Things were good early on. She grew up on a farm and was around guns and hunting, but didn't participate. Then I came along. At the time, I only had a 10-22 and an 870 12ga. I got her to shoot the 10-22. After a while (after the bells rang) I started adding on (not in order); she bought me a Ruger MK2. Then I got a 760 in 06 (deer hunting), an 1100 in 12ga (hunting and trap & skeet). Then the kids came, a girl, then twin boys. As the sons got older, so did the collection; 2 more 10-22s, a 742c in 06, a 740 in 06, an 1100 in 20ga, a Ruger Redhawk 357 mag, an 1100 12ga trap gun, an 870 410 skeet gun, a Ruger Super Redhawk in 44mag, a Beretta 92fs 9mm, a CZ 75 in 9mm, a 700VLS in 22-250 and 2 M1 carbines. I was hunting, shooting trap and skeet, target shooting and just general mahem, I had a 12ga reloader and have a Rockchucker. She even went deer hunting with me a few years.
My daughter never seemed to show much interest in the guns and shooting while the boys took to hunting, fishing and shooting as soon as they could hold a gun or a fishing rod.
When it came time that my daughter left home, she asked me if she could go shooting with me before she left. Just about dropped me in my tracks. Well, I took her to the range and she shot a 12ga and the 10-22. Then she insisted that she wanted to shoot the 760! I let her have a go at it and she shot that thing like a pro! She had it in the bulseye every shot! I was so startled and proud of her, I let her take the 760 and 100 reloads with her. She had so much fun telling me how she shot the pants off those boys out in Montana! (She gave credit to my reloads of course!
Then, all of a sudden, something changed. Now its "you don't need that" and "if you get another gun, we're getting a divorce". ????
By the way, we've been married for 44 years.