steverjo
Member
Sorry for the long post, but I think this is a good story.
My wife and I are pushing 60yo, but we are both in great shape, love the outdoors and feel like we are in our 20's.
When we got married, 30+ years ago, I owned a Ruger 10/22 that I would shoot occasionally. My wife never expressed an interest in it and I didn't force her to go with me.
About 20 years ago, I bought a S&W .38cal 2" revolver. I liked it and asked my wife to try it. She shot one round through it and never touched it again. She didn't like the recoil.
Last year, about this time, I started making hints about how I would like to go hunting but did not have an appropriate rifle. For Christmas, she bought me a Howa 1500 .30-06, with a decent scope. Nice rifle, fairly accurate and I have had a lot of fun with it.
In June of this year, I took a precision rifle course and used one of the rifles from the school and was impressed with accuracy of a custom made .308. So I started talking about getting another rifle that would be more accurate and got the line "Why do you need another gun, you already have 3?"
So I thought for a bit and then decided to buy her a Sig Mosquito .22LR pistol. Needless to say, she was surprised, but said she would try it. She really liked it. Then she started asking me to go shooting with her. I then got my "better" rifle, a Tikka T3 Tactical. Very nice by the way. Extremely accurate. After about a month or two she said that she thinks she needs to get something larger. (took me by surprise). We went to the local indoor range and starting renting other pistols, everything from 9mm to .45. She decided she could handle the 9mm.
Then she started looking at training facilities and has decided to take an eight hour defensive handgun course. She wants me to take it too and said I should get a .40cal. She has been looking at catalogs and stores and says she wants to work up to a Kimber.
This all started with getting her a pistol of her own that she could feel comfortable with.
Am I lucky?
My wife and I are pushing 60yo, but we are both in great shape, love the outdoors and feel like we are in our 20's.
When we got married, 30+ years ago, I owned a Ruger 10/22 that I would shoot occasionally. My wife never expressed an interest in it and I didn't force her to go with me.
About 20 years ago, I bought a S&W .38cal 2" revolver. I liked it and asked my wife to try it. She shot one round through it and never touched it again. She didn't like the recoil.
Last year, about this time, I started making hints about how I would like to go hunting but did not have an appropriate rifle. For Christmas, she bought me a Howa 1500 .30-06, with a decent scope. Nice rifle, fairly accurate and I have had a lot of fun with it.
In June of this year, I took a precision rifle course and used one of the rifles from the school and was impressed with accuracy of a custom made .308. So I started talking about getting another rifle that would be more accurate and got the line "Why do you need another gun, you already have 3?"
So I thought for a bit and then decided to buy her a Sig Mosquito .22LR pistol. Needless to say, she was surprised, but said she would try it. She really liked it. Then she started asking me to go shooting with her. I then got my "better" rifle, a Tikka T3 Tactical. Very nice by the way. Extremely accurate. After about a month or two she said that she thinks she needs to get something larger. (took me by surprise). We went to the local indoor range and starting renting other pistols, everything from 9mm to .45. She decided she could handle the 9mm.
Then she started looking at training facilities and has decided to take an eight hour defensive handgun course. She wants me to take it too and said I should get a .40cal. She has been looking at catalogs and stores and says she wants to work up to a Kimber.
This all started with getting her a pistol of her own that she could feel comfortable with.
Am I lucky?
