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After being together for over 4 years my GF finally agreed to go shooting with me yesterday.
A little background, she absolutely hates guns. She supports the right to own and carry guns, but she always had a strong fear of them and simply did not like being around them. This is slightly understandable given an incident involving someone in her immediate family which I won't go into here.
I was sort of surprised she wanted to go, but happy she wanted to give it a shot (pun intended).
To start off I rented a Buck Mark at the range (awesome gun BTW, I'll be buying one soon) and gave her the run down on safety, the operation of the gun, grip, stance, etc. She did great! Was putting all shots in a 4-5" group at about 6yds (not bad for someone who had previously never touched a gun). She quickly got tighter and tighter and wanted to move the target back more. Then after a while she got bored with the .22 and wanted to try my Glock 17. She ended up shooting the 17 better than the Buck Mark!
The only thing she didn't like was that her hands got sore after a few mags (we were shooting Speer Lawman FMJ which is pretty hot for a range load).
By the time we left she was more or less over her fear since she now understood how guns worked and how hard it would be for a gun to fire without someone pulling the trigger. She said she enjoyed shooting and would love to go back. There was even some tentative talk about applying for a GWL and possibly looking at carry guns in the next year.
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A little background, she absolutely hates guns. She supports the right to own and carry guns, but she always had a strong fear of them and simply did not like being around them. This is slightly understandable given an incident involving someone in her immediate family which I won't go into here.
I was sort of surprised she wanted to go, but happy she wanted to give it a shot (pun intended).
To start off I rented a Buck Mark at the range (awesome gun BTW, I'll be buying one soon) and gave her the run down on safety, the operation of the gun, grip, stance, etc. She did great! Was putting all shots in a 4-5" group at about 6yds (not bad for someone who had previously never touched a gun). She quickly got tighter and tighter and wanted to move the target back more. Then after a while she got bored with the .22 and wanted to try my Glock 17. She ended up shooting the 17 better than the Buck Mark!
The only thing she didn't like was that her hands got sore after a few mags (we were shooting Speer Lawman FMJ which is pretty hot for a range load).
By the time we left she was more or less over her fear since she now understood how guns worked and how hard it would be for a gun to fire without someone pulling the trigger. She said she enjoyed shooting and would love to go back. There was even some tentative talk about applying for a GWL and possibly looking at carry guns in the next year.
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