I took a neighbors 10 year old boy out to the gun range with my Marlin 60 auto loader in stainless and set up a pop can at 25 yards and was trying to teach him how to site and shoot. He took 4 shots and missed the pop can and decided that he would empty the gun at rapid fire and finally hit the can and so proud. I had to tell him what he did was wrong and he needed to learn to shoot and hit the can with one shot at a time. So we tried again and the same thing so I started loading one shell at a time and after 3 trys he decided that he wanted to go home it wasnt fun any more. I let my neighbor know that the boy isnt ready yet all he wants to do is play and recommended he buy his boy a bb gun.