Thanks for the advice... my husband did try to explain that she wouldn't feel it when she shot at a deer. It didn't work. That's okay though. I think she was still a year too young to fully grasp the concept of aiming. The first time we went to shoot, she was using open sights because we didn't think we could drill the barrell for a scope. We took it to a gun shop and they said absolutely they could, so we went ahead and had it drilled and mounted my scope from my muzzleloader. She would have been fine if the scope would have been on the first time she went to shoot, then she could have just taken hunter safety and gone out... that's okay, it's her decision anyway, not ours.

I know it's just a matter of time, but she is getting into cheerleading this year (I wanted so badly to persuade her to play basketball instead... but that was a no-go too), so I am hoping the cheerleading won't outweigh her desire to hunt.... such as life if it does, I still have a 4 1/2 year old boy and another girl on the way... I *know* my son will hunt.