Taught my daughter with Smith 22 revolver.
Once she had that down moved to a Smith 38 then a Smith 357.
Moved over to a Glock 19 then a 1911 once the mechanics were down.

I felt it important to master shot placement then mechanics of the platform then power.

Worked well for her and she was 7

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Posted by Grassy1

Member since Oct 2009

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Posted on 1/8/17 at 2:35 pm to dawg23

Thanks dawg for the advice and the concern.

If she shows any interest, I'll get her some help, much better than I can offer.

She's a pretty busy girl, (straight A student, band, clubs, etc.) If I act like this is going to be huge undertaking on the initial trip, I'm pretty sure she'll "no thanks." She had a bf for a couple months and decided that "a relationship" required too much time for her schedule.

But I got your message loud and clear. Again, thanks to you and to everyone else. They ALL helped!!

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Posted by theenemy

Member since Oct 2006

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Posted on 1/8/17 at 3:23 pm to dawg23

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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.

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.

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Posted by dawg23

Baton Rouge, La

Member since Jul 2011

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Posted on 1/8/17 at 4:23 pm to theenemy

I'm gonna guess that the 4-H program didn't start the kids on .38 caliber revolvers as their first firearm.

Everything I have posted in this thread is based on the OP's plan to teach a first time shooter how to shoot a .38 caliber handgun.

I have taught any number of kids to shoot -- and always start them on a .22 rifle. Because, no, some bad habits (like flinching) can't be fixed "really quick" on kids or anybody else.

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