Wingshooting for kids, how did you teach/learn it?

[SwampRabbit]

Did you take them to the skeet range? Just throw clays on your property? Just let them watch you the first couple of dove seasons and then let they start on live birds?

If I owned property or had a dove lease, I'd probably just go out and throw some clays, but I don't have that option; I can only dove hunt public. It can get expensive at a skeet range, and on top of that, I'm not convinced that a range wouldn't be a somewhat frustrating venue to learn for a kiddo.

[SwampRabbit]

evening crowd?

[westtexducks]

I learned by watching my dad for a couple of seasons, a few pointers like lead the bird by so much, and then shooting a lot of shells. Took me 2 boxes to kill my first one, 2 more boxes to kill the next 5 and then just kept getting better and better the more I shot. Really hard thing for me to learn was to let them get closer before shooting at them, might be sure to point that out to him, will save him a lot of frustration.

[hully1029]

just take em and let them familiarize themselves with everything thats going on. preach preach teach teach safety. give em a gun and let them say "pow" when they think the shot is good for a bit. then start live fire.