My girlfriend had never fired a gun before and I took her to the range about 3-4 weeks ago. I let her shoot my M&P and my S&W 642. She says I like it and want to shoot more. Last night was my grass cutting evening at the club, so I had her meet me there and I brought 2 Savage Mark II 22lr with scopes, Savage Axis 223rem and both handguns. She arrives wearing jean shorts, low cut, sleeveless shirt, tan shooting vest, S&W hat, Pink ear muffs and goggles. It was so cute!
I set up 12'' shoot n see at 100yards along with about 20 florescent green 2x2 blocks and clay targets. She was shooting at the shoot n see with everything grouping to the right of the bulls eye so I adjusted the windage and with Remington Thunderbolts she was sending them in the center of the target. I was spotting for her and didn't see anymore hits and when I brought it to her attention she says "shooting the blocks is more fun cause they fly apart". I said what? I look at the blocks and only about 10 are standing. Her dad left behind a lot of ammo and she brought a few bricks of 22lr. I told her I would buy them from her because she doesn't have a 22lr. She turns and smiled and says "yet". Yeah, I think she is hooked.
I had my older Mark II with crap trigger and resting on a sand bag atop an ammo can and said loser buys dinner! Next thing I know she is banging away like Chris Kyle with the Mark II heavy barrel & accu trigger and only one block is left. I missed and she says "here, let me get that for you" and blows the thing apart. The smile on her face was priceless. She walks over to my single case and says what's in here? I replied my woodchuck rifle 223rem. I said, there is a box of 223rem sitting on my tailgate with your name on it. She starts smiling and runs to the tailgate. I show her how to load the magazine and put a 2'' shoot n see at 100yards and adjust the front rest and rear bag and tell her to shoot the little red dot. She is shaking before the first shot and it goes off. She says, "that's not that bad" and chambers another. She is very stubborn and goes at things 100mph. She tossed the rear bag to the side and was all upset she wasn't hitting the shoot n see. I tried helping her and said, you know what, she is having fun who cares if she hits it. Out of 10 shots she hit it 4 times.
Now onto pistol...
About 8 guys showed up wanting to shoot pistol to prepare for the clubs pistol match tomorrow and I told her about 100 times that she needs to be on her A game because there are a lot of people around. Everyone hangs targets and I walk over to the table and there sits the revolver and semi auto loaded. I told her we don't leave loaded guns laying around and we will all rotate when we shoot, load when ready to shoot. She had a few mistakes like swiping me or walking to the shooting spot with a closed cylinder and unloading it when walking back. I went with her the time she shot the semi automatic just to be sure all was good (only second time firing a semi auto and she had a hot case fall into her low cut shirt. She turned around on me with a live round chambered and I kind of snapped at her . It was odd that CCI blazers threw strait up in the air but my handloads ejected like normal. She took another hot piece of brass down the low cut shirt again and stood there and took it. I explained to her nicely that there was a live round and someone could have gotten hurt. No more low cut shirts at the range. She says she wanted to look nice for me. She is pretty accurate with both guns, but has dexterity issues firing the revolver,so doesn't like it that much. Us and another set of shooters called cold range and changed targets. She was marking her holes on the target and I look over and see the other shooter with gun drawn and getting ready to fire. I tried yelling at him, but he didn't hear, so I yelled at her to get back here. I said something to him and he says "I was just dry firing and adjusting my sight". This is why I usually leave when other pistol shooters show up.
We went to dinner and even though she beat me in the block shooting she paid for dinner. I asked if she was mad at me for snapping at her about safe handling and she said no and wants to shoot again and next time she is wearing a sweat shirt. She got 2 pretty good burn marks on her chest. She asked when we can go again and says I am buying guns, but you have to be with me. I told her what is mine is her's. If she wants to shoot it just ask.
I set up 12'' shoot n see at 100yards along with about 20 florescent green 2x2 blocks and clay targets. She was shooting at the shoot n see with everything grouping to the right of the bulls eye so I adjusted the windage and with Remington Thunderbolts she was sending them in the center of the target. I was spotting for her and didn't see anymore hits and when I brought it to her attention she says "shooting the blocks is more fun cause they fly apart". I said what? I look at the blocks and only about 10 are standing. Her dad left behind a lot of ammo and she brought a few bricks of 22lr. I told her I would buy them from her because she doesn't have a 22lr. She turns and smiled and says "yet". Yeah, I think she is hooked.
I had my older Mark II with crap trigger and resting on a sand bag atop an ammo can and said loser buys dinner! Next thing I know she is banging away like Chris Kyle with the Mark II heavy barrel & accu trigger and only one block is left. I missed and she says "here, let me get that for you" and blows the thing apart. The smile on her face was priceless. She walks over to my single case and says what's in here? I replied my woodchuck rifle 223rem. I said, there is a box of 223rem sitting on my tailgate with your name on it. She starts smiling and runs to the tailgate. I show her how to load the magazine and put a 2'' shoot n see at 100yards and adjust the front rest and rear bag and tell her to shoot the little red dot. She is shaking before the first shot and it goes off. She says, "that's not that bad" and chambers another. She is very stubborn and goes at things 100mph. She tossed the rear bag to the side and was all upset she wasn't hitting the shoot n see. I tried helping her and said, you know what, she is having fun who cares if she hits it. Out of 10 shots she hit it 4 times.
Now onto pistol...
About 8 guys showed up wanting to shoot pistol to prepare for the clubs pistol match tomorrow and I told her about 100 times that she needs to be on her A game because there are a lot of people around. Everyone hangs targets and I walk over to the table and there sits the revolver and semi auto loaded. I told her we don't leave loaded guns laying around and we will all rotate when we shoot, load when ready to shoot. She had a few mistakes like swiping me or walking to the shooting spot with a closed cylinder and unloading it when walking back. I went with her the time she shot the semi automatic just to be sure all was good (only second time firing a semi auto and she had a hot case fall into her low cut shirt. She turned around on me with a live round chambered and I kind of snapped at her . It was odd that CCI blazers threw strait up in the air but my handloads ejected like normal. She took another hot piece of brass down the low cut shirt again and stood there and took it. I explained to her nicely that there was a live round and someone could have gotten hurt. No more low cut shirts at the range. She says she wanted to look nice for me. She is pretty accurate with both guns, but has dexterity issues firing the revolver,so doesn't like it that much. Us and another set of shooters called cold range and changed targets. She was marking her holes on the target and I look over and see the other shooter with gun drawn and getting ready to fire. I tried yelling at him, but he didn't hear, so I yelled at her to get back here. I said something to him and he says "I was just dry firing and adjusting my sight". This is why I usually leave when other pistol shooters show up.
We went to dinner and even though she beat me in the block shooting she paid for dinner. I asked if she was mad at me for snapping at her about safe handling and she said no and wants to shoot again and next time she is wearing a sweat shirt. She got 2 pretty good burn marks on her chest. She asked when we can go again and says I am buying guns, but you have to be with me. I told her what is mine is her's. If she wants to shoot it just ask.
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