[MaxMax]

Here is pic during training an Eight year old to shoot and properly handle a firearm.
This is a DPMS Panther A4 5.56 with a .22 conversion kit installed.
She hit ten of ten rounds on a rifle target at fifty yards first time out.

The most exciting thing about learning is hitting the target the first time out.
It's how I convert those who don't shoot, into loving guns. And it works.

Use bird shot with limited kick and out at least 50-yards. When they see that they have
hit the target the first time you've got them hooked.
They don't need to know anything about the load you put in the shotgun. /wink nod
To hot and they'll run for the hills and hate the sport.

Now my friends Eight year old wants to shoot the hot .223 load because she
was trained properly using patience and proper sight training.
Also let them dry fire a few times to get the hang of squeezing the trigger
and racking the chamber.

Good luck.

[savedbygrace]

This is why I need to get some experience with it first. I’m not loading it in the house until I can do that.

The gun store owner showed me the basic operation with a couple of dummy shells. I failed to ask him where I could buy those for operational practice.

[21twelve]

Take your wife and daughter out shooting and be prepared to be bested by both of them. The few gals that I would take out shooting were very good the first time out. My wife included.

With all adults in the house I would prefer the shotgun loaded, one in the chamber. The sound of the shotgun chambering a round only lets the bad guys know where you are. A gun is to kill, not to scare. Opinions will vary. And 00 Buck Shot is readily available and will put a bad guy down. It will also go through sheetrock walls so have a plan in place and know where your safe shooting zones are. I used to think #4 Birdshot was good, but upon further searching find out it will not penetrate to a bad guy’s vital organs - but very well might chase him off wounded. Again, the use of a firearm is to stop the threat (kill imho) - not chase off, scare, etc.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

 

 

11 year old with basically the same sort of rifle.

She started out shooting air rifles then .22s - no flinching or trigger yanking to be found.

55 gr. Winchester spire point, TAC powder, CCI primers, mil-spec brass.

Death incarnate on water-filled milk jugs.