History Main / ShootingLessonsFromYourParents

May be used to humanize a ColdSniper, and is commonly part of the backstory of any SouthernFriedPrivates.

May be used to humanize a ColdSniper.

->'''Robin:''' My dad taught me how to shoot when I was a kid. Whenever I'm feeling lonely or depressed I just come here and it reminds me that...guns are fun.
-->--''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "Where Were We?"

* An evil example shows in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' as part of B.J.'s flashbacks. At one scene at the beginning of the game, B.J.'s dad Rip catches B.J.'s dog and tells B.J. to kill him, even putting the dog at line of sight of the shotgun. B.J.'s refusal has his father catching the dog and shooting it. Another flashback, a more benign one, has B.J. awakening Rip from his sleep in order to chase a "monster" lurking on the night, so Rip gives him another shotgun and they go chase it.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' has a couple of cases in which a grandmother taught her grandson:
** One of the characters from the DistantPrologue is last seen being taught to use a rifle by his grandmother.
** In the main timeframe, Lalli was taught his scouting skills by his grandmother Ensi, who is the previous owner of his rifle.

In RealLife, marksmanship and other martial skills are typically learned as an adult through military or police training. That doesn't have to be the case in fiction. If a character proves to be have ImprobableAimingSkills, their companions will assume that they gained these abilities through rigorous military discipline. Later in a flashback, however, it's shown that their skills were, in fact, simply a result of Dad taking them hunting as a child!

* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'': A heartwarming version with Jesper, whose mother taught him all manner of practical skills, especially hunting.[[spoiler: She was a Fabrikator, too, and may have been teaching him to use his powers to control bullets without him realizing it.]]

* ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove''. When Lazarus Long was ten years old, his grandfather Ira Johnson taught him how to shoot. The most important lesson he learned was to never trust anyone else's word about whether a gun was loaded or unloaded, but to always check it yourself. He says that that lesson - expanded to cover most situations - saved his life several times.

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeris 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.

* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Robin, who was practically RaisedAsTheOppositeGender, was taught by her father how to shoot when she was a kid. When Marshall is depressed from his break-up with Lily, she takes him to a shooting range to cheer him up.

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* Some TruthInTelevision: people from rural areas, being taught to hunt from a young age, are at least familiar with gun safety and maintenance. They don't automatically have all the skills necessary for warfare, but they have some advantage over someone who has no experience at all or has only handled handguns.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', the Lone Wanderer is taught how to shoot by their dad, practicing on Radroaches in a deserted section of Vault 101.

* Tulip in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' was taught to shoot by her father. This was part of her father, without actually challenging her biological gender, bringing her up to have stereotypically masculine talents because he'd have preferred to have a son.

%%* Luke Skywalker, hero of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' films, attributes his ability to make highly improbable shots in a [[CoolStarship X-Wing]] to his experience hunting vermin in his family's personal transport. - '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample'''
--> '''Luke:''' "I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters."

* In the 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]]

* Luke Skywalker, hero of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' films, attributes his ability to make highly improbable shots in a [[CoolStarship X-Wing]] to his experience hunting vermin in his family's personal transport. - '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample'''

* #2 on Website/{{Cracked}}'s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html "5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy"]] is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York then-Corporal Alvin York of the 82nd Infantry Division]], who earned the Medal of Honor for singlehandedly capturing a German machine gun nest in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, killing at least 28 enemy soldiers, whereupon the other ''one hundred thirty-two'' surrendered to him. Afterwards he compared it to target shooting and turkey-hunting back home in Tennessee. - '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample'''

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