Favorite guns to shoot with your kids

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What are your favorite guns for quality time with your kids?

For me, in terms of hours of fun, it would have to be our lowly Rossi 22 break action, which I've been shooting with my daughter for three years now. But I think these Cimarron Peacemaker Juniors in 38 special are now our favorites.

I picked them up in a trade, intending to sell or trade one and keep the other as a little sister to other single actions. When I showed them to my ten-year-old she forbade me from trading either, or else I wouldn't have one to shoot.

After a little practice, she can really make those ground targets dance (two-handed, no duelist yet:)). And I think I enjoy watching her more than shooting them myself. I have worked down a couple light loads that are consistent and have minimal recoil. (With factory loads and the smaller frame size, the felt recoil and muzzle flip is not insignificant.)
 

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Rimfires...my kids loved them and my grandkids will to, I hope. Perfect way to have fun and instill gun safety.

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Winchester Model 69A

Tinpig
 
Ruger Bearcat, Savage Cub-T, M1 Carbine, and then moving up to AKS-74 and xDM 9mm as they've gotten more into the 9-12 ranges.
 
I'm with you Tinpig! We love the rimfire guns. Single shot or semi...rifle or pistol, all fun.

Started my sons on these guns....now the grand children! (still the same guns)

Mark
 
Like most people I started my kids with a rimfire but the most fun they ever had was when I finally let them shoot my SKS. They knew the power they were holding and it was intoxicating. They loved shooting that thing. They built swinging targets and all sorts of stuff just to shoot at with that rifle. Of course I waited until they were old enough to handle a rifle like that but they can be fairly young. There is very little recoil with that rifle and if they have learned all the basics about not pointing a gun at anything you wouldn't want to shoot they can do fine. My kids were 10-12 (I waited until both my kids were old enough so there wouldn't be any jealousy or temptation to get their chance when I wasn't around). There were no problems. I don't remember the exact age. I just knew they could do it at the time. Their cousin was there too. They had more fun with that rifle than anything they ever shot. My son did get into shooting clays and doing some pistol shooting while he was in college but I wasn't there to see that. He wasn't a kid then obviously. He did borrow my guns to go shooting with his friends though. My daughter loved to shoot until she embarrassed her fiance. She hasn't wanted to shoot much since then which is a shame considering how well she shoots. She would have embarrassed most people that day. Still she looked at the situation like a lot of girls would, by caring more about not upstaging her husband in something traditionally more male than female. I tried to convince her she didn't need to worry about the situation. I offered to teach her fiance to shoot but he didn't want to be shown up again either. The only person who really had a problem with that was me I guess. My daughter is a heck of a shooter and it's a shame she doesn't pursue it. She could have gone places with her skill level. She could pick up a rifle and shoot as well as me (almost :) ) without ever practicing. If she practiced she might have been very good. But she didn't care about that. Oh well. She loves her Harleys though. She is second in command at a huge Harley dealership (nearly the biggest in the country). I see her on tv from time to time either doing commercials or interviews for the news.
 
My kids are 32 and 36 so for my daughter that would be her Glock Gen3 19 now with CTC LaserGuard. For my son, it'd be one of several with most likely being his duty Gen4 23.

Son likes his Glock 42; daughter doesn't. They each have an M&P-15 and they're always a lot of fun.

My 13yo grandson favores his mom's Glock 19.
 
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I don't have any kids,,,

I don't have any kids,,,
But I do get to borrow one every now and then.

A co-worker of mine has three sons,,,
The oldest is the one I gifted a pellet rifle to a year ago.

My friend is not a tall man at all,,,
His wife was even shorter then he is,,,
The three boys are also short in stature.

Last time I took the eldest boy to the range,,,
I had him on a bench with a Crickett at 25 yards.

I was shooting a single-shot as well,,,
A Henry Acu Bolt to be precise.

Of course the kid wanted to shoot a semi-auto,,,
I made that contingent on him hitting with the single-shot.

As I had hoped, he buckled down and took care with the Crickett,,,
When he knocked over five small tin cans with five shots,,,
I let him shoot my Beretta NEOS Carbine.

Oddly enough though,,,
After 2 magazines through the Beretta,,,
He decided on his own to go back to the Crickett.

I set up the dueling tree and we had a blast with that.

I believe that since I was using a single-shot,,,
He didn't feel "under gunned" with the Crickett.

When I take the next younger brother out,,,
I'll provide the same set-up for him.

Aarond

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We did have a lot of fun with this one, but sadly it isn't mine:

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My daughter clarified that the little Rossi is still her favorite for serious shooting, the Cimarrons for plinking :)

If I'm not careful, she out-shoots me with the .22. My alibi is the short length of pull.
 
I just started by 8 yr old daughter with the marlin 880 squirrel .22 LR rifle last August. She was so excited at the same time overwhelmed with fear . She cried but once she pulled the trigger and hit the target, she was happy . Then she stopped crying and was more focused aiming and squeezing the trigger. Kids are wonderful once they get the hanged of it.
 
Just for the record I started my kids with a Stevens 15-A single shot .22. It shoots shorts but I pretty much used LR's all the time because shorts are expensive these days and there are LR's that are about the same power level or even less in some cases. Shooting one round at a time with a gun designed for youths makes a difference. They think about each shot because there's time to think between shots. And the gun is dead accurate so if they aim it right they hit what they aim at. The trigger is decent too. It isn't too light which can be tough for a kid but it isn't a 10 lb. pull either. It's bigger than some of the kid's type guns like the Cricket but it's not hard to handle for even small kids. I helped my daughter's bf work with his daughter not long ago. We shot Colibri stuff through the Stevens. That round is not loud at all so it didn't scare that 6 year old girl. No loud bang or flash which can make a kid think twice about shooting. Dad believed in starting us at the top and it worked for us but we were crazy farm kids and not a city girl. I started with a 16 ga. shotgun shooting clays.
 
This one. My dad got this for a Christmas gift back in '59, then my brother got it. My father and brother have both passed, so now I have it. It's cool watching my 7 year old shoot this.......he loves the "sound"!

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I definitely think single shots are a good way to start, promoting focus on the mechanics, muzzle direction, etc.

It seems to me that break and bolt actions both help a kid be aware of the functioning of an autoloader (ejection, cocking, rechambering ...). When it fails, ideally, they don't twist the gun around with a confused expression on their face, but keep it pointed downrange, clear it, and complete the necessary mechanical action.

Maybe some wishful thinking there, based on limited experience. And obviously the adult would be hands-on ...
 
My grandson's first shot with a handgun was dead center bullsyse - pretty impressive even though he was using a Model 17-3 with a great trigger. Many would consider that to be cheating.
 
Favorite?

Whatever brings a smile to their face when we go out shooting!

For our youngest (13), she absolutely loves Mommy's Savage Mark II-F bolt action .22 LR. She wants a .22 of her own, but that got "shot down" this year because Mommy things it's not fair that she should get something while the other two kids didn't.

(On a side note, I told our youngest that any time she wants to shoot, she can shoot the Springfield bolt action that I was going to give her. It used to belong to my oldest brother, who got it from an uncle at 12.)


Our oldest daughter, she likes my shotguns (Remington 870 and a double barrel .410) and two of my handguns...the AMT Automag II (.22 WMR) and my Colt SAA in .45 Colt.


Our son likes my Marlin 783 .22 Magnum rifle and my Beretta 92FS.
 
For us, it is definitely my Ruger MKII 22/45. It goes on every shooting outing, along with a few rimfire rifles and whatever else we bring. Both of my daughters love that pistol. I may have to buy a couple more so they can each have one of their own.

They also really like my King Cobra, unfortunately for the girls I can't afford to pick up another one at today's prices. I do have a Colt SAA in .357 as well, so I may have to flip a coin when the time comes to hand them down.

I've already given each of them a .22 rifle, and the youngest has talked me out of a Taurus TCP as well. Her plan is to get a CWP and use it as her carry gun.

Both of my girls seem to have a lot of favorite guns. By the time they are done with me, I will be lucky if I have a gun or two left for myself! :banghead:
 
My lil guys not old enough, yet. But once he is.... I've got a 6.5" single six waiting, and probably grandpa's Marlin 60. Then plenty of bigger guns as time goes on.
 
Anything in a .22LR, particularly a 10/22, Beretta Neos, and Beretta Model 70S, and a couple of 9mm. pistols.
 
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