When did you teach your kids to shoot?

Cricket at the age of 7. He shot BB guns before that (Daisy buck). He's 11 now and his favorite to shoot are 9mm pistols.

.22 at age 6. 30-30 at 10. lots of practice and gun safety sessions with both. killed a deer on his first solo hunt. proudest memory of my life!

We just started this past season at 4 with a BB gun. Will continue this into next season with mixing in cricket 22 and .410 sparingly.
We can shoot BB everyday in yard for fundamental leaning and save the bigger guns for weekend shooting.

Start them with a BB gun as early as possible. Being able to see the BB go out of the gun teaches you a lot about trajectories and such.

My brothers kid got started with a BB gun at 3 or so and he is 11 now and super comfortable/safe with guns. Quick to shoulder and aquire target, crack shot. My sisters kids werent allowed to shoot until they were 9 or 10 and they still look kind of awkward 5 years later. True, They don't get to shoot as much but my point is kid your kid used to the mechanics as early as possible.

My girls started at 3 or so with BB guns. They’re now older and kill stuff with full sized guns.

My son is 18 months and we’ve started shooting deer on the wall with nerf guns. He’s pretty deadly inside 12 feet.

My son had a BB gun around 7 then I got him a youth .22 at 8/9.

My son has a small disability that effects his arm and holding it though so I had to wait longer to get him one.

When the showed enough interest and I felt they could do it safely. Started with .22 rifle. No recoil and is safe. Can grab/ block if they start to swing it in unsafe direction.
Next 22 pistol.
Make sure they can take kick before do bigger rifle or shotgun. Have known a few kids I reduced to shotgun to early shot once and said nope would not do again. Don’t do shotgun at target. Use can , bottle or skeet. Something that they are more worried about did they hit it than how much it hurt.

My girls were never interested in shooting when they were young. But now I have grandsons and they love to shoot. I always wanted a nice pellet gun, so I started them off with that at around 4.

I prefer the pellet gun because the rifled barrel and pellet make it more accurate than a bb gun. Started with iron sights but they were already struggling with the size of the gun. So most of their shooting has been off of a rest with a scope. Besides accuracy, the other issue with the bb gun was ricochets. And even though they could handle a Daisy a lot easier, I really wasn't interested in turning them loose with any gun at that age.

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