Creed Bennett
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I was 4 when my dad let me shoot his Remington 550-1 off the hood of his 1969 Mercury Montego. I took to it like a fish to water. It’s been my crack ever since!
I was 21, with exceptions for air guns, and my wife was 5. We come from two very different backgrounds. Her grandfather was a West Point Colonel and her mother a champion rifle shooter. My father was living in Haight-Ashbury in 1969. He intensely disliked guns, violence, and anything associated. We are recently married with our first child, now 8 months old, and I just sort of assumed that 10 years sounded like a reasonable age until my wife guffawed, telling me that she was far younger. Of course we are going to gauge our son independently so my only real insistence for safety was to start with long arms first and move to pistols later. I look forward to it. Thankfully we have inherited a single shot break action .410 shotgun that should be ideal for a child when the time comes. If he's lucky, he'll inherit his mothers talent behind a trigger as well.
SteadyD asked:
What age for first time shooting a gun?
The chronological age is irrelevant.
The question turns on the maturity of the child.