Daughters

[mx'r]

Anyone else have a daughter that love's hangin with dad?

Today we welded up a whitewater boat frame, next she wanted to try out the pressurewasher and washed my truck and her mx bike, and then she wanted to build a spinning target. She's awesome, but makes me tired..

[DD977GM2]

Sounds like you had a great day. I love the Father/Daughter days and the bonding that happens.

Here is my Daughter who is an avid shooter and regularly hits 12x12 plate at 127 yards with all of our weapons [M2]

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[Byte Stryke]

Anyone else have a daughter that love's hangin with dad?

Today we welded up a whitewater boat frame, next she wanted to try out the pressurewasher and washed my truck and her mx bike, and then she wanted to build a spinning target. She's awesome, but makes me tired..

Like I told a friend of Mine
"Fathers day is the toughest gift you'll ever love earnin."

and you earn it every day.

[Ed_S]

Mine does too, but she's only 5.

Might change during the teenage years though?

[jmg8550]

Anyone else have a daughter that love's hangin with dad?

Today we welded up a whitewater boat frame, next she wanted to try out the pressurewasher and washed my truck and her mx bike, and then she wanted to build a spinning target. She's awesome, but makes me tired..

That's awesome, if I ever have a child and it is a girl, I would hope that she would want to hang out with her dad.

[Rooskibar03]

Good stuff. I'm looking forward to my 7 yr old learning to shoot with her old man.


Sounds like you had a great day. I love the Father/Daughter days and the bonding that happens.

Here is my Daughter who is an avid shooter and regularly hits 12x12 plate at 127 yards with all of our weapons.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

Like I told a friend of Mine
"Fathers day is the toughest gift you'll ever love too earnin." and you earn it every day.
Sorry Guy!! This does'nt come up to often! [Beer][Tooth]

[Guylee]

I love daughters too. YOUR daughters hehehe.

Just kidding, I'm a nice guy. You would be lucky to see me on your doorstep (he said with great modesty).

[vim]

Had some great times with my daughters -- still do -- and I spent today up in RMNP with one of them and my 2 granddaughters -- who also seem to like hanging with "baba." [Love2]

[sneakerd]

Ya'll are very lucky- and I'm jealous of you. I have no kids and am past the age where it is practical.[BooHoo]

[zteknik]

Ah,with the way our schedule is its hard to spend good time with the kids
I allways make it a point to leave time free for them on the weekend
My daughter is 13 now and she realy dosent have any interest in firearms-yet
Once we move out of New York state and to Colorado I think things will be different,more kids out there that are safely interested in them as opposed to the wanabe gangbangers here
Now my son-thats another story,hes 6 and keeps hounding me for range time[Tooth]

[DSB OUTDOORS]

Ya'll are very lucky- and I'm jealous of you. I have no kids and am past the age where it is practical.[BooHoo]
^^^^^^ And YOU give me Sh*t!!! Welcome to the no TRIM factor!!! [Tooth][Beer] I'm 40 I just have to find a gal that can put up with my Sh*t and Oh HELL There will be a lot of Little DSB's running around!! [LOL]

[Byte Stryke]

Its Never too late...
Little Byte was born when I was 40

Why yes, I am a dirty old man.

[4gunfun]

hey op you are blessed. My boys are great and easy but my daughter married a crack head jail bird [Cry][Hang]

[bryjcom]

My daughter wears me out but always at the end of the day she manages to make me stare at her and realize how lucky I am to have that little crazy girl.

When she's old enough she'll be shooting and hunting with her old man........

[Troublco]

My daughter loves going shooting with me, or helping me process a deer, or fishing...always something we can do when I'm at home!

[Irving]

I feel bad when I don't give my daughter the time and attention that she deserves. I love hanging out with her with just the two of us.

[Chad4000]

I can totally see what you guys mean. Although I have a son,,, I can't imagine not doing this stuff with him

[stenz]

hey op you are blessed. My boys are great and easy but my daughter married a crack head jail bird [Cry][Hang]

WTF... you need to beat his ass and straighten her out.

[970TJ]

I have two little girls that are 3 and 4. Daddy daughter days are the best.

[Mtn.man]

Mines mean.

[Shodown]

My daughter is only 10 months old, but I cant freakin' wait til she's old enough to ride dirt bikes, shoot guns and work on my Camaro with me.

[JoeT]

my daughters are 8 and 9... this week my 9 year old and I did 4 oil changes and a brake job in the garage.

and my 8 year old and I just built another lower. having little fingers around makes it easier

[hollohas]

My girl will be 2 next month. She is a major Daddy's girl and I love every second of it much to my wife's chagrin (she wants a Mommy's girl). She loves to hike and fish with me and shooting is not too far away... :D

[Ronin13]

I don't have kids... yet, but it does remind me of how an open mind improved a daughters life. See I used to date a girl who's father was a retired USMC Master Gunny, he was very protective of his daughter and had one of those unique daddy-daughter relationships, he always referred to her as "Daddy's little angel" even at the age of 24. Young fmr. Army CPL Ronin steps into the scene and Daddy meets his angel's new boyfriend. Of course he gave me hell because I didn't go into the Marines (understandable) but once he found out that I took his daughter shooting, taught her some of the newer and more updated tactics that daddy didn't know he immediately accepted me and thought I was the greatest boyfriend she's ever had... "Sure glad my little angel isn't dating one of those free-spirit, veggie eating, gun hating, hippie liberals!" I really wish me and her had worked out, that would have been an awesome father in law!
Sorry for the long story, but I'm sure a lot of you fathers out there would enjoy that story. Give those girls your love every time you can, treat them like a princess and don't let them settle for anything less than a man to take them off your hands and do the same.

[Mobat555]

Mine is 6 and enjoys doing the stuff that Dad does.

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[RMGOdirector]

My 9 year old is a hardcore freedom advocate, and has been since she could speak. She'll hang out with me no matter what I'm doing, and ask "Can we do that some more?" every time.

Every time I get a new firearm, I always take a photo with Libby holding it.

We homeschooled Libby until recently, so she drank our Kool-Aid hard.

And though she's a pretty little gal and has princess tendencies, she's an outdoorsman as well.

Case in point: my church has a big Father/Daughter (and Grandfather/Granddaughter) campout every summer. It happens up at 9200 ft elevation, near Gould, west of Cameron Pass.

It's 3-4 days of camping, firemaking, ATV riding, rope tying, fishing, archery, log sawing, Bible studying, praising God (under a canopy of blue sky and incredible stars) and, you guessed it, lots of guns.

My daughter can't get enough of it. I have to block out that campout on my schedule every year, right away, and nothing is allowed to touch the dates.

We return home muddy, tired, sunburned, and with huge smiles on our faces. And a bond that is tough to break.

(Oh, yeah: we do the same with our boys toward the end of the summer, but it's darn unique with the girls).

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Dr. Meg Meeker is a good reference book for what this kind of activity does with our kids.