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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': A variant. Scully learned to shoot from her brothers after being gifted a BB gun for her birthday. The story in which this is relayed to the audience is mean to highlight Dana's feminine compassion after she felt remorse for shooting an innocent animal, but it goes a long way to explaining why she's the one with ImprobableAimingSkills despite being the scientist in the CopAndScientist duo with Mulder.
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* Balearic slingers were famed as mercenaries as far back as the Roman era, and supposedly taught their children the skill by putting their children's meals in a basket on a tree, forcing the kids to knock it out via sling if they wanted to eat.
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* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' when Tim gets a tranquilizer gun confiscated from his dorm room as a "riffle" Tim and Alfred use this to explain why Tim had it when Alfred poses as Tim's dad and rambles on amiably with the supervisor before agreeing to never send Tim another gun at school.

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* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' when ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': When Tim gets a tranquilizer gun confiscated from his dorm room as a "riffle" Tim and Alfred use this to explain why Tim had it when Alfred poses as Tim's dad and rambles on amiably with the supervisor before agreeing to never send Tim another gun at school.
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* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'' has a moment in the third episode where Lee teaches Clementine how to shoot a gun while they're on the train they commandeered. This, along with Clementine's ImportantHaircut, goes a long way towards deepening the bond between surrogate father and surrogate daughter, and help prepare her for the world that isn't kind to unprepared individuals.
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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': A flashback in ''Exes and Oohs'' suggests that Moxxie learned his ImprobableAimingSkills from his mother while he was still a child. Although [[TheDon his father]] appears to have encouraged his marksmanship training too, by all indications he was more interested in turning Moxxie [[ARealManIsAKiller into a killer]] than a competent marksman.
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* ''Literature/InCryptid'': This has been the case for several generations of the Price-Healy family since they left the Covenant. There are several references to going to the range for training and maintaining skills, even not being allowed to go there as punishment. Of the current generation; Alex is the deadliest shot, Verity is the ''best'' shot, and Annie best with throwing knives over pistols and long guns the former two use.
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* In the ''Manga/CaseClosed'' movie "The Fourteenth Target", we find out that Shinichi was taught to shoot by his father during vacations to Hawaii, after he [[spoiler: [[ShootTheHostage shoots Ran in the leg]] while she's held hostage by the villian]]

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* In the ''Manga/CaseClosed'' movie "The Fourteenth Target", ''Anime/DetectiveConanFilm02TheFourteenthTarget'', we find out that Shinichi Shin’ichi was taught to shoot by his father Yusaku during vacations to Hawaii, after he [[spoiler: [[ShootTheHostage shoots Ran in the leg]] while she's held hostage by the villian]]
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* In the ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' movie "The Fourteenth Target", we find out that Shinichi was taught to shoot by his father during vacations to Hawaii, after he [[spoiler: [[ShootTheHostage shoots Ran in the leg]] while she's held hostage by the villian]]

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* In the ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' ''Manga/CaseClosed'' movie "The Fourteenth Target", we find out that Shinichi was taught to shoot by his father during vacations to Hawaii, after he [[spoiler: [[ShootTheHostage shoots Ran in the leg]] while she's held hostage by the villian]]
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Sam and Dean were both taught to shoot by their demon-hunting father, John. When the brothers discover their father's storage locker, Dean is touched to discover John kept a sawed-off shotgun Dean made in sixth grade as a keepsake.

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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Sam and Dean were both taught to shoot by their demon-hunting father, John. When the brothers discover their father's storage locker, Dean is touched to discover John kept a sawed-off shotgun Dean made in sixth grade as a keepsake. Later {{Subverted}} as Dean takes great pains to prevent his surrogate son Ben from ever touching a gun and is heartbroken when forced to do so.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Sam and Dean were both taught to shoot by their demon-hunting father, John. When the brothers discover their father's storage locker, Dean is touched to discover John kept a sawed-off shotgun Dean made in sixth grade as a keepsake.
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* Lampshaded in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin''. When [[spoiler:Haku]] suddenly demonstrates the ability to match Sasuke blow for blow with a sword during the Chunin Exam finals, he points out that all three of his parental figures are swordsmen. It'd be more surprising if they ''hadn't'' taught him anything.
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* In The Sacrifice comic for ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', it's revealed that Zoey learned how to shoot a gun from her dad, who was a cop. This helped her survive against the zombie outbreak.
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* Some versions of ''Myth/WilliamTell'' mention that he makes a crossbow for his son Walter, and presumably teaches him to shoot with it.
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