My daughter (almost 13) has been shooting my KJW M700 once in a while the past few years in my basement (bipod on bench rest) shooting bottle caps at 30ft (
) and loves it. But have gotten her (I'd say peer pressure, but not sure the correct word for a parent pressuring the child to shoot guns if they don't want to............. "Aw, c'mon!!!!!! You'll LIKE it!!!!!") to shoot my MP5 and she always claimed it was too heavy for her (wah!) but I did get her to do some advancing while shooting and reloading at the Foxden in 2006 on an aluminum foil oven liner at 100ft away, and she seemed to enjoy it. Now I see what yo uare doing with your son, I might get one for my daughter (and my son when he's old enough, he's almost 5). Would be pretty cool for me, and maybe more motivating for them (ok, her anyways, he LOVES airsoft guns, and for a few nights before bed I'd cock and give him my magless Crosman P99 and showed him how to clear the bedrooms upstairs of "Tangos", all closets, behind doors, under the bed, the bathroom.................. imagine my surprise when he shot one of th efuckers in the toilet, hiding under the lid.............. one place I wouldn't have even checked! He was 3 at the time. Lol!!!!!)