watch a 13yo girl shoot 3-gun

[tuj]

watch out, she's pretty good!

http://www.breachbangclear.com/site...watch-this-little-girl-shoot-like-a-boss.html

 

[Skribs]

For those of you who say I need to find cover and try doing it with people shooting back......I am 13 and this is a competition. For those (few) of you who think I should be playing with barbies instead of guns and who think this type of sport will make me a bad person. I play on several sports teams at my school. I also make straight A's. I am a girly girl (notice the finger nail polish). I have been shooting since I was 5 and do not play video games. Not that I dont like them, I would rather shoot real guns than fake ones. i have never had any professional training except from my dad and a couple of his buddies.

Quote from her posted on the link. I will say that the advantage of video games over real-life shooting is I can buy a video game for $40 and then get all the guns in it and ammo is free, whereas in real life you buy a gun for hundreds or thousands of dollars and then spend $40 for less than an hour on the range.

On a more serious note, this is exactly why I say kids need to be legally allowed access to guns. Yes, if they're underage, then their parents are responsible (for purchasing, storage, etc) and it's up to their parents whether or not they have access to them. However, this girl obviously is trained well enough to not have an accident playing with Daddy's gun. On the other hand, if someone breaks into her house while she is home alone, she would greatly benefit from having access to Daddy's guns.

I haven't done 3-gun before, is a full-auto gun common?

 

[tuj]

I don't do 3-gun either, but I don't believe full auto is common at all. May have just been a special thing for that day. It kind of looked like a 'special' stage with those pumpkins.

She shoots a shotgun better than I do! Her pistol work wasn't bad either. And most importantly, she was SAFE the entire time and didn't do anything stupid/dangerous.

 

[Sam1911]

I haven't done 3-gun before, is a full-auto gun common?

Not terribly common. And usually done with a "pickup gun" -- something someone brought out to share with all the competitors for the day.

My 11 year old daughter got to run an Uzi in our shoot house at one of our matches last year, the same way.

 

[tekarra]

Have seen this a few times, still a good watch.

 

[Skribs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBpcSaGl-oA

Was looking this up on youtube to post a link somewhere else, and I found an interview with her (posted in 3 parts, I linked to part 1 in this post, parts 2 and 3 can be found in the subsequent suggestions). At 13 she has more common sense than a large amount of our elected officials.

 

[WestKentucky]

Great to see youngsters getting into the shooting sports. And as far as a 13year old having more sense than politicians...that's like saying Mcdonalds sells more burgers than your local truckstop, hell my 2 year old puddy-tat can make that claim...give her some real credit.

 

[stressed]

Pretty cool. I remember seeing an old black and white WWII film with young girls in the Hitler Youth firing K98k's going through various courses and disassembling other weapons. Don't think they do that in the girl scouts of today.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

This is why blanket laws prohibiting young shooters from having guns are ridiculous. That young lady is not likely to point a gun at anyone let alone go on a shooting spree just because she shoots guns in competition.

She is going to be very big in the shooting games a few years from now.

 

[gym]

Kid is a future world champion

 

[Skribs]

This is why blanket laws prohibiting young shooters from having guns are ridiculous. That young lady is not likely to point a gun at anyone let alone go on a shooting spree just because she shoots guns in competition.

This, and all the kids who actually do use a firearm to defend their home when home alone during a break-in.

 

[Thermactor]

some skill right there - remind me not to think lightly of missouri ladies from here on out!

 

[LKLive13]

That's great that kids that young are in the sport! I wish I could get my 7 year old interested in shooting... she says they kick too much...lol

 

[230RN]

^ Sure. You never start someone out with a center fire. Katie's Dad started her out with a .22, and she said she didn't like it and bugged her dad to let her shoot bigger guns.

Also, I found, a lot of times it's not so much the actual "kick" that bothers newbies, it's the noise, but they tie that in with the recoil. Make sure they have adequate hearing protection. Start them out with both plugs and muffs. And, for the ladies, bear in mind that things like hair and earrings sometimes allow the shock wave to get past the "protection."

If there's anything I can't stand, it's jokers who start someone out with heavy-recoiling firearms and get all haw-haw and knee-slappy about the newbie "victim's" reaction to the shot.

Terry, 230RN

 

[Skribs]

I think a lot of it is perspective, too. My Mom can handle the smallest centerfire cartridges in whatever platform she's looking at, i.e. .38 special instead of .357 magnum in a revolver or 9mm instead of .40 S&W. My sister didn't want to try my shotgun with low recoil loads until she saw my brother-in-law and I shooting 3.5" magnum shells. I'll never forget when she tapped me on the shoulder and said, "I'll try it if you put the wimpy ones back in."

That said, I agree that doing that on purpose is a bad way to get people involved. But all but one person that I've gotten interested in shooting has started off with centerfire.

 

[Sam1911]

Some platforms and combinations are better than others for learning, but it is all up to the kid, really.


By seven, my daughter wanted to shoot the .44, but obviously Magnums would have been insane. My IDPA .44 Spc. loads suited her just fine, and that was her favorite handgun until she discovered the xDM 9.