Girl With a Big Gun Videos

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

Do these piss anyone else off too?

You've all seen one. There must be a million on Youtube alone. Some get more links than others, like the girl with the Desert Eagle. They're mostly the same. Guy has the camera. Girl has a big gun that she's never fired before. Guy is giggling while she fidgets with the gun, clearly holding it improperly, he watches giggling, and they always end the same. Girl gets smacked in the face with the scope, or drops the handgun, or gets knocked over by the shotgun.

What's your take on these videos? Harmless fun? Or blatant disregard for safety? Personally, they just piss me off.

 

[rbernie]

Me, too. They are boorish and uncool, in every possible way.

Oh - and we'll NOT all immediately rush to YooToob to go find the most eggegious instance we can find and post the link here. No links.

OK?

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

Trust me, I've seen a million too many of those stupid videos and am in no hurry to share them with people.

 

[LoneStarWings]

No links.

Might as well just lock the thread now then.

 

[Erik M]

I like the video of a lady shooting a 454 casul, arms bent and both hands around the grip she literally gets pushed backwards.

 

[The Wiry Irishman]

Every time I see one, I'm really tempted to make my own version to post.

Guy has the camera. Girl has a big gun that she's never fired before. Guy encourages girl to remember the basics while she fidgets with the gun, coaches her with her grip, tells her to not be nervous. BANG! Nothing exciting happens. Girl starts smiling. BANG BANG BANG.

I think that would serve as an excellent counterpoint to the typical girl with gun videos. I've done it a few times, albeit never with a camera. The best part is when some huge guy at the range sees a girl half his size competently firing a gun he was too nervous to try twenty minutes prior.

 

[Quoheleth]

What's your take on these videos? Harmless fun? Or blatant disregard for safety? Personally, they just piss me off.

"Harmless" fun? Ask the poor woman who has Magnum Eye, a now-incurable flinch, and has become an anti and who thinks her SO is a royal SOB for doing this to her -- and having the audacity to post it for the world to see!

It's not the safety so much - although it is a subcurrent. It's the disrespect for someone new to the sport. If you were teaching a kid to play baseball, you wouldn't have them catch a Nolan Ryan fastball or try to hit a Randy Johnson heater. You wouldn't teach him to tackle by sending him against Reggie White. You start out slow...or else risk making an enemy of the sport - whatever it is - for life.

Found out that part of the reason my wife hates guns is she saw two guys chasing after an armadillo, screaming like banshees and shooting at it with .22s. It took "a lot of shooting" before the animal finally died. She associates guns with that kind of poor sportsmanship.

Honestly, I don't even like the video of the dude getting pole-axed by the .500 rifle. It just isn't cool.

No, give me a video of a dad teaching his teen to shoot correctly & safely with a .22, 9mm, .38, or .223. Then, a couple minutes of footage of the kid hitting his/her target accurately and repeatedly. Then, a couple minutes of the kid cleaning the clock of some loud-mouth wannabe 20-something at the range. Now *there's* entertainment.

Q

 

[kyo]

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[Mags]

Not funny at all, I can't believe what people would do to their friend or significant other. Way to get your wife/girlfriend interested in our hobby by letting that big magnum hit her in the face. Yeah that will go well....

 

[doc2rn]

The only ones that I thought where ok was when the men where shooting that honkin huge rifle. The rest just turn people away from wanting to learn about weapons and proper use and function. He wouldn't have laughed so hard if someone really got hurt ie: dropped it after the shot and the second one goes off (after hitting the ground) and goes through him. C.S.S.!

 

[kyo]

I agree, it is mean.

 

[gunnutery]

It seems disrespectful and such videos are not helping expand our sport to new people. I enjoy the ones where instead the giggling guy at the camera has a wife/girlfriend that actaully handles the gun well (especially bigger calibers) and hits the target most of the time to his astonishment. The joke is on the camera man.

Let's teach people respectfully and safely.

 

[chuckusaret]

IMO the video clips show how stupid some people are when it comes to gun safety, but most of all shows how some people show complete disregard for someone else’s safety. I would never let a family member, friend or even my worst enemy handle a weapon that they have not received some type of instruction/training on. I don't think the video clips are a representation of the majority of shooters but only the stupidity of a few. We have no children allowed on our range like the ones in the videos.

 

[Truthseeker]

Why anyone would find it humorous when someone gets hurt handling a firearm is beyond me. We all pride ourselves on our responsible knowledge of guns, yet people think it's funny when a novice is injured. Grow up.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

They are stupid and encourage more anti's hollering.

 

[bensdad]

I love the 577 T-rex vids. I also love the one where the woman is messing with a 1911 (I think), and her hubby lights some firecrackers behind her. The "thing that happened" wasn't the funny part. Her reaction was. As far as the rest go (female noob shoots ubergun), I hate those. There are a few that even have women crying in them.

 

[Frank Ettin]

I saw this sort of nonsense live and in person once at a range I frequent. It was a few years ago. The guy was going to teach his GF to shoot and of course brought out the obligatory Desert Eagle, this time in .44 Magnum. The GF, who probably has never fired a gun before, has the predictable negative experience, will probably never try to fire a gun again and most likely joined the Brady Campaign first thing the next morning.

But now BF decides to show (perhaps "former" at this point) GF how it's done. He lets go 6 rounds at a standard NRA timed fire target set 10 yards out. And the closest our intrepid instructor got to the black was the 7 ring.

 

[AStone]

Another vote for disgusted.

I can't believe what people would do to their friend or significant other.

Unfortunately, I can.

That's what we have devolved to.

People who do that are total jerks.

 

[bottom shelf]

Why anyone would find it humorous when someone gets hurt handling a firearm is beyond me.

Right on. The stupidity is sad, but it's the laughing during and afterward that really get my blood boiling.

Also sad are that my shooting buddies think they're hilarious. I guess I need new people to shoot with.

 

[longdayjake]

When I was in the academy there was a young and very small girl probably just barely 21. She was the type that wanted to prove that she could do everything a man could do. She used offensive sexual language because thats what the guys would do. She drank until she puked on the weekends because thats what the guys would do. She tried to drive faster and brake harder to show off to the guys. It kind of got a little bit annoying everyday watching her make a fool of herself so that she could "fit in." She did okay proving herself until it came time to qualify with the shotguns. Even though we were instructed on how to stand and hold the shotguns so as to take the recoil, she refused to listen to any advice because she was "tough." The first time she shot the 00 buck it about knocked her on her can. By then it was too late for her to learn the easy way with her shoulder already hurting. After 10 shots of buckshot the tears were freely streaming down her face and she had the saddest grimmace of pain I have ever seen at a gun range. When the slugs came around she couldn't hold back any more and openly sobbed before she even shot one. Though it was a humbling situation that she probably needed, I would never wish that on someone else. I weigh about 190 and my shoulder wasn't happy after that range session. I can only imagine how she must have felt. She couldn't have weighed much more than 100 lbs. No one was laughing when she walked away before qualifying. I think she finished qualifying another day, but I don't believe she ever got a job for a department. I doubt she will ever shoot a shotgun again unless she absolutely has to. Turns out she took the OC better than any of us though.

 

[Vonderek]

It was funny when Wile E. Coyote had the dynamite blow up in his paw. But that was when I was seven. The jackasses that purposely injure someone for laughs are sick and probably emotionally underdeveloped.

 

[macro01]

they just want to sell their videos with girls with large breast holding guns

 

[PTK]

Guy has the camera. Girl has a big gun that she's never fired before. Guy encourages girl to remember the basics while she fidgets with the gun, coaches her with her grip, tells her to not be nervous. BANG! Nothing exciting happens. Girl starts smiling. BANG BANG BANG.

I think that would serve as an excellent counterpoint to the typical girl with gun videos. I've done it a few times, albeit never with a camera. The best part is when some huge guy at the range sees a girl half his size competently firing a gun he was too nervous to try twenty minutes prior.

How about a girl more than a year ago with a PGO 12ga... having fun and not getting hurt?


BASIC instruction would prevent these sorts of injuries...

 

[Hillbillyz]

I have heard several guys say giving there GF a gun she couldn't handle was there way of discouraging the lady from going near a gun or range again. Then they could have time by themselves with their buddies. It has always seemed to me that they really don't care much for the GF, that and like people have said one more anti gun candidate.

 

[W L Johnson]

was there way of discouraging the lady from going near a gun or range again.

I can't understand why they wouldn't want their GF at the range too. My ex-wife wouldn't come within 10 miles of a range. I would be happy as a clam if my GF/wife wanted to share my hobby, if I only had one (GF that is)