too young?
04-26-2005, 02:57 PM
#11
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WI
Posts: 806
RE: too young?
I think I started actually shooting a gun around 8 or 9 and recieved my first gun for christmas when i was 9 (bb). But i had asked for it so I dont know when my dad would have bought me one otherwise. I've always been interested in guns though.
But raise your kid however you see fit.
But raise your kid however you see fit.
04-26-2005, 04:01 PM
#12
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: winchendon mass
Posts: 411
RE: too young?
well i started shooting pellet guns a 5 and acutaly no lie was shooting my 12ga at 10yrs old (i am a big kid being 6"1 and 180 lbs now at 14) (was about 5"9 and 130lns then) so if u stay with her and keep here interested she should be ok just teach her stuff
04-26-2005, 05:10 PM
#13
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: The forests and farmland of Ohio
Posts: 625
RE: too young?
i didn't start shootin till about the time i was 10 but my neighbor started his daughter out with a bb gun for her 5th birthday it was a Buck by daisy and the stock was a little big but he holds it up for her and she pulls the trigger
04-30-2005, 08:56 PM
#18
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location:
Posts: 1,063
RE: too young?
I started shooting my bow at age 4, and by 6 i started to shoot BB guns. I grew up around guns at my house and i was always watching my brother/dad shoot. It was just a natural progression. I got my BB gun on my 6th birthday and i was shooting a single compound bow from 4 on up.
It is a personal decision though, but when you decide the time is right you'll have to spend a lot of time going over all the saftey precautions with your son. Even if they seem obvious, continue to go over them until he knows them by heart and obides by them.
It is a personal decision though, but when you decide the time is right you'll have to spend a lot of time going over all the saftey precautions with your son. Even if they seem obvious, continue to go over them until he knows them by heart and obides by them.
05-01-2005, 07:54 PM
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Out in the Boonies of Washington USA
Posts: 294
RE: too young?
An exact age doesn't seem proper to abide by. Rather, I'd say whenever he can properly fire the bb gun and hold it on his own. I think being able to handle the gun is the most important thing. You don't want him to have a hard time holding the gun, aiming it, and then accidently shooting a window out. Does he have any toys guns? See how he handles those and I would go from there.