter as truly I wanted to be. She's too much like I was when I was her age.
I had a somewhat tenuous relationship with my own dad.
Yup, my bad. That was a month and a half ago. Forgot.Than maybe you should reread the OP
I'm not sure I understand the bad habits part though? I've heard this before and it may be perfectly valid, but I don't get i