Took my girl shooting for the first time.

nice groupings.

Looks like she's got good sight-picture (fuzzy target, clear front sight post). But the up-and-left pattern suggests she's anticipating a little. 

Very nice.  I've got a .22 marlin too and my kids love shooting it.  Heck, I love shooting it too. 

Cool!  But with one critique...

Call me a hippie.  Call me new-agey.  Call me a looney liberal.  But I'm not a fan of firing at human-silhouette targets.  I don't like putting the energy out there that you're firing at a human being.  Even if you're training for it, you never actually WANT to be in the situation where you actually do it.  So don't put that energy out there!  Especially for a child.  I fire at standard circular targets.  Work just as well without the negative energy.

And I do see the standard rifle diamond-grid target... but it was stapled up against a human silhouette.

OK.  Said and done.  Back to the CONGRATS on your daughter being a fine shot!

I thought about that after but I wasn't too worried about it since she knew she was shooting at the target and not the human silhouette. I need the length of the target so she isn't shooting up but the next time out I can just turn the paper around so thanks for the idea.

After we did talk about if she would be up to the task of killing zombies and she said yes

Can't you tell the difference between a human silhouette and a zombie.

I guess this is out too?

Mozambique or Mogadishu?

Winning hearts and minds...2 in the heart, 1 in the mind?

Just remembered I had a video of my 13 year old daughter shooting my .40 for the first time.  I just uploaded it to youtube.  For the first few shots I just put one round in and was ready to catch a flying handgun, but she did really well.  This video is of her first full magazine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tircoKOWh_s

And to get the controversy out of the way up front.  I am most certainly not a Hippie, New Agie, or a loony liberal so she was shooting at a silhouette.  Don't read into it, I actually have never given any thought whatsoever to using silhouettes or not because I feel myself and my kids are smart enough to know the difference between a piece of paper and a human.
That being said, I really like the shoot and see targets and primarily use them now.  Simply for the fact that it's a lot easier to see where you hit.

Ya the kick looked bad but she was dead on. Congrats! Do you love it when they look over at you with that big smile?

Funny thing about the video is that you can see that the first few shots were dead center because they surprised her.  When she started anticipating, it either went up and left or down and right (trigger jerk instead of trigger squeeze). 

Good drill to show them they're anticipating is to take the weapon from them, unchamber the round, hand them the gun and say it's ready to fire.  They always flinch on the dry fire.  But it really teaches you to stay calm and "be surprised" by the fire.

That said, that's a great bunch of shooting there. I have about 7 years before I can take my monkeys.

^^^
THIS

"Common' baby.  You know you want to.  You know you'll like it.  Commo....  Wait.  What're those on the wa...  Oh.  Um...  Uh...  You know I can wait until whenever you're ready.  In fact...  I've got an ealry lecture tomorrow morning.  I gotta go."

LOVIN' IT!!! 

That is great!

I am going to frame the target I posted above and put it on her wall now.

Yep, i saw it too.  I have dummy rounds that I slip into the magazine that serve the same purpose.  I've also got a laser sight that I'll slip on when working with my boys.  it's easy to see the laser jump to the left or down right before they fire and sure enough the round goes right where the laser was. 

 Yea, that's no good. Looks like an apartment building behind the target...

That reminded me of the first 33 seconds of this...

"that little guy? Oh I wouldn't worry about that little guy..."

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=smo5Uyp5oKM

I like your approach just a little better.