I miss those days, Raden. Enjoy them to the fullest, as you never know if one day the skills she’s acquiring may lead onto a career just as Mr Brocock’s daughter has become. I have met Raden in person, and I can tell he has the demeanor to be an awesome shooting coach!
Just as others did, I started my son with a Crosman pumper shooting bb’s. I didn’t have targets at the time, so I drew cartoon images of bad guys holding someone hostage with a knife to their throat. I would whisper to my son as he took aim, about the importance of taking the bad guy out with the first shot(@ 30 feet distance).
we would go over and over this scenario till the target was all shot up and I’d have to draw another “scene”. Funny thing is not all shots hit the bad guy, as expected for a kid first learning to shoot and shooting off hand, but the 70% of the shots made to the bad guy were all POI on the genitals, and not once did I tell him to make that his POA!!! I guess it comes early on to boys, where it hurts the most, right?
Today my son is an avid duck hunter. He shows no interest in getting into the pcp hobby with me at this time, but the few times we’ve shot together he shows great potential. He can shoot with either eye/hand, and at 30 or so yards can place pellets inside of a corona bottle shot thru the neck straight into the base of the bottle that’s laid flat on the lawn- with my Beeman R10 springer!