My 15yo daughter shot a gun for the first time yesterday [View all]

at our local shooting range; she has prior experience with bows and airguns, but no firearms. I had her double up with good earplugs plus earmuffs, and started her on a .22LR revolver shooting CCI Quiets, then moved up to full power .22LR, then my .223 Rock River AR with a 2-6x scope. She had a good time and shot well, as did her friend and friend's mom who came along. The CCI Quiets wouldn't even knock down the steel plates on the rimfire range, so she switched to the regular .22LR after only a couple cylinders of the Quiet. Rifle targets were paper at 50 yards.

I am saving full-power rifles for later. She really likes the antique Mosin-Nagant in the safe (Finn M39), but that one is rather intimidating for a beginning shooter I think, so we're sticking with .22's only for now.