r/canadaguns • u/-rifle-is-fine- • Apr 15 '26

Shooting My 7 year old's second time shooting.

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I bought a little Cricket for her to use with an adorable little scope. She was pretty excited to create a hole in the target lol! 20m bench

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u/dke783 Apr 15 '26

You are a good Canadian parent!

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u/-rifle-is-fine- Apr 15 '26

Haha thanks! I am going to take her to watch air pistol shooting too and see if she would be interested in joining. Get her on the road to exemption early lol!

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u/dke783 Apr 15 '26

Yesssss... get her onto cross-country skis and then she can do Olympic handgun shooting in the summer and biathlon in the winter

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u/I_Automate Apr 15 '26

Where can you watch this?

I honestly have been wanting to get more into air pistol and rifle since I can reasonably do that without a 2 hour drive to a proper range. Just having a bit of a time finding gear that is reasonably "entry level"

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u/-rifle-is-fine- Apr 15 '26

So, anybody reading this who is involved with some kind of shooting sport, training, etc. should know it is kind of hard to find groups doing structured shooting because advertisement is nearly non existent.

I stumbled upon air pistol and rifle shooting when I went to the range one evening and they were set up. Same with IPSC: "why is the range so packed today?"

Reach out to your local range, or these guys: https://www.sfc-ftc.ca/