Daughter Gets New Rifle

[The Surgeons Ghost]

I passed down my Remington 581 .22LR to my daughter yesterday. We were out at the range and I surprised her with it. She had a blast with the gun and was shooting 100 yard targets. She did really well, never missed once. I am so proud of her.

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[JohnP123]

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Looks like a great day to me i remember taking my girls out to shoot the first time.

 

[Paulus]

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Ok, this is just cool. First, awesome to see young ones get into this sport and really like it. keeps the sport alive and makes for adults who protect the 2nd amendment.

Second, enjoy the father daughter time, few things are as precious. third, looks like a great time at the range in general. pretty range and pretty day to turn powder into noise!

Paulus

 

[eddieo]

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My boy got my Brno .22lr and he loves it .

As was said enjoy the father /daughter time . Soon enough you will be one of those dads that decides to clean all his guns every time she brings home a young lad . Lol

 

[sictransitjosh]

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Damn I'd love to have a field like that to shoot at whenever I want. I remember I was like 10 when I got my first remington .223 junior rifle. Loved it.

 

[Accusource8541]

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How old is your daughter? My daughter is 7 and I am trying to figure out what age would be a good age for her to start shooting my .22LR.

 

[Switchblade]

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My forst rifle that I bought and paid for with earned money is my 581 Remington. Had to replace a firing pin in it, and repair a trigger spring and it still shoots minute of Coor's Can Banquet Label at 100 paces

 

[GUNNER75]

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That is what its about......Thanks for sharing.

Wade

 

[pyplynr]

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Awesome! Can't wait to get my niece shooting. When your out shooting, don't shoot at a big yellow trackhoe, it might be me

We're putting in a pipeline in between Geary and Calumet.

 

[FALex]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Accusource8541</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How old is your daughter? My daughter is 7 and I am trying to figure out what age would be a good age for her to start shooting my .22LR. </div></div>

Funny you say that...I was talking to friends yesterday in an attempt to persuade myself that my 3 year-old daughter could probably start around 4? LOL!!! When I'm out in the garage doing some loading, she'll come out, run over, and say, "I shoot daddy guns?" That is, of course, her way of asking. I just try to capture that enthusiasm everytime, and tell her it won't be long, but in my mind I think, "maybe in another 3 years?" I just had a baby boy at 2:00am on St. Patty's Day (can you imagine his 21st birthday?)...I am hoping he and his older sister will be schooling their old dad when it's time.

Surgeon - looks like a great time. Beautiful area.

 

[Switchblade]

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Our boys both coldn't wait for Birthday number 8. I guess since my Pop was a kid, that was the magic number for the first 'given' rifle...which was usually a BB gun. Once the fundamentals were pretty well mastered for safe shooting habit and solid position, natural POA, well you know, then the thinking of what to get for Birthday number 10 would come up about six months after 9. From 8-9 trips to the range would be normal, and they would shoot real stuff, but not their own. AT 10, No2 got his Savage .22, and No3 got his Ruger 10/22. One hits one at a time dead center, the other hits them all rapid fire(orange small clays at 50M & 100M)

 

[The Surgeons Ghost]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Accusource8541</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How old is your daughter? My daughter is 7 and I am trying to figure out what age would be a good age for her to start shooting my .22LR. </div></div>

She is 10 right now. I have always let her work at her own pace. When she felt she was ready to move up I let her go ahead. You can buy a gun early like I did, but you need to realize the gun may set in the safe for awhile. But she will get to when she is ready. The recoil does bother them a bit, but what I have found that it is mostly the noise. It seems that girls tend to have very sensitive ears, so even with hearing protection they tend to be bothered.

She has been shooting a chopped down Daisy Red Ryder since about 4. Maybe a few years she will want to get on dads Surgeon. We'll see.

 

[The Surgeons Ghost]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pyplynr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Awesome! Can't wait to get my niece shooting. When your out shooting, don't shoot at a big yellow trackhoe, it might be me

We're putting in a pipeline in between Geary and Calumet. </div></div>

Where at. We are north east of Geary about 12 miles, over by Ice Bridge.

 

[The Surgeons Ghost]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: The_Surgeon</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Accusource8541</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How old is your daughter? My daughter is 7 and I am trying to figure out what age would be a good age for her to start shooting my .22LR. </div></div>

She is 10 right now. I have always let her work at her own pace. When she felt she was ready to move up I let her go ahead. You can buy a gun early like I did, but you need to realize the gun may set in the safe for awhile. But she will get to when she is ready. The recoil does bother them a bit, but what I have found that it is mostly the noise. It seems that girls tend to have very sensitive ears, so even with hearing protection they tend to be bothered.

She has been shooting a chopped down Daisy Red Ryder since about 4. Maybe a few years she will want to get on dads Surgeon. We'll see. </div></div>

The girls, especially mine, really like the bench and prone position. A full size 22 is still a bit on the heavy side for them. I thought about buying a Crickett but decided not to because of her out growing it and then it would just sit.

I need to build her a bench that is better for her height. The bench pictured above is just a bit to tall for her. She likes the prone position best of all. The camera went dead before we could get a pic of her in that position.

 

[pyplynr]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: The_Surgeon</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pyplynr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Awesome! Can't wait to get my niece shooting. When your out shooting, don't shoot at a big yellow trackhoe, it might be me

We're putting in a pipeline in between Geary and Calumet. </div></div>

Where at. We are north east of Geary about 12 miles, over by Ice Bridge. </div></div>

We're doing a 20" line a mile north of Geary at that compressor station by where the train derailed. We cross 270 five miles east of Geary and going toward Maple school.

 

[The Surgeons Ghost]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pyplynr</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: The_Surgeon</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pyplynr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Awesome! Can't wait to get my niece shooting. When your out shooting, don't shoot at a big yellow trackhoe, it might be me

We're putting in a pipeline in between Geary and Calumet. </div></div>

Where at. We are north east of Geary about 12 miles, over by Ice Bridge. </div></div>

We're doing a 20" line a mile north of Geary at that compressor station by where the train derailed. We cross 270 five miles east of Geary and going toward Maple school. </div></div>

I know exactly where you are at. You'll be coming in just south of my place, about a mile or so, I figure. A lot of oil rigs are up in that area. They just put a water pool for the rigs just south of our farm. I was out there Saturday and they had not yet began to bring water in yet. Last week they had a rig up on the back side of our place, just over the fence on Prichetts place. Saturday they had it moved over to Neeley's, which is about a 1/4 mile south of the house.

My grandmother went to that school back in the day.

 

[Roddd]

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This is a day BOTH of you will remember as long as you live. Wait until you see her win her first comp, then you'll really be beside yourself.

 

[The Surgeons Ghost]

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If that is the direction she wants to go in, I sure will support her. My buddy and I were joking the other day about her steeling my Surgeon when she gets older. When she gets old enough to drive, I'll come home one day to find my Surgeon Scalpel missing. Come to find out, my daughter has it out at the farm deer hunting or busting targets at a grand. Lil' Fart! I am waiting till she gets older and decides if this is the direction she wishes to go in. At that time she should know what she likes and dislikes in a rifle. She should know what caliber she wants also. At that time, I have an old Remington 700, I will take it and have her a custom rifle built just as she wants. I am kinda hoping that she picks something in the 6mm's or 6.5's. Knowing her, she will probably be like dad and go with the old 308 win.

 

[The Surgeons Ghost]

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She ever gets on my Surgeon, I am going to play hell trying to keep her off of it. I have it set up for a very low recoil for my shoulder problem. It kicks less than a 223, or it seems to. She gets behind that gun and I may be building her a custom gun off of that Rem 700 action sooner than I thought.

Oh well, I would rather spend the money on an expensive rifle than to have her running around and getting into trouble with boys or dugs. My dad always told me, "if you can keep then interested in the outdoors, hunting, and fishing, you'll never have to worry about them". Worked for me while I was growing up. So far it seems to be working for my daughter as well.


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[MJBmxz]

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Great to see kids shoot for the first time. The smile they have when they hit their fist target is just amazing! I remember how excited I was.

 

[THE MGD]

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Looks like she had a great teacher.

Take care.

 

[KYpatriot]

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Well done. It is very important for fathers to spend time with their daughters, and even more important to teach them activities that improve their confidence and sense of self worth that is under constant attack from today's popular media.

Having competence with firearms is a basic skill, like swimming, that every human being should have. I think it especially important for women, perhaps even more so than men, especially in today's world.

Good work.

 

[MikeeBooshay]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: The_Surgeon</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> "if you can keep then interested in the outdoors, hunting, and fishing, you'll never have to worry about them". </div></div>

Around our little corner of LA, our sheriff gives out bumper stickers :
"Parents that hunt and fish with their kids,
Don't have to hunt for their kids."

And it is so true.

 

[Cornholeo]

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Awesome to see dads and their children out shooting together. I took my son out yesterday and spent several hours at the range, just can't beat it. I started him out at 6 with a Chipmunk .22 rifle that he still has. It will be his son's one day I hope.

Enjoy!