It was long overdue, but my 10 yr old daughter shot her first .22 today.

I bought it for her for Christmas, but for a number of dumb reasons, we only got to shoot it for the first time yesterday.

I shot it in the day before on a target, moving the scope all the way forward and setting the eye relief to where I thought it would work for her.

I set up a three piece set of swinger targets 100' out. Large is about 3.5-4," the smallest is about the size of the lid off a gallon milk jug. The middle is in between.

It's a Savage Model 64 .22LR, semi-auto. It has a 10 round clip, but doesn't feed properly with 10. Does well with 9. I'll have to work that out sometime.

She is very small and needed something small. It has a decent 3-5 scope with illuminated reticle.

I got our first pair of electronic earmuffs for her, I still use earplugs for .22's.

Got her a set of shooting bags, all at the same time.

First, safety lessons. Rifle, safety, downrange, loaded, chambered, call for empty (Let me take the rifle for now), call for load (Let me load for now), call for chamber (Yep, I do this part for now), and a number of other things.

I helped her setup the first shot. Plink! Big target swings

She continued to pick off the target with about 20 secs or so to adjust for each shot.

After the second clip, she wanted to do it herself. Plink, plink, plink!

Try the next smaller one....Plink!

Try the smallest one...miss...again...Plink! Plink!

"Dear wife, you have to come out and see MY daughter!"

Plink, plink, plink! Oooh Yeah!

Out of 5 clips (45 shots) she hit one target or another all but 5 or 6 times!

She's shot a paintball gun a couple times before and an air rifle once before. I got her a BB gun about 2 yrs ago, but she couldn't work the pump. She is still very small.

A couple more outings and I'll cut the stock to fit her. The trigger is very stiff and I'll try lubricating it, but may have to do some additional trigger work (Yes, I have some experience on this, but not with this rifle). Not a hair trigger, but something more manageable for her.

Sooo....Yep, I'm bragging about my daughter and couldn't be more proud!

If you've got a proud first shooting with your son or daughter, feel free to post it up. Safety Patrol or nay-sayers, please just enjoy the read and don't rain on my parade Thanks!

Did I say I was proud? That's my Girl!