Sniper4Life,
Seriously, pay attention to Old Fuff and others in regard to the quality Air Guns.
WE all understand wanting to shoot a "real gun" with "real ammo", we really do.
Just at this point in life - Mom's house, Mom's rules.
That is just the way it is, and someday it will be Sniper4Life's house and your rules and you will slap your head, yell out in angst :
"Oh NO! I sound like Mom and other adults now!"
Called life. It is okay.
These RWS, and other Quality Air guns, are really that good!
Old Fuff and others nailed it with price of ammunition allowing for more quality practice.
I assist new folks with shotguns for instance.
Dead Serious here.
I share correct basics, starting with gun fit, correct stance, mounting gun to face and everything.
At home, in garages, spare bedrooms, out back on the property, in barns...
NO Ammo.
Gun TRiple checked.
4 Rules of Safety.
Folks from young girls and boys , teenage boys and girls, to ladies and gents, doing Repetitions of correctly mounting gun to face every day if can, still most days of the week.
Instilling all the correct basics over and over again, and never fire a live round.
It depends on the person, Kids I only start out at 5 every day. Adults at 25 a day.
And they work up for instance the adults doing 100 a day.
Serious shotgunners will do these Repetitions, at least 100 times a day, many will do 2, 3, 4 and I was doing 500 a day sometimes when I was getting ready for some serious shotgunning.
No ammo, just quality repetition of correct basics.
It also builds staimina.
Take a teenager, male or female, that is doing 50 repetitions a day, has not fired a shotgun in a week, and I assure you, that person can shoot a shotgun better than someone using live ammo and just "blasting" with a gun that does not fit, using in correct form and all.
Not just shotguns
Name any shooting discipline and the better shooters do a LOT of dryfire practice.