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RblDiver
10-21-2014, 10:52
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/living/10-year-old-competitive-shooter-irpt/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1

Good on her! I hope she continues to improve and does become the inspiration to others she hopes to be!
MarkCO
10-21-2014, 11:06
There are a bunch of them out there now, and it continues to grow. :)
newracer
10-21-2014, 13:15
There us a lot of good in that article.
DavieD55
10-21-2014, 16:24
Awesome.
beast556
10-21-2014, 17:10
That is awesome, we need to see more of this.
MarkCO
10-21-2014, 17:18
That is awesome, we need to see more of this.

NSSF Rimfire Challenge...if you don't have it at your club, ask. If you need support to get it running, ask me and I will be more than glad to meet with your range to give a presentation. I am the Match Director for the NSSF Rimfire Challenge Worlds, where of 170 competitors, 40 were female and 55 were youth. It is THE sport to bring youth and new shooters into action competition.
BigBear
10-21-2014, 20:01
Is there a way to add this to my Appleseed thing we are doing in March?... hmmm....
spyder
10-22-2014, 00:48
A little behind the times are we? ;) I've got my 10 year old daughter shooting my AR, my Benelli M3, and my P30S. This is what she is wanting to do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTM3Z1pdl5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By_u5kmvq9o
This girl is 13 I believe.
Hound
10-22-2014, 08:18
This is how I have tried to raise my kid on several issues. Take the 'taboo' factor out of it and it becomes 'just how or what is done'. It is not something to "get away with". More kids should be taught this way. It is how it used to be.
MarkCO
10-22-2014, 13:15
Katelyn was 13 in 2012 when those videos were made. She actually ran a stage at the Pro-Am as a CRO at 14. But Hound is right. Parental fear aside, I try to expose kids to a variety of things in sports, art, literature, etc. and try to help them as much as I can. Some of the female junior shooters have done more for the shooting sports in the last few years than (do not take offense) probably the entire membership of this board. Kids talking to kids and women talking to women will get more of them interested in the shooting sports which is essential for the long term health. Gun-owners (buy a .38 and stick it in a sock drawer) have proven to be pretty insignificant, but take away my hobby, my passion...now we have something else to deal with.

When we had my son's baseball team out to Novekse to work stages, most had never shot a gun, so they got quite the exposure. 2 of them are in the process of building AR15s as a result. On the converse, we did have a mother who would not even let her child touch a gun, with associated threats towards the father if it occurred.

Sorry for the soapbox, but if everyone who reads this thread takes 2 or 3 kids to the range in 2015, it will help lay the foundation into the future to "keep" our state if in fact we do get it back. Apathy will no longer cut it.
MarkCO
11-02-2014, 16:12
The girl in the original video... Should not have been in the match this weekend. Way to much for her. Dad has some issues he appears to be pushing through his daughter. She is a good kid, not her fault at all and I hope things go well for her, but her dad is not doing her any favors.
two shoes
11-02-2014, 16:51
I have to disagree with the title of this thread. Took my 5 year old out today and now I will have to share ammo... That's a bad thing with .22lr... lol