re: Looking to teach my teen daughter to shoot a handgun

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No offense: As I noted earlier, shooting a handgun isn't as complicated as rocket surgery. But depending on the topic, many kids take what their dad teaches them as "the gospel."

It's all too easy to embed bad habits (fundamentals, not "tactical or technical" as you put it) that can be really hard to eliminate "down the road."

The OP needs to be sure that what ever techniques he teaches her are sound.

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No offense.

But he just needs to have have fun and spend some time with her shooting. Develop an interest, then focus on technique as she wants to shoot better.

In 4-H Shooting Sports, we learned that if we let kids new to guns just have fun shooting initially while making sure they were safe we had a much higher return rate and the kids maintained more interest.

Once they showed interest they paid more attention to fundamentals and absorbed them quicker.

Instructing kids is a lot different than adults. You can fix bad habits really quick on kids so that isn't a problem, but they have to be interested enough to listen.


You spend too much time in the beginning on fundamentals and you lose them.