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Shooting & gun size/power with kids?
I remember duck hunting around 6 yrs old with a .410 and progressing upward in gun size as I grew physically & skillwise. |
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It really depends on the kid, I've seen 50 year old men I wouldn't trust with a BB gun!!!!!!!!!!!
My 2 started with BB guns at about age 5. I think??????? |
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Double on the 5.......
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i was 6 when i started shooting a 20 guage... i think i got a .410 when i was 4 or 5.... cant remember... been shooting a 12 since i was 8
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I was 6 or 7 when dad got me a winchester pump 20 gauge, ruger 10/22 of my very own not long after. getting that .22 was the best christmas morning ever
i was shooting a sheridan silver streak younger than that, most of the time Dad would supervise, but that's what he taught me gun safety with. |
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Pellet gun at around 4 or 5...410 when i was in the first grade.
20 gauge in 3rd grade. |
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But Jordan.....@ six years old you were probably the size of most 10 year old kids.
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My son is 5 years old, got him the red rider when he turned 4. He learned to shoot the open sights quick, taught him safety with it also. It has a safety and you have to **** it, only when he is ready to shoot. Getting him the .410 this christmas, he will be 6 by then, I'm thinking old enough to handle recoil and noise.
Also don't know if you deer hunt also, but I bought a .17 HMR with a scope on it, to teach him to shoot with a rifle and look through a scope, no recoil and not too loud. These kids learn quick, he was nailing bullseye by the 5 th round. Now I will just progress up in caliber as he gets older and stronger, probably a .223, he has the scope thing down pat. Just the way I did it, he has not been intimidated once, hope this helps, Good Luck! |
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if the wife is giving you hell about it get him a slingshot
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My first gun was a crack barrel .410/.22 over and under that my grand mother
gave me. I still have that gun. I shot it one year in the first grade, then my day bought me a Western Auto .410 pump. I think it is a Revelation brand. The stock was cut to fit me and I still have it too. Then in the 5th grade, I graduated to a 12 ga. Winchester pump that my dad got from someon who owed him money. That was in the last days of paper shotgun shells. I loaned that gun to my sister and her son and Hurricane Rita took it along with their house. |
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Thanks for everyone's input! |
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My little boy is five and Santa bought him a red rider last year he was 4. My gun nut neighbor cut the stock for him and he shoots it pretty good. He also has a slingshot that he shoots and is pretty good with it also. Ill probably get him a youth model .20 gauge next year.
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