Future gun owners: hippies, punks, goths, nerds and everyone else.

[JWarren]

No, a nerd would be much higher than 15

A Jr. High kid that I know and I were talking about on-line games. While he was telling me about one he plays, I told him that I was a "Dork" because I only liked the "Dungeons and Dragons-like" games.

He proceeded to tell me that I wasn't a dork until...

I told him that when I was his age, if we wanted to play a game like that, we had to use pencils, paper, and roll dice.

He responded... OK... you ARE a dork.


sigh...


-- John

 

[General Geoff]

I'm only a 9th level Rifleman.. last feat I took was Manyshot.

 

[Brian Dale]

And Oleg hits another one out of the park.

Minor suggestion: "So will the future gun owners."

could be smoother without the word "the," thus:

"So will future gun owners."

 

[Tribal]

If you look closely, the young lady with the rifle is clearly a left-winger...

 

[silverlance]

suggestion: More of a goth girl. as in black lipstick, dark eyeshadow, piercings. this girl is good, but lacks a little authenticity.

 

[TBeck]

Yeah, but that's the beauty of the FS2000, it doesn't matter which wing you shoot with.

I had a cognitive dissonance moment last year while visiting my sister-in-law in Canada. While driving between Kingston and Ottawa, we stopped in a small, very rural town. I went inside a convenience store to buy some snacks for the family. The clerk was a young woman who was totally punked out. I prepared myself for a surly encounter, but she was just about the nicest person you could ask to meet...just like the rest of the Canadians I interacted with.

 

[Oleg Volk]

this girl is good, but lacks a little authenticity

I assure you, she looks that was in real life

I didn't think it necessary to goth her out more.

 

[DragonRider]

There is a very interesting poll on Facebook about the 2nd amendment. I was A surprised by how many people said it was an individual right, and B going through and seeing their profile pictures was very interesting.

http://www.facebook.com/politics/debate.php?id=10699148367&ref=mf

John

 

[Wopasaurus]

I have a ton of tattoos and a college degree. Haha, most people don't usually see them because I wear long sleeves 9 out of 10 times.

It sucks when I do wear short sleeves around gun shops/ranges, because I always get mean-mugged. And if I'll ask to see like a Mossberg or AK from the wall, I always get looks and sheisty questions like, "do you even know how to fire this?".

Last time that happened, I asked to see an AR, and I got a presumptuous and rude question like that... so I just completely field stripped it with pieces all over the counter, and said, "no clue", and just walked away.

 

[Crunker1337]

It would be good if we could get together a bunch of very diverse gun owners and take a photo of that.
Hip hop fans, goths, emos, punks, hippies, nerds, preps, etc

 

[Tom Servo]

Heck, my first thoughts were, "those glasses are a bit small for adequate eye protection, the fishnets might get caught on something, and she might want to tie the braids down a bit, but at least she wore comfortable shoes."

I've taught folks who look far more...individual than that. As long as they're safe, I'm cool. Many are a lot of fun.

The current generation coming of age was reared during the First Clinton Regime (I was raised under Reagan), and they've been fed the "no decent person has guns" hogwash so zealously that they find it very suspect. Handling guns seems to be the "nonconformist" thing in their generation.

So, if responsible shooting is the new "mosh pit," cool with me. I get to come off as the hip professor

 

[hso]

Oleg, very cool!

Guys at the gunshow's locally started wearing Aloha shirts after I kept setting up and wearing my orange Aloha, shorts and green Crocs. I guess they got tired of everyone looking for me and walking past them. See even gunnies can change.

 

[Packman]

I love busting up stereotypes.

Especially at the range. More than once I've seen people do a double take when I stand there in a Cowboy hat and a duster, shooting a single action revolver and then moving into an AK.

I took my (very) asian girlfriend out trapshooting with me. there was one dude that was not pleased when she handed his butt to him rather handily.

Nice posters, Oleg.

 

[rero360]

I hope she's not emo, it'd be a waste for such a good looking woman to be emo, lol. Seriously though, good work Oleg.

 

[loose cannon]

mr volk hits another out of the park!


i kinda dress like the the tactical guy in his poster,but,turn on my xm radio and you will find my number 1 music channel is ch82 "the system".it plays music the lady in the poster would probably recognize.

 

[Vaarok]

I concur, excellent poster, and screwing with people who claim to be enlightened by breaking stereotypes and stereotypical behaviour patterns over their head is fun.

Then again I'm a clean-cut farmkid who goes to gunshows in a button-front plaid shirt and jeans.

 

[smullen]

I'd shoot with her....

In all seriousness, I'd shoot with about anyone as long as they stay safe...

 

[atek3]

As a gun instructor that used to live in Berkeley California, i've taken some gals that weren't exactly "young republicans":

paper targets and metal spinners beware:


statement of fact, most girls don't like the FAL, she however did:


when the revolution comes, there will be floral prints


(no sexist comments please)

atek3

 

[Brian Dale]

when the revolution comes, there will be floral prints

I think that that woman needs an M1.

Good work, sir.

Unrequested coaching: when you're a stick, perhaps like her and definitely like me, then standing up straight helps one to deal more effectively with recoil. That's not meant as a shot at you as her sensei; it's just my experience as a skinny person.

 

[smullen]

ateck3, what type gun and scope is she holding in 1st pic???

 

[grimjaw]

JWarren, especially the Emo kids.

jm

 

[Oleg Volk]

Emo is a response to not feeling in control of own destiny. RKBA is part on the empowerment necessary to remedy that lack.

 

[taliv]

took me a minute to figure out that was a grenade she was throwing. my first thought was she was tossing her own aerial targets either because she was that good, or because oleg got tired...

 

[The Tourist]

When I first met my wife she was in high school, coming from a liberal suburban area. She had never fired any type of a fiream or ridden on any form of motorycle.

In fact, I think the first few times she came to the target range with me she just watched.

Like anything else, if you hang around something long enough, it rubs off. All of my friends ride and a large majority of my clients are in law enforcement.

She began slowly, and even "adopted" a gun I had purchased when I was clearly out of my mind. It is/was and continues to be her favorite piece, an older nickel plated Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 SPL.

As time went one, she got into SW J-frames and I urged her to try the smaller Colt .380 Government to get her accustomed to 1911 style pistols. Because she is left-handed, she doesn't like the brass flying past her face, but she still shoots them very well.

She'd rather go to Vegas to gamble, but I do know I annouce my entry to our home in a loud and distinct voice if I arrive at an unanticipated time...

 

[atek3]

Unrequested coaching: when you're a stick, perhaps like her and definitely like me, then standing up straight helps one to deal more effectively with recoil. That's not meant as a shot at you as her sensei; it's just my experience as a skinny person.

No Doubt... When I give them the big sticks the first thing I do is say, "lean in to it, more, more, almost there, now lean into it somemore."

Also, I teach other positions than offhand... kneeling and barracade are favorites. This is one shooting clays on the berm at 50 yards:

atek3, what type gun and scope is she holding in 1st pic???

Harrington and Richardson M12, with a Bushnell Elite 4200 6-24x scope with the viani scope mount.

atek3