Thread: First rifle for daughter

We started both our kids off with a 177 aur rifle , the least powerful we could find (and still have it too) and just had them plinking in the back garden at our house in suburbia.
Just plonked them on a chair with rifle resting on a fold out table.
Then started with the basics in firearms safety etc , pointing safe direction and so on and really drummed that into them first before we worried about them shooting live targets or being able to lift rifle. Then went to 22 bolt on a rest at range or bush and just moved up from there to our wee marlin papoose semi out hunting when we were confident they were safety conscious . Perfect rifle for them as super light and would hand it to them when time to shoot but we carried it ourselves.