Had a first timer

[wildddw]

I had a friend dating a gentleman from Ireland and we took him skeet shooting and he practically fainted from the excitement! He simply couldn't believe that I could just own a firearm at the ripe old age of 19. He almost lost it when I told him that technically one could own a silencer and fully automatic weapons!!!

 

[1775usmarine]

My wife does trap so next time I'll have her teach them trap as I've never done it yet either.

 

[Redacted]

Not what I expected when I read "Had a first timer".

 

[1775usmarine]

lol

 

[Lefty64]

Awesome, wish I had someone that could have provided me with an intro session like that when I was younger

 

[actaeon277]

Awesome, wish I had someone that could have provided me with an intro session like that when I was younger

Come to one of our Meet & Shoots up here in NWI.
We'll try to make up for it.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

Good job!

By teaching new shooters safety, we save lives. I am firm in this belief.

 

[Bfish]

Just got around to reading this one but that is fantastic! I am always happy to hear about newbies growing a love for guns!

 

[1775usmarine]

I quite enjoy teaching albeit using things I learned when I was a range coach in the service. I think next person I teach won't bring the whole arsenal was a little tired afterwards. Didn't really shoot much beside the mauser I had been dying to shoot and see how it did.
I did help gunbunnies brother find out which eye he was dominant at the youth shoot as well as his son. I also showed him how to do things as a lefty like myself when it comes to firearms. Since we work at the same yard he's been hitting me up for advice and such.

 

[rjh78]

I'm still trying to get my girlfriend to come shooting with me. She agrees that if she lives in a house with guns she needs to know how to use them, but she'll go into hysterics if I even hand her one unloaded.

 

[actaeon277]

I'm still trying to get my girlfriend to come shooting with me. She agrees that if she lives in a house with guns she needs to know how to use them, but she'll go into hysterics if I even hand her one unloaded.

Not sure what you can do.
She's been programmed by all the news.
Pointing out the millions of guns that DIDN'T shoot someone won't help.

 

[rjh78]

Not sure what you can do.
She's been programmed by all the news.
Pointing out the millions of guns that DIDN'T shoot someone won't help.

She's not anti-gun per say, because that would be awkward, but she's just scared of an unintentional discharge. She has no problem seeing me with them, and is happy for me to carry around her, but its just she doesn't want to touch them. We'll get there one day, hopefully without her feeling the need to shoot me! Although that would get her to pick one up...

 

[actaeon277]

She's not anti-gun per say, because that would be awkward, but she's just scared of an unintentional discharge. She has no problem seeing me with them, and is happy for me to carry around her, but its just she doesn't want to touch them. We'll get there one day, hopefully without her feeling the need to shoot me! Although that would get her to pick one up...

I start boy scouts off with how to point ane carry a 10/22 by using an old stock with conduit blue duct taped to it.
Sort a gradual thing.