MagnumDweeb
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I started teaching my girlfriend how to shoot. At first she like the feel of my Glock 23 till she got to shooting my Ruger P345. Her first time out was impressive to the range master. I remember that day guys in the other lanes exclaiming something like "I can't shoot that .45 it's too much." I laugh a little inside at that. Yesterday my girlfriend finally got to shoot a 1911 we rented at the range and she liked it better than my Ruger P345, a S&W E series 1911. My girlfriend enjoys shooting .45 ACP, in part because she believes its best of the auto rounds(I think I'm the blame for that), and there are guys who seem to get daunted by the idea of shooting the simple, easy, and old caliber. We've been at the range and offered guys watching her(in shock at her abilities) a chance to shoot my P345 and they declined.
She did pretty well with it for the fifty rounds she got to shoot, when she went back to shooting my Ruger P345 she got aggravated with the Wolf ammo jamming the three or four times it did (I hadn't cleaned the gun since a couple of range visits ago). She seems to handle .45 ACP without too much trouble. She's not shooting great, she's shooting slow, but I think she's developing the fundamentals well. For only having shot .45 ACP 4 times I think she's doing a great job. I had her shoot eight rounds out of my P345 once on a target to start after she got done with the 1911, the other pics are her shooting the 1911.
Funny enough her best friend actually shot better with my Ruger GP100 6" half lug with .357 magnum, American Eagle 158 grain JSP, than with my S&W Model 15 with .38 special 158 grain FMJ. The pics are of targets shot at only twenty feet, mind you this is only her third time ever really shooting .45 ACP, the first time was just to get her over the anxiety of smacking her face with the Glock 23 and .40(see the bigger gun won't hurt you, so the smaller won't as well). On a by and by the S&W 1911 E series was a sweet shooter at twenty yards, I kept a five inch grouping with little trouble and five rounds at a target shooter's pace first time out.
So whose wives, girlfriends, fiancees, or women themselves, enjoy the mild thump and ease of shooting the .45 ACP.
She did pretty well with it for the fifty rounds she got to shoot, when she went back to shooting my Ruger P345 she got aggravated with the Wolf ammo jamming the three or four times it did (I hadn't cleaned the gun since a couple of range visits ago). She seems to handle .45 ACP without too much trouble. She's not shooting great, she's shooting slow, but I think she's developing the fundamentals well. For only having shot .45 ACP 4 times I think she's doing a great job. I had her shoot eight rounds out of my P345 once on a target to start after she got done with the 1911, the other pics are her shooting the 1911.
Funny enough her best friend actually shot better with my Ruger GP100 6" half lug with .357 magnum, American Eagle 158 grain JSP, than with my S&W Model 15 with .38 special 158 grain FMJ. The pics are of targets shot at only twenty feet, mind you this is only her third time ever really shooting .45 ACP, the first time was just to get her over the anxiety of smacking her face with the Glock 23 and .40(see the bigger gun won't hurt you, so the smaller won't as well). On a by and by the S&W 1911 E series was a sweet shooter at twenty yards, I kept a five inch grouping with little trouble and five rounds at a target shooter's pace first time out.
So whose wives, girlfriends, fiancees, or women themselves, enjoy the mild thump and ease of shooting the .45 ACP.
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