Hell has frozen over/ NH Shoot Related.

[Ex-MA Hole]

My wife let me in on a secret tonight. She has lined up a Babysitter for the NH THR shoot on the 5th?!?!?!?

She has been to the range twice before. Once when I begged, pleaded, and ultimately bought jewelry (bribery works). The second time was because we were going out to breakfast after, and she never got out of the car ("You said I had to go, so I went. You never said I needed to get out of the car" :banghead: )

Who has taken my wife an replaced her with a mutant zombie? Maybe I should have paid better attention to the posts on how to deal with them, eh?

I'm confused. Puzzled. And scared. Should she decide to shoot a gun, well, something is wrong. Are the stars out of alignment? What is going on?

Is this a joke? Common guys, fess up. This is a joke, right?

Yes, I will be bringing a .22, so will others.

Now, for the real issue, what happens when she out shoots me?

 

[BigSlick]

Don't worry EMH

She's probably just wanting to acquiant herself with the guns so she can decide which ones to keep in the divorce

Have you thought about just asking her point blank ?

My ex (thank goodness) wanted to go to the range with me one weekend to see if I could actually spend 10 hours at the range. She was talking to some of her female friends and it seems they planted the seed of doubt in her mind about where and 'who' I spent so much time with while I claimed to be shooting.

Being the patient sort, I took a couple of buckets for range brass, the chrono, the notebook, about a 1/2 dozen caliber of reloads and two rolls of targets. I chronoed every round, with a fresh target for every increment in powder in each caliber. After about three hours I went thru the pistol stuff and grabbed the bucket and handed her one. We picked up brass for about two hours. When done, she was ready to go.

That was great, but I reminded her that now it was time to repeat the same drill with the rifles. She looked deflated. I can't imagine why, it was only 92 miserably humid degrees.

She started whining about being hungry, sunburned and tired.

I took her home, and went back to the range

Now, I take my gf every two or three trips to the range. She is pretty interested in shooting, but hasn't 'got' it yet. She can't always remember the 4 rules (lazy brain) and really doesn't understand the whole reloading thing.

The jury is still out on whether she will get into shooting or just try to go along with me because she knows I like it so much. Either way is OK by me. On one hand it's nice to have the help picking up brass, on the other, the blatantly apparent lack of serious approach is maddening at times.

Bottom line, give it a chance, she might just turn out to be a better shooter than you are - which makes future purchases *so* much easier.

Good luck with it - and watch your six

BigSlick

 

[Dr.Who]

If she out shoots you, just smile and think of all the fun you will have going to the range with your new gun buddy over the coming years....

Believe it or not, it will be another reason to aquire more guns....

 

[Standing Wolf]

...what happens when she out shoots me?

You put in more range time.

 

[Third_Rail]

Ah, who cares? At first, Jessica was very anti-gun. Now she's the one asking to go to the range!!


Women change, hopefully the outcome will be favorable. I'll be there to see either way!



(Speaking of hell freezing over, where did our 80 degree weather go? It's 42 here right now...)

 

[Ex-MA Hole]

She has the type of personality that would be hooked- if she can get past the ingrained "guns are bad".

She has come a long way in the 5 1/2 years we've been together. She used to not want to discuss/see them. She now knows how they shoot, the difference between a revolver and a semi, how bullets works, how/ why to clean them, the 4 rules, etc. When they are out, she has this weird smile on.

It's just trying to get her past her upbringing to make that final step.

It looks like we are here.

 

[Bubbles]

Who has taken my wife an replaced her with a mutant zombie?

Maybe she's pregnant.

Hey, pregnancy's turned me into a mutant zombie, taken over by an alien being...

 

[Silent-Snail]

Well EMH I hate to break it to you, but your problem is but one sign among many that soon R'lyeh will surface, and Great Lord Cthulhu will wake once again. [Insert laugh of self satisfied movie villan of choice here]