Got my 12 yr old daughter on her first deer yesterday. We sat the morning looking for does or pigs. Had a pig really early, but not enough light to shoot, then saw four bucks over the next two hours, but no does, which is weird as we have a lot of does. Anyway, we head back to the house at around 9:30, and on the way we see some does. She wants to try for one, so we stop the mule, hop out and put a little stalk on. I’m constantly telling her to go slower and make every step quiet. We get to a fence gate that is a good spot to watch from and rest the rifle on, but the does start moving out. About the 4th candidate for a shot finally stands still watching us for too long. She was quartering on hard to us, but I had gone over shot placement with the kiddo in the blind and just told her to aim halfway up the body inside the shoulder. It was at least a 100 yard shot, maybe 120. We talked through squeezing the trigger slowly, and as she was lining up the shot, I knew the safety was on, but I wanted to watch her trigger pull/flinch to gauge if we needed to calm down and reset, as she was breathing hard. There was zero flinch as she realized the trigger pull wasn’t resulting in a shot and the safety must be on. Very cool, made me feel like we had a good chance at a clean kill. She slid the safety off, re-lined up and put a shot on the doe. I heard the hit and saw the on-side shoulder malfunctioning as the doe spun, and she was down in ~40 yards. Kiddo was stoked. I mean like really stoked. “I am achieving things!!!” Lol It was great. Later she asked me if I noticed her breathing hard before the shot and I said yes, and she said it was because she was tiring of standing on her toes to get the rifle lined up. (The top rail of the gate was a little too high of a rifle rest) Buck fever was evidently not a factor. She had only shot this rifle (300 BLK) off a heavy tripod with subsonics, and I had put in some supers for hunting and now wasn’t using a tripod. I was hoping she wouldn’t notice any difference with the changes and I didn’t mention them as I didn’t want her distracted. Worked great. She really wanted to make it happen, and she did.