A Tale of 2 Girl Friends

[nelson133]

I've been dating some women I've met through one of the online services.
Last week one that I'd been getting along with pretty well decided that she couldn't handle me being regularly armed and didn't feel comfortable with someone having a gun in her house. Though she knew that I owned guns and shot regularly, and had thought she could handle it, she couldn't. I told her that guns were an important part of my life and my political outlook and that we shouldn't see each other anymore.
This Saturday I took a different woman to the range at her request. She had shot a shotgun twice in her entire life, but said she had seen women shooters on TV wearing eye and ear protection and shooting pistols and they looked "cool". I started her out on the Ruger .22 Govt model Mark II and then worked her up through a couple of .38 specials and then to a Ruger 95 in 9mm. She had a lot of fun and we were there for 5 hours. Another guy let her shoot his competition .45 and she put all but 2 in the black at 35 feet. I hadn't intended for her to try anything that big on the first time, but she did so well, I had her shoot my Beretta 96 in .40S&W and she shot that well also. She said she could believe how fast the time had gone by and that she wanted to go again. She shot very well with everything at 21 and 35 feet, didn't miss the paper once with anything she tried.
there were 3 problems, the first was that I spent a lot more time loading than I did shooting. The second was that she will be shooting better than me shortly (though that's truly not a real problem. The third is that she fell in love with that big Ruger 9mm and I may be hunting a new 9mm for myself soon.
She seems like a keeper. She thinks it is great that I carry and may want to carry her own.

 

[robert garner]

If she can cook

KEEP HER!
If she can't, get a cook and keep her anyway!
robert

 

[Mandirigma]

Sounds like a keeper.


I have a little different problem. Found out recently that a girl I've been seeing is a hoplophobe. Don't like guns or knives because of what they are capable of and/or used for.

She seems to think that we'd all be better off if there are no guns and knives etc etc etc. She's just as set in her ways as I am in mine. (I refuse to be unarmed)

Can't really bring myself to argue about it, people just are the way they are, and besides other than that issue she's down right fun

Currently its a non-issue, but I'm sure that'll change so my plan is to have about much fun as possible before we have the "lets be friends" talk. Heh.

 

[Brian Dale]

There were 3 problems, the first was that I spent a lot more time loading than I did shooting. The second was that she will be shooting better than me shortly (though that's truly not a real problem. The third is that she fell in love with that big Ruger 9mm and I may be hunting a new 9mm for myself soon.

I think that you misspelled "things I can be proud of."

Of course, she did #2 and #3 herself, but you're the one who took a new shooter to the range.

 

[NukemJim]

Beware, a little known side effect of having a GF who shoots (besides hapiness that is ) is that your gun is liable to transform.

As happened to 2 of my friends and myself recently we discovered that if you have a GF who shoots and you put a short trigger in your 1911 it changes from your gun to her gun

Cost me a new Kimber. *

NukemJim
* By the way she is well worth the cost NJ

 

[CajunBass]

As happened to 2 of my friends and myself recently we discovered that if you have a GF who shoots and you put a short trigger in your 1911 it changes from your gun to her gun

+1 one that. I'm having to keep my eye on my Commander now. Yesterday, my wife said "You know, I really like that Colt you got. I REALLY like it."

KEEP HER!
If she can't, get a cook and keep her anyway!
robert

+1 that also. You can always hire a cook. You can eat out. YOU can learn to cook.

Now if you get her to LIKE cleaning guns , well......

 

[GhostlyKarliion]

Happy for you man, really am


if it doesn't work out, send her my way


hehe, jk

 

[clt46910]

Personally, if she likes to shoot, I could care less if she can cook...LOL

I love to cook...I also have a dishwasher.

It seems he found a keeper....

 

[ID_shooting]

My wife grew up on a ranch in Oregon, guns have never been a problem except that it make huge dents in our savings account when she find guns she likes. Recently she found a 4 inch Colt Anaconda she wants (my delta will be put off yet again )

We have only been married 6 years and she has brought home 3 relvolvers, 3 rifles, and a shotgun. She doesn't like autoloading handguns for what ever reason though

BTW, I met her online as well. The internet isn't all that bad.

 

[craig]

you may as well buy another ruger.

trust me on this. i've lost many guns to my wife.

she likes stainless guns (the shiny factor she says), but now if i get a gun and she says "i like this one", i just go buy another one.

it preserves marital harmony.

 

[pax]

If you spent more time loading than you did shooting, it is time to teach her how to load the gun herself. No excuses now.

pax

 

[4v50 Gary]

I'm no "love" doctor, but...

Significance of dating is to weed out those prospects who, if married to you, would make your life h*** on Earth. Good work in weeding out one. She may have been a great gal - but for someone else. Better to go with someone who shares the same enjoyment in life as you do. Better yet, if you buy a gun, she has to buy one too to keep up. Tit-for-tat, so to speak. Make sure your ammunition is compatible though. Don't want to put the wrong magazine in the wrong gun.

 

[10-Ring]

Sounds like #2 is one to keep around! Hope things go well

 

[Nil]

+1 one that. I'm having to keep my eye on my Commander now. Yesterday, my wife said "You know, I really like that Colt you got. I REALLY like it."

Switch out the trigger to the nastiest, grittiest one you can find for now. Let her use it and when she comments on it, just shrug and say you don't know what the problem is with it. Continue with this for a few months until she finally gives up hope on your Commander. Then you'll be free to put back in the old trigger without fear of losing ownership of your 1911.

 

[Mortech]

All I can say is 'Welcome to my world' Sounds likr you hit the jackpot , now you need to see if she would enjoy reloading ...

 

[chris in va]

Amazing. I've never been around a female that actually wanted to get their own gun. Very foreign concept to me.

Certainly I've taken females to the range with me and they've had a pretty good time, but nothing like you describe.

 

[Mortech]

Not unusual , I have a daughter that fondles my weapons more than I do .... and she doesn't own any of her own ....YET

 

[lee n. field]

Last week one that I'd been getting along with pretty well decided that she couldn't handle me being regularly armed and didn't feel comfortable with someone having a gun in her house.

This may have been her way of sending you away gently.

 

[nelson133]

"This may have been her way of sending you away gently."
Ordinarily I would have thought so too, but due to the circumstances of how everything went down, I believe that it was genuine. Obviously I didn't discuss everything here.

 

[rangerruck]

" The time one spends reloading mags for a Babe and her firearm, are not deducted from the entirety of time from one's life." This is a quote from somewhere, maybe from me, but still if it is true, then you must keep reloading.

 

[usmccpl]

Ive got the same problem with the missus. In the time Ive been married,at her in insistence, I have had to bring around 4 guns per year.

 

[EZ CZ75]

My wife likes them shiny ones, too. She says the cute factor plays a big part. So she has a S&W 38 snubby and a CZ75B that she says just feels good. I had to buy her that or she would have taken my beloved CZ away from me.

 

[craig]

EZ CZ75... i heard that. i bought a 75, and my wife said,"i REALLY like this one."

so now we have two. i'm just glad the gun shop only had the blued ones in stock.

i also have a pcr compact, but she hasn't tried that one yet. i keep telling her it isn't broken in yet.

i wonder what it is about those guns?

almost everybody that has tried mine, wants one.