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I have officially converted an anti-gunny to a gun lover! A little background:
My girlfriend has always had an inept fear of guns due to a childhood friend of her family taking his own life with an AD from daddy's shotgun. I have been trying for the past three years to get her to go to the range with me and go shoot but was never able to get her to crack her fear. Then she finally agreed on going but we could never get our schedule's and the range's to co-exist (I live in the suburbs with no land to go shoot at nearby). So today we finally get the planets to line up and we go to the range.
Well she was cool about going with me but was still saying she might not shoot, she's just going to watch me. Then she mustered up the courage after I rented her a Ruger .22 pistol. Once I quickly ran through the 4 rules and showed her how to handle the pistol and its controls, I loaded it up. Well, when it came time to shoot, she again backed down with fear (I could see her fear in her eyes and demeanor). So I just took it easy and told her I would shoot it first. So I took a magzine worth of shots and then coerced her into taking her turn. With hesitance, she took the gun from me and proceeded to take 7 straight head shots at the target followed by three COM hits
She ran through the 50 rounds of .22 in maybe 10-15 minutes in that Ruger pistol.
Then I asked her if she wanted to shoot my 702 Plinkster. She gave me the look of fear again because its a 'big' gun. So I did the same thing and she watched me shoot off the 10-round magazine and then overcame her fear again and loaded the magazine with two round, slipped it in the receiver and began to take her position. She was trembling thinking this was going to hurt (Its a .22 rifle, and yes I tried explaining to her how it won't recoil even as hard as the pistol, but she didn't get at first) but had the courage to pull that trigger and proceeded to throw down a five rounds worth of head shots! Including two overlapping shots
Now the only thing I am worried about is when she asks me to buy a gun for her. It's gonna be a challenge to find a gun for a girl who is 5'1" and maybe 120 lbs with tiny hands! Oh yeah, and she's already asking me when can we go again to the range because we forgot to leave with her range safety card.
Damian
My girlfriend has always had an inept fear of guns due to a childhood friend of her family taking his own life with an AD from daddy's shotgun. I have been trying for the past three years to get her to go to the range with me and go shoot but was never able to get her to crack her fear. Then she finally agreed on going but we could never get our schedule's and the range's to co-exist (I live in the suburbs with no land to go shoot at nearby). So today we finally get the planets to line up and we go to the range.
Well she was cool about going with me but was still saying she might not shoot, she's just going to watch me. Then she mustered up the courage after I rented her a Ruger .22 pistol. Once I quickly ran through the 4 rules and showed her how to handle the pistol and its controls, I loaded it up. Well, when it came time to shoot, she again backed down with fear (I could see her fear in her eyes and demeanor). So I just took it easy and told her I would shoot it first. So I took a magzine worth of shots and then coerced her into taking her turn. With hesitance, she took the gun from me and proceeded to take 7 straight head shots at the target followed by three COM hits
She ran through the 50 rounds of .22 in maybe 10-15 minutes in that Ruger pistol. Then I asked her if she wanted to shoot my 702 Plinkster. She gave me the look of fear again because its a 'big' gun. So I did the same thing and she watched me shoot off the 10-round magazine and then overcame her fear again and loaded the magazine with two round, slipped it in the receiver and began to take her position. She was trembling thinking this was going to hurt (Its a .22 rifle, and yes I tried explaining to her how it won't recoil even as hard as the pistol, but she didn't get at first) but had the courage to pull that trigger and proceeded to throw down a five rounds worth of head shots! Including two overlapping shots
Now the only thing I am worried about is when she asks me to buy a gun for her. It's gonna be a challenge to find a gun for a girl who is 5'1" and maybe 120 lbs with tiny hands! Oh yeah, and she's already asking me when can we go again to the range because we forgot to leave with her range safety card.
Damian