I decided it was time to start my daughter (my little? girl), who is 15 years old, in the shooting sports.

Rather than simply go buy her a ruger 10/22 or some semi-auto rifle, or even a bolt gun, I figured I'd make it a little more interesting "fun" for her, so I ordered a Henry .22 lever.  

Nah, not the one with the brass receiver, just the regular ol' rifle (model H001, I believe it is).

Well I picked it up tonight from the fun store (I wore my ar15.com shirt when I ordered it, and they were going to check out the site - Desiree (sp?), the owners wife, tells me she loves shooting her AR[:)])

My lord, what a piece of workmanship - the action is silky smooth!  The stock is gorgeous - a nicely grained, and finished walnut stock and matching forearm stock.  I am half tempted to make this a present for myself !

Wife and daughter won't be home from Grandma's until Wednesday, so I may take it to the range over the weekend to see how it shoots - if I do, I'll add a range report to this.

My guess is it will shoot just fine... and it should help create another female 'gun nut' [:D]

Cool!

Cool a lever action.

... you're the man!

Yeah, I know ... but that means I have to wait... [:(]  or buy another one [:)] - but I just got 'terminated' at work... lets see, the wife will understand, just on emore gun... that won't take [b]too[/b] much from the budget
AHHHHHHHGGHGGGHGHH! - no, I'll tell her I won it at the gun show, yeah, yeah, that's the ticket...

Are you going to get a scabbard?

I bought an Ithaca lever .22 for my daughter when she was 7yrs old. I carved a short buttstock out of a 2x6 for it & she just loves it!!! She takes it with her almost every time we go shooting. I'll bet your daughter will really enjoy hers too.

ColtShorty

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and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do
these things to other people and I require
the same from them."

Oh, no, then I'd have to buy the horse to hang it on [:)]

Just kidding, got no room for a horse - but if she wants a scabbard, yeah - I'll leave that up to her...

It's really odd, I trust her more with a firearm than with the a car... Am I wierd?

(Edited because I hate it when people use than for then, and then for than, and I did that errrr)

Next year she might want a Single Action Army.