My 13 yo daughter has been joining me at every shooting match I have attened for the past year. She has shown the interest in participating in these events. Some of you have seen and met her at them. I have purchased TZ75 9mm for her to use when the time comes.
Up until yesterday, her training just consisted of learning safe gun handling, muzzle awareness and tirgger finger awareness and some dry firing in our basement. For about the past month and a half, I've had her actually moving from one shooting box to another while paying attention to the 180 degree rule and the trigger finger out of the trigger gaurd while moving rule.
Yesterday, we went to the range and started her live fire practice. We started out with the Ruger single six .22 and an IPSC target set at about 7-8 yards. After reminding her of all the safety rules I showed her how to operate the single action and shot 6 rounds for her to watch. I reloaded it and handed it to her. I asked her to simply shoot all A's (A's being the center scoring zone on an IPSC target). Six rounds later, six holes in the A zone!
She shot the single six for about 75 rounds or so. 90% of them were A's. I think she has the sight picture thing down. She asked if she could shoot "her" TZ and of course I didnt say no. She knows how to run this pistol due to the amount of dry fire time she has with it. I loaded only one round in the mag and locked the slide back. I handed it to her and told her to hold on a bit firmer than with the .22 and that it will be a bit louder and the recoil a bit stronger. She porceeded to drop the slide, dropped the safety down and squeezed off the round. Dang, another A zone hit! I took it from her and she turned and looked at me with the biggest grin and asked to shoot the TZ more. She shot it about 100 rounds and was doing very well. I didnt think the afternoon was going to be any better but she had a surprise in store for me. She ended up shooting everything I had brought to the range. My 1911 shooting 230 gr hardball, She didnt like that but she did shoot it. My Custom built Para .40, That was better than the .45 but she liked the 9mm best of all.
That was until I took the AR 15 out of the case. I had brought along a one gallon Tide jug and had that about 30 yards down range. I shot a mag through it and she asked if she could try. I loaded one round and showed her how to operate the boltand the safety. She sat at the bench and was ready. I told her that whenever she was ready she could...BANG! The kid was al set. She hit the Tide jug and sent it a little further down range! I thought the smile on her face wne she shot the 9mm was big, but that was nothing when she looked at me after shooting the AR! She was hooked. She continued to shoot the AR and knock that jug all over the range. She couldnt get enough of it! I could not believe how well she was shooting for her first time using live ammo! I was welling up with pride!
She couldnt wait to get home and call her Grandfather to let him know how she did, she was bursting at the seems while she talked to him on the phone. We have plans to head back to the range next weekend and work on the 9mm some more. I really can wait!
Thanks for having a place to be able to tell this story!
Up until yesterday, her training just consisted of learning safe gun handling, muzzle awareness and tirgger finger awareness and some dry firing in our basement. For about the past month and a half, I've had her actually moving from one shooting box to another while paying attention to the 180 degree rule and the trigger finger out of the trigger gaurd while moving rule.
Yesterday, we went to the range and started her live fire practice. We started out with the Ruger single six .22 and an IPSC target set at about 7-8 yards. After reminding her of all the safety rules I showed her how to operate the single action and shot 6 rounds for her to watch. I reloaded it and handed it to her. I asked her to simply shoot all A's (A's being the center scoring zone on an IPSC target). Six rounds later, six holes in the A zone!
She shot the single six for about 75 rounds or so. 90% of them were A's. I think she has the sight picture thing down. She asked if she could shoot "her" TZ and of course I didnt say no. She knows how to run this pistol due to the amount of dry fire time she has with it. I loaded only one round in the mag and locked the slide back. I handed it to her and told her to hold on a bit firmer than with the .22 and that it will be a bit louder and the recoil a bit stronger. She porceeded to drop the slide, dropped the safety down and squeezed off the round. Dang, another A zone hit! I took it from her and she turned and looked at me with the biggest grin and asked to shoot the TZ more. She shot it about 100 rounds and was doing very well. I didnt think the afternoon was going to be any better but she had a surprise in store for me. She ended up shooting everything I had brought to the range. My 1911 shooting 230 gr hardball, She didnt like that but she did shoot it. My Custom built Para .40, That was better than the .45 but she liked the 9mm best of all.
That was until I took the AR 15 out of the case. I had brought along a one gallon Tide jug and had that about 30 yards down range. I shot a mag through it and she asked if she could try. I loaded one round and showed her how to operate the boltand the safety. She sat at the bench and was ready. I told her that whenever she was ready she could...BANG! The kid was al set. She hit the Tide jug and sent it a little further down range! I thought the smile on her face wne she shot the 9mm was big, but that was nothing when she looked at me after shooting the AR! She was hooked. She continued to shoot the AR and knock that jug all over the range. She couldnt get enough of it! I could not believe how well she was shooting for her first time using live ammo! I was welling up with pride!
She couldnt wait to get home and call her Grandfather to let him know how she did, she was bursting at the seems while she talked to him on the phone. We have plans to head back to the range next weekend and work on the 9mm some more. I really can wait!
Thanks for having a place to be able to tell this story!
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