I have an old (Remington I think) single shot 22 my sister gave me a long time ago for breaking in the grand children when they are ready. My kids were lucky. They cut their teeth on 22s, but by the time they were in Jr. High, I had them at our Police Range shooting an MP5! (It was handy being the rangemaster!) Pretty cool to be 10 to 13 years old and shoot a full auto! I still have a picture or two floating around somewhere.