Do you have a shooting buddy?

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On another thread I made mention of a friend and I getting into shooting together and I was wondering if others here have had the same experiances.

He and I had been good mates for about 5 years already and after he decided to buy a .40 Barretta we slowly built up pretty impressive arsenals each and we are still good friends and shoot together whenever we get the chance (we live about 200 miles apart now). We tend to feed off one another, when he gets something new, I get inspired to find something that I like to buy- it's a great way to find firearms you like. We both tend to go for battle rifles, but he tends to prefer older, more traditional designs (FAL, M1A...) while I like to go for newer designs (AUG, 86S, 180B), but we both share a strong interest in C&R rifles (the Great and Grand Garand)

Shooting seems to be a great sport that 2 friends can do together than is entirely balanced and heavily skill based, but that friends can do together, talk, and still enjoy.

Also, it seems whenever I am at the range, I always meet great people who like to shoot eachothers rifles and just talk and share ideas and news; I just find it amazing how many nice people there are out there in the shooting world (and also how many jerks...but that's a different story).
 
My son-in-law and I go together as aften as we can. You're right, it's fun and we get to spend some time together. Gives the wives time to run around and shop. :)
 
Yup.

My lil' shooting buddy. She's got a 9th birthday coming up and we've got a Ruger bearcat on the wish list. :D
 

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Used to. S'umbitch moved on me :)

I didn't realize how much I enjoyed shooting with him until he moved. Not only my shooting buddy but my best gunshow buddy! Arrghh.........
 
I used to have quite a few. They either passed on , moved away or something else.

Access to some private areas, are no more. Assisting with teaching and CCW ended some time ago when the folks closed up. I feel bad the ladies and the kids don't have the access anymore - kinda feel more sad about this for them moreso than for myself.

My decison to go to school had folks drop me like I had leprosy. Others got married, divorced or decided they hated my guts for politics, RKBA or other reason.

Some folks that used to gather to do informal training...I dunno what happened, I decided to be true to myself, my ethics and such and not worry about them. They got to thinking this "gun stuff" was stupid ( or the women in their lives did perhaps) , and really surprised me with their attitude.

Now- I really don't seem to have any...about the only one is a fellow that does some smithin' and this amounts to going out back and shooting at his place.

*shrug* Doing stuff by myself is nothing new. I ever start get around folks again - I won't know how to behave.

Fact is - I have more 'true friends' , via THR/ TFL than I do family and folks here where I was born , raised and reside.
 
Yeah -- he goes by the name "Shootin' Buddy" on THR. :D

Buddy's the one who got me into shooting in the first place and taught me the basics. He urged me to take a formal class very early on, and has helped me pick out most the guns I own. In return, when I noticed that he cycled through carry guns about as often as most people change socks, I talked him into trying a G26 like mine. Lo and behold, he's had the same gun on his belt for a coupla years now, so it must've been a good call.

Funniest part of the whole story is that up until last year my husband didn't shoot at all and never came to the range with me. I didn't (and don't) like to shoot alone, so when I went shooting, I usually had Buddy with me. So all the folks I knew from the range simply assumed Buddy was my husband. When Buddy and I finally got my husband talked into coming up to the range with us and introduced him to people, there were a lot of really puzzled looks. Fortunately, my husband's a wonderful man and wasn't a bit fazed, just very amused.

pax
 
My Dad has always had guns but it's my friend Kamicosmos that got me INTO shooting. I can't stand a range day alone but will do it if I need to. (Like testing some reloads today).
 
the only time i shoot WITH someone is when phantom warrior and myself go out to throw lead, he's the only one i shoot with. otherwise im teaching folks to shoot.
 
You betcha - shooting by yourself is ok, but shooting with friends is FUN.

My main shooting buddy, Dan, and I carpool to the range regularly for IDPA matches and rifle practice. We'll time each other on shooting drills, spot for each other at long range, and coach each other - that way, we can each IMPROVE our skills during our time at the range, instead of just putting brass on the ground.

Plus, it's also just plain cool to let your friend shoot that new gun you just got, that you're so proud of, and then talk about it afterwards.

Bottom line, shooting with the right shooting buddy is MORE than twice as good as shooting alone.
 
If I go with someone it's usually my wife. Over the years it's been that either I move away from my friends who I shot with or they move away from me, or we both move away at the same time. Military does that to you.
 
I've got one that I can consistently count on.

It's actually pretty amazing how we can fill in the gaps in our lack of knowledge in some areas.

Me--competitive shotgun nut (skeet/trap/sporting), IDPA shooter (master class), aspiring rifleman
Him--hunting shotgun nut (waterfowl, upland), IMHSA competitor, and a natural with a rifle.

We complement each other so well it's uncanny. He's slowly getting more and more into pistol and I'm slowly getting more and more into rifles. We both reload a lot, but totally different aspects of the scene. If one of us doesn't know something, I guarantee the other one does.

We also collect cartridges. When I go to gunshows, I always buy 2 of all the oddball cartridges....same goes for him. Sometimes I wake up to a 5-gal bucket of brass on my doorstep. ;) Sometimes a ziploc is tied to my door handle with some odd cartridge and the only note is, "You have two days..." I do my best to stump him, but he's a very smart guy.

Ed
 
I'm married to mine also, 25 years now.

Like YammyMonkey, being former career military makes it nearly impossible to maintain long term relationships. My best friend from the Marines lives 1300 miles away, but we talk several times a week via cell phone. He's as much into guns as I am. He gave me an 8 3/8" S&W 29-2 for my 50th Bday.

I wholeheartedly second the comments about shooting with a buddy vs. shooting alone.

I started shooting IPSC last August, but haven't met anyone I "click" with yet. Each of the 3 clubs I've been to are over 100 mi from my house, so that's a damper. I'm kinda beginning to establish a relationship with my local gun dealer; he's a retired NG guy so we have a lot in common. I've spent $1,500 in his store in the past 6 months, so that oughta help! :rolleyes:
 
I like most of you, have a few. The one I shoot the most with is Techbrute from THR.

Other than him, I have a group of buddies that get together and shoot. Working on getting my fiance to be my shooting buddy too. She likes it, we just have a hard time getting a babysitter so we can go together.
 
Used to shoot every weekend with a good friend and coworker to see who bought the beer. Pretty well matched so neither of us took advantage and the element of competition and good-natured ribbing made it more fun. Unfortunately, he moved to Houston and I moved to Omaha so we could only get together a couple of times a year.

Since moving back to TN, I started shooting with a group of guys who meet at my farm. Shoot mostly trap and pistol about once a month. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon . . . tune the radio to NASCAR or a football game, shoot a couple of boxes of ammo, then have a cold adult beverage AFTER the guns are cleaned and put away (house rules).

"It don't get no better than this."
 
Nope! Haven't shot a long arm in over 25 years!

Fired the old trusty M1911 about year 1995 and that's it. Though I own probably 30 rifles and half a dozen shotguns, can't even get myself interested enough to go shooting than to have a "buddy". It's wintery now and cold, so even more excuse to stay indoors sipping coffee and eating donuts alone without a buddy..
 
My cousin, my brother, a college friend and my 1911 are all shooting buddies of mine.

The 1911's always with me when I'm shooting, the other three try to attend as often as possible, one of them is with me at the range probably 50% of the time.

Kharn
 
I had my first shooting buddy for about two years. He was always willing to go shooting with me, as long as we were using my guns and shooting my ammo.

He'd bring one gun with him and one box of ammo, so that when he ran out, I'd let him use what I had. The problem was, he never compensated me. I realized that he had a habit of scamming his way through life like that, and I have virtually severed ties with him.

My current shooting buddy is another story. I got him into guns, and he has surpassed me in one year, both in knowledge and size of his collection. We go up to my hunting land 4-5 times per year and spend the whole weekend shooting.
 
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