This is my fault. Crystalrose is my girlfriend of one year and six months with something in change. She met me while I was finishing up law school, my ex left me in the first semester of my last year of law school. The current girlfriend and bride-to-be is crystalrose. She stuck by me while I prepared for the Bar, twice, cleaned for me when I needed, cooked for me when I need, loved me when I needed, forgave when I needed, and has been a constant friend and companion all through this crazy time in life. I'm 26 and she's 25. She told me that after two years of being together I had to make a choice of getting married or not. I can't rightly blame her, she's smart for saying, I've seen too many women spend years with guys just to get passed up for the next girl.
Put it simply, she'll shoot with me whenever I want to. If all the bills are getting paid and money is getting put in the bank, I can pretty much buy myself(or herself) a firearm when I want to. If I tell her we have to work together in my carpet-tile-hardwood floor-marble-furniture cleaning business on the weekend to save money up to blow recklessly(because all the money we earn during the week being responsible wage earners goes in the bank) she'll do it. She'll put in a twelve hour day with me moving equipment and dealing with my intense and sometimes sour attitude and still cook me something to eat before I pass out. I've worked 16 hour days and not gotten home till past 10pm at night to find a hot and fresh meal waiting for me. We are still ironing out our relationship and just because we get engaged doesn't mean were in a race to the altar. She just wants some security. We're both too young to be married, but too old not be nowadays. I love her, I want to give her world, and I'm happy she likes shooting.
She said the coolest thing yesterday more or less, "I wish Florida would just get open carry so I could put a Kimber on my hip and not have to carry it in my purse." She understands I'm miserly with my money. She's okay with my concept of "what you earn in one month should pay your bills for two months" as far as savings. My business is growing slowly but growing, and she's intelligent and hardworking enough to manage it and some employees for me when I'm doing my law career full time (which she knows will mean 70+ hours a week). I know I'll never find another woman better to be my business partner, my best friend, mother of my children, and shooting partner.
She wants a Kimber, I don't remember the model but I'll post a picture we found off gunbroker. Mind you she wants a "beautiful" gun and I don't mind her having one so long as she can shoot it fairly. She did well at 5 yards with my Ruger P345 for the first time every really shooting (I had her shoot a 9mm and .22 first, I just wanted her to get over her recoil fears before really shooting on my Glock 23). So there's a range next to us that rents a 1911, I think it's a Sig so maybe she'll go for that. If she can handle 50 rounds fairly at 20 feet and she doesn't get frustrated or upset than a 1911 may be in her future. Of course after she made her post we went over the order of engagement ring and pistol purchase. I have to purchase a $400 engagement ring she wants before I can buy another pistol. So if I buy the ring but don't give it to her, it's okay if I buy say a Springfield 1911 Mil Spec(one I want as a "working gun") and have her practice with it.
I explained to her that a Kimber 1911 is like a lifetime gun, on par with say a Colt or Sig. You buy it, feed it, take care of it, and shoot it till falls apart which with the right maintenance and visits back to the factory, can be a lifetime for some guns. She's okay with that. Granted she wants an M4 also which again I have no problem buying. I'm saving our loose change(pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters) for whatever beautiful gun she wants. Given I spend cash rather than use debit or credit cards normally, I easily have at least $.50 in my pocket each day if not a few dollars in change. I sent in my oath certificate for bar admission and I'll have my Bar car in a few weeks. I got word I'll be certified for Circuit Civil Mediation in six to eight weeks, I'm already certified for family and occassionaly getting family mediations, and plenty of lawyers told me to call them back to mediate for them when I got admitted to the bar so <fingers cross> I can buy myself a Springfield Mil Spec and my fiancee a Kimber in six months or so, oh and an engagement ring.
So on to finally ending this little bit, I'm hoping Ruger comes out with a "beautiful" 1911 so I can save on cash and have a company I and many other Ruger firearm owners have come to trust and cherish for their quality and excellent customer service.
Oh and please don't post any pictures of $2,000 guns, thanks ahead of time.
