Re: Life at age 11
guess I was lucky as a kid, with a WHOLE family in LE, my dad was a "gun nut", etc... by 11yo I'd been shooting centerfire w/ them for years, and was on a shooting team for my uncle's dept, that he coached, I'd started for the team w/ air rifle at 9yo, went to smallbore at 10yo....
now my daughter is 11yo this year and has her own 22s (one rifle, one pistol) and she gets to shoot them w/ suppressors.
come to think of it, that's kinda a tradition too... I was around that age when I first got to shoot anything w/ a happy switch.