MagnumDweeb
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My fiance luckily, about a year, statred to enjoy shooting. I thought for a time that I was going to be out of luck about patronizing my love for shooting(eventually getting into competitions once I'm working as a lawyer, and taking up reloading, and unsophisticated custom work). Well wouldn't you know she goes and falls in love with my Ruger P90 .45 ACP.
First time I took her out I had her shoot 9mm out of my Arcus 94C(sold it for a profit to a cousin, she knew) and she had a rahter negative emotional reaction. When we left to get lunch she literally broke down into tears in truck and I felt like dirt over it, well like a trooper she gave it another go a month later. Not such a bad reaction but she was still a bit messed up over it, was doing really good each time out, nothing amazing but at fifteen yards she could keep the shots center mass and less than ten inch grouping.
We talked, and talked and settled on the idea that once we were married eventually (I have to finish law school, and she has to finish medical school, we're too busy for wedding bells) she'd go out to the range with me once a month to stay reliably proficient for HD/SD purposes but she'd never enjoy it and she would only get a small pocket pistol, she said my Rossi snubby .357 at the time (sold that too) was too big a gun. Well I picked up a .22lr revolver and planned to take her out to the range with it and I went ahead and brought the Ruger P90 out to get the dust out so to speak. Well I went ahead and fast fired a clip through it at fifteen yards, kept a tight five inch grouping for seven shots on a rifle target, nothing amazing for a gun I only shoot once every few months (bit my magnum bug in .357 and .44 and I can oddly keep those much tighter at 20 yards).
I turn to prep the .22lr revolver and I notice an twinkle in my fiance's eyes. She asks to shoot it and in odd and confused manner I reloaded and prepped it for her. She popped the safety off and at fifteen yards she kept a steady one shot/one second pace and kept it at about eight inches. She actually smiled and I was shocked. She asked to go again and I figured to let her go ahead the risk rocking the boat. In ten minutes she went through the rest of the 50 round box and a few 'custom' targets I had brought, (take a silohuette, reverse it and trace the outsides of playing cards six times on the target for speed run throughs with my mangum revolvers). She was really happy and she shot really well. This was all aobut nine months ago after we had been dating for well over a year and a half.
Now all she wants to shoot is my P90, I don't particularly miss or love the gun, it's just too reliable a gun to let go unlike my Pre-Braztech Rossi snubby and Arcus that I sold to my cousin both for five hundred (told her all about how I came by them and traded a RSBH back when I had three of them, didn't tell her I bought the RSBH at an estate sale for two hundred but I did my part to take her to gunbroker, auction arms, and gun shops, and told her the price I wanted was more than she could find them for but she learned to shoot on them and didn't mind the premium). When my fiance found out that I had sold my two cheapies she ripped me a new one about not selling my P90 and gave me an evil face.
Now I've tried to introduce her to the P345 slim downed DAO of the P90 but she doesn't want one ever. I've tried pointing out 1911s, Kahrs, yes even Glocks, XDs but she loves the P90. Loves it so much she frowned when I told her that the P90 was being phased out slowly for SR series.
I can't get to enjoy snubbies, pocket guns, just that P90, now she wants a shotgun and has had some luck with my 870 clone but her fixed taste just tickles me funny. My grandma was like that my grandpa told me when I told him about it. She'd only shoot and carry a Ruger Security Six 4" he'd come by on the cheap, from a buddy of his when he overhauled a motorcylce engine for him for fun. She just loved shooting .38 special out of it so I figure there must be other stories like that. Guns our women love and guns we lose.
If I could turn her onto a more CCW friendly gun I'd be happier but for now it's enough. Oh and she wants me to reload, and learn some gunsmithing so she can keep the P90 around as long as possible. I figure for a wedding present I'll pickup a few P90s.
First time I took her out I had her shoot 9mm out of my Arcus 94C(sold it for a profit to a cousin, she knew) and she had a rahter negative emotional reaction. When we left to get lunch she literally broke down into tears in truck and I felt like dirt over it, well like a trooper she gave it another go a month later. Not such a bad reaction but she was still a bit messed up over it, was doing really good each time out, nothing amazing but at fifteen yards she could keep the shots center mass and less than ten inch grouping.
We talked, and talked and settled on the idea that once we were married eventually (I have to finish law school, and she has to finish medical school, we're too busy for wedding bells) she'd go out to the range with me once a month to stay reliably proficient for HD/SD purposes but she'd never enjoy it and she would only get a small pocket pistol, she said my Rossi snubby .357 at the time (sold that too) was too big a gun. Well I picked up a .22lr revolver and planned to take her out to the range with it and I went ahead and brought the Ruger P90 out to get the dust out so to speak. Well I went ahead and fast fired a clip through it at fifteen yards, kept a tight five inch grouping for seven shots on a rifle target, nothing amazing for a gun I only shoot once every few months (bit my magnum bug in .357 and .44 and I can oddly keep those much tighter at 20 yards).
I turn to prep the .22lr revolver and I notice an twinkle in my fiance's eyes. She asks to shoot it and in odd and confused manner I reloaded and prepped it for her. She popped the safety off and at fifteen yards she kept a steady one shot/one second pace and kept it at about eight inches. She actually smiled and I was shocked. She asked to go again and I figured to let her go ahead the risk rocking the boat. In ten minutes she went through the rest of the 50 round box and a few 'custom' targets I had brought, (take a silohuette, reverse it and trace the outsides of playing cards six times on the target for speed run throughs with my mangum revolvers). She was really happy and she shot really well. This was all aobut nine months ago after we had been dating for well over a year and a half.
Now all she wants to shoot is my P90, I don't particularly miss or love the gun, it's just too reliable a gun to let go unlike my Pre-Braztech Rossi snubby and Arcus that I sold to my cousin both for five hundred (told her all about how I came by them and traded a RSBH back when I had three of them, didn't tell her I bought the RSBH at an estate sale for two hundred but I did my part to take her to gunbroker, auction arms, and gun shops, and told her the price I wanted was more than she could find them for but she learned to shoot on them and didn't mind the premium). When my fiance found out that I had sold my two cheapies she ripped me a new one about not selling my P90 and gave me an evil face.
Now I've tried to introduce her to the P345 slim downed DAO of the P90 but she doesn't want one ever. I've tried pointing out 1911s, Kahrs, yes even Glocks, XDs but she loves the P90. Loves it so much she frowned when I told her that the P90 was being phased out slowly for SR series.
I can't get to enjoy snubbies, pocket guns, just that P90, now she wants a shotgun and has had some luck with my 870 clone but her fixed taste just tickles me funny. My grandma was like that my grandpa told me when I told him about it. She'd only shoot and carry a Ruger Security Six 4" he'd come by on the cheap, from a buddy of his when he overhauled a motorcylce engine for him for fun. She just loved shooting .38 special out of it so I figure there must be other stories like that. Guns our women love and guns we lose.
If I could turn her onto a more CCW friendly gun I'd be happier but for now it's enough. Oh and she wants me to reload, and learn some gunsmithing so she can keep the P90 around as long as possible. I figure for a wedding present I'll pickup a few P90s.
