I started my little girl out on a .22 when she was about 8, (a BSA Martini with peep sights) when she was about 25 she shot my Ruger #1 .375H&H. Last spring at our gun club game dinner I bought her a Savage .308 dressed in pink camo in the silent auction; her hubby put a scope on it, and now she out shoots her husband.
My son shot his first moose when he was 14, with an old .308 Savage lever action that he bought with his own money. Earlier that day the gun "scoped" him while sighting it in, cut his eyebrow. 2 hours later down goes a nice bull moose, one shot in the hump, broke its back, 200 meter shot. He was hooked; his is now 26, has 40 guns in his lockup.
Start 'em young, teach 'em right.
Drifter
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