Flashpoint
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Tuesday (3-8) my wife and I happen to have the majority of the day off together while the kids where in school (a rare thing). She wanted to go and do something, the first thing she said was go shopping. My response was where and for what. Well she didn’t really have an answer, so I suggested we go to the range. I knew what her answer would be because she fears guns, says there is too much power in them. Well I won her over by telling her she needs to learn to harness that power and use it for her and he children’s protection. I also laid on a little guilt by reminder her that I don't have many hobbies and shoting is one of them but she never goes with me.
After loading up the range stuff and my guns, which consist of a Steyr S40, Steyr S9, and a Marlin semi-auto .22, and then taking her to buy some new makeup we headed to the range.
The first thing did was get out the range’s interactive targets whilel she unloaded the range bag. I thought she would think them more fun then punching paper.
I showed her how to load the Marlin and then shot it a few time to show her that it wasn’t that load and then handed it to her. Once I realized she was closing the wrong eye when she was aiming the little lady was quit deadly with it.
After going through a couple of tubes we moved on to the pistols. I loaded up a mag of 9mm and then showed her how to handle the gun safely and how it operates. We walked out onto the range showed how to hold the gun and to stand, pointed to first big metal silhouette and said fire when ready, and dern if she didn’t hit it right between the eyes. The S9’s recoil didn’t bother her too much and after the second mag she was used to it. The only time she would miss big was when she would start using the wrong eye again (she sees a little better out of her left eye, but it still comes out to 20/20 vision since the LASIK surgery, she was legally blind). After about 40 rounds she had all she wanted, but I had noticed a big difference in her demeanor. She was a lot more relaxed on the last magazine she fired off then she was the first.
Long story short- ignorance breeds fear, knowledge is power.
I feel a lot more confidant now that if she had to use a pistol she could.
Now I just need to get a .22 pistol for her to shoot
After loading up the range stuff and my guns, which consist of a Steyr S40, Steyr S9, and a Marlin semi-auto .22, and then taking her to buy some new makeup we headed to the range.
The first thing did was get out the range’s interactive targets whilel she unloaded the range bag. I thought she would think them more fun then punching paper.
I showed her how to load the Marlin and then shot it a few time to show her that it wasn’t that load and then handed it to her. Once I realized she was closing the wrong eye when she was aiming the little lady was quit deadly with it.
After going through a couple of tubes we moved on to the pistols. I loaded up a mag of 9mm and then showed her how to handle the gun safely and how it operates. We walked out onto the range showed how to hold the gun and to stand, pointed to first big metal silhouette and said fire when ready, and dern if she didn’t hit it right between the eyes. The S9’s recoil didn’t bother her too much and after the second mag she was used to it. The only time she would miss big was when she would start using the wrong eye again (she sees a little better out of her left eye, but it still comes out to 20/20 vision since the LASIK surgery, she was legally blind). After about 40 rounds she had all she wanted, but I had noticed a big difference in her demeanor. She was a lot more relaxed on the last magazine she fired off then she was the first.
Long story short- ignorance breeds fear, knowledge is power.
I feel a lot more confidant now that if she had to use a pistol she could.
Now I just need to get a .22 pistol for her to shoot
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