I got a few small nerf guns for my daughter to work with when she turned 5. They are OK, she learned with them but they are really hard to cock and she gets frustrated with not being able to do it herself. So when Gander 2.0 went belly up last summer I picked a few cheap airsoft pistols. They are knock off colt's, she can rack the slide but Holy hell they are inaccurate lol. This also caused a lot of frustration because she was aiming correctly but hitting like 15" high left from 15' away. I got a bit nicer 1911 knock off which is a good shooter and she's been practicing with that even though it's too big for her hands. She has a pink cricket .22 from when Gander 1.0 went under but we haven't got that far yet to shoot it. She will also get my wife's savage single shot target rifle from when she did junior small bore, hopefully she will be interested in doing it too. She still needs help and ask alot of questions but she's picking it up. Now I just need a decent backstop for those damn airsoft bb's so we can shoot inside.