Daughters

[JohnD13]

We taught both our daughters to shoot starting about age 5 with BB guns, and moving up as they got older. Of course back then guns weren't the "evil" thing they have become now. No one ever told them guns weren't for girls. Now our oldest at 37 doesn't shoot anymore and is not very interested, unlike our grandson, and our younger girl at 33 has trouble getting her husband to go to the range with her, because she shoots circles around him!

If you don't push the whole thing, and just let your daughter enjoy the shooting time at whatever level she wants to, eventually she may come to love it like you and your wife do. Trying to push things will get her to push back, and you'll miss out on the time you have do things with your kid, and that time is to precious to waste.

 

[Rocketgeezer]

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@ OP: Does she have her own gun yet? Not saying anything like a full AR just with pink furniture. There are plenty of kiddie-scale bolt action .22s in both short and LR that you could get her into shooting with. Some even have pink stocks.

Whats wrong with haveing the AR? my grandaughter shoots everthing I got, AR, AK, SKS, 30-30, Mosin Nagant, and all the handguns, (with supervision of course), but shes not really a girlie girl, dont care for the pick crap at all, in fact when shes old enough she wants one in camo.......

 

[sgtbill]

I started my daughter at about the age of 10 with both handguns and rifles also shotgun training. She has now been a Police Officer for the past 10 years and is the TOP SHOT in her 15 person department. Don't force her but try and get her to the range along with any other females that will go and make it a fun day. Just shooting at paper is boreing for a child, try water filled plastic bottles and ballons tied to a stick along with anything that she can see a hit that makes the target move. If it is not fun for her then she will never enjoy it. I have metal swinging targets that I start new shooters out on so that they can both see the hit and hear it.
Bill