Great video on helping a new female shooter pick her first gun

Anyone looking for a gun for their better half should also make sure both read Kathy Jackson's Cornered Cat: http://www.corneredcat.com/

Written by a female instructor, she has lots of great info for both the male and female.

He's a good instructor, but he didn't work much on her form-she leans back most of the time. Not as critical with a pistol, but when she gets to the rifle....thank goodness he made sure she had a proper hold with the shotgun!
Also, he has to constantly remind her to keep the finger off the trigger, and sometimes he isn't catching it when she keeps it on (8:48), (12:00)
Brittany is a natural shooter! If she continues working with him or anther instructor, she will be proficient very quickly!
And as a final take- this proves what I've learned as an instructor over the years-new female shooters LISTEN! They don't have ego problems like guys often do.

And as a final take- this proves what I've learned as an instructor over the years-new female shooters LISTEN! They don't have ego problems like guys often do.

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I see the same thing when helping a new female shooter with her shotgun on the sporting clays course. They KNOW they don't know everything, unlike the guys, and they absorb a lot more.

I have lost track of how many women I have helped pick out a firearm. The first thing I learned to accept was: I am always wrong. Women are just like men when it comes to gun shopping, they can like whatever they want for no reason at all. One of the first firearms I bought for my wife was a Taurus M327, in 327 Magnum. Ended up getting sold because she said it was too heavy. It is 26 oz unloaded. What firearm does she want now? She was comfortable with her service pistol. She was Army as well so that would be the civilian Beretta 92FS, weighs 34oz. But that is what she wants...

She also likes the heft of my 1911 in 45. Which is far more weight than the Taurus.

Another pistol I recommend to my wife was the Walther PPK or PPK/S. She held one at a gun show. Didn't like it, swore at it up and down. What did she get a few weeks later? BersaThunder 380. An almost direct clone to the PPK/S. This lady is hard to shop pistols for.

As far as the video goes, her shooting posture needs more coaching. She also developed hand fatigue very quickly (shaking hands). Will have to watch the rest later.

Just another man who thinks he knows what women need.

And at that, a man who doesn't know how to adjust a stock.

New shooters are best served burning through 1000 rounds of 22LR. Safety and shooting technique can be absorbed more easily when not being being distracted be recoil, blast and sound. That Ruger she started with would be perfect.

I almost stopped watching after the hip-hop started, then I did stop at the flat delivery of “someone’s trying to kill you.”

That instructor is a joke. It only took one third of a minute to tell.

Does it get better after the 20 second mark?

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New shooters are best served burning through 1000 rounds of 22LR. Safety and shooting technique can be absorbed more easily when not being being distracted be recoil, blast and sound. That Ruger she started with would be perfect.

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I was finally set on this exact path and it made a world of difference for me.

waterdog said:

New shooters are best served burning through 1000 rounds of 22LR. Safety and shooting technique can be absorbed more easily when not being being distracted be recoil, blast and sound. That Ruger she started with would be perfect.

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I've heard that a lot.

I started with an intro handgun class, then purchased a revolver. I picked a 4" 686 Plus and changed out the factory grips for Hogue grooveless. A big part of my reason for picking a revolver was that I am not mechanical and didn't want a gun I have to take apart to clean and then be able to correctly reassemble, plus nothing to jam, and no slide to think about. I went with the 686 because it was much more accurate for me than the GP-100. The big advantage I didn't know I was getting was that with a 12 pound trigger, you HAVE to shoot correctly, there is no such thing as flinching etc.