Oh my,
I like that line of thinkin......
To keep in the line of the thread.
When me and the Mrs first hooked up a few years back, (Basically,I came home
with her the first night and never left....)
Of course the topic of firearms came up.
The idea of havin a few shotguns and rifles didnt bother her too much,but she was kinda concerned about handguns and asked if I owned any.
Well,of course I do....Whats the difference??
She didnt really have a reply.
So I loaded up the .45 laid it out on the kitchen table and yelled "Shoot" "Fire" "Kill"
and the gun did nothing.....it just laid there.
When the Mrs seen that at first she thought I was kinda nuts....
But after a day or two of having the .45 on nightstand duty she came to the
conclusion she could finally feel safe and sleep well.
After a couple of weeks go by....she asks me " Dont you do things...you know like hobbies?"
I told her I do...but didnt think she would be interested,but she lets me know I was free to go do "my thing"....so off to the range I go.
Halfway out the door with range bag in hand I asked if she wants her to come along.
To my surprise she actually did.
For the first 10 mins she was content to watch me shoot from behind the glass...in the "lounge area" of Shooters Sports Center.
Trying to keep half an eye on the then new girlfriend,loading mags and posting targets got to be too much like work...So I gave her some earplugs and invited her onto the range and had her in the booth with me loading the mags.Then some instruction on safe handling.
We spent quite a few hours on the range that day and she went from loading mags to shooting my 1911 to renting a .38 revolver and back to shooting my 1911.
At the end of her first day on the range I took one of my targets and then her best target with my 1911 and laid hers over mine. With the exception of one that drifted a little wider from the group her shot grouping was
identical to mine.
A couple weeks later after renting every pistol from the .22cal to the 3in .45 1911 (now its called the EMP but at the time it was something else and I dont remember the model name) they have available,along with several trips to Sportsmens Warehouse,we settled on a Browning BDA .380 for her.
For the first year and a half or so our "Date Night Out" was a trip to the pistol range.
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