On a side note, they are idiots for not at least having a pad on that 20gauge single shot.
I'd have told him, for every shot my kid has to fire, I'm punching you in the back of the head.
This.
They'll ruin a kid for life, especially the small ones. They get rocked by that recoil and they never want to shoot again. We use gas 20 gauges with light 7/8 loads. There are times as an RSO during live fire that I'm actually hanging onto the receiver for these kids to reduce weight and recoil for them. Some are simply too small and shouldn't shoot until they get a little bigger. No kid HAS to shoot in our program. WE encourage it, but don't force it.
