How Does Your Significant Other Feel About Shooting?

[Stolly]

Thanks alot ReadyontheRight. My wife was reading over my shoulder and now she wants a pink gun just like the one in your picture. So, for her sake, what kind/where/how/how much? If I may ask.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Whatever

I'm the only one who shoots. She might if she could, but she still wouldn't be the die-hard I am. Still, she lets me do whatever with my guns and sometimes even asks why I haven't been to the range lately.

 

[Art Eatman]

My wife likes her Model 36, her Winchester Model 63 and her double-barrelled .410. She leaves my critters alone.

Good wife!

, Art

 

[Sharps Shooter]

I've been told there's a bar in town that's clear full of "elk season widows" come October.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

I voted the "she won't give my 1911 back" even though it was a S&W M10 she took. I even bought her a Ladysmith to get it back but the Ladysmith is "too pretty" to keep in the kitchen.

She has bought me a Garand (nicest one I've ever seen, Oct. 1942) and a M1 Carbine (again, Winchester, 1940, all correct) as gifts.

She was a AA Unlimited shooter in IHMSA back in the early 80's.

Her idea of the perfect weekend is three days at the Whittington Center.

I guess I got lucky, eh?

 

[mokster]

My wife is kind of whatever on guns. She does go shooting with me some and has her own little 22 revolver. However for Christmas I did get 2 Mosin Nagent rifles. She also likes the idea Im armed when something is going on around the neighborhood,but she doesnt want to get her own ccw. She also doesnt understand why I need all these different handguns( like the s&w 500 I need to get now)

 

[Hardtarget]

Even though she won't often go shooting with me and won't shoot much at all she is a pretty good shot.She is pro gun and several times she has suddenly been in condition ORANGE...thats when I hear a "quiet urgency" as I'm asked if I "have my gun". Still, she will not get her carry permit. Now...back to the thread. Shooting is my thing and she does not interfere. I've bought more guns the past six months than the previous twenty five years. Part of that is I don't go overboard buying, don't go to the range every day or sulk for weeks on end just because I don't have the "latest, greatest" on the market. We fit together very well and have for 33 years.
Mark.

 

[stevelyn]

I get booted out the door in the fall and told not to come back until I get a moose. Athabascan girls rock.

 

[C-grunt]

My wife is in the whatever catagory. She did not grow up around firearms and her mother is somewhat anti-gun. The mother-in-law has come around a little, she doesnt care if i have my guns there, since I am the best thing since sliced bread compared to my wifes ex's (cons and dealers). I did get my wife a walther p22 which she enjoys shooting. When i bought a XD 9mm to introduce her to larger calibers, I found out that she preferred my 1911. Even though she can shoot very well, likes it, and knows firearms safety, she still vows to never get her CCW. Hopefully she comes around, but she is supportive of my lifestyle.

 

[testar77]

My wife won't touch em

she is not an anti, she is afraid of them, although she has never had any reason to be. It is something that I am slowly working on.

 

[unixguy]

My wife has (for a number of years, even before I purchased our first gun) expressed an interest in shooting, but has not yet taken me up on any invitations to go.

 

[NIGHTWATCH]

She was from the philippines. Fearful of weapons. And no matter what I did to win here over on the subject of the 2A she just dug in deeper against it. We had a huge fight after I showed her "Innocents Betrayed". "Why did you show me that!!??" she said. She was upset because the film got under here skin.

After a long seven year relationship, engagement and countless rules and conditions for marriage, it ended last november. We had other issues but I will never forget the words she spoke to me that made my blood boil and what broke the camels back ...." Oh, and your Guns have to go."

The Guns stayed, she left.

 

[Mongo the Mutterer]

My fiance and I just completed a CCW course and are being licensed. I'm glad she has my six.

 

[Fred Fuller]

Re. the poll, NOTA. She has her own guns, no need to purloin mine. As to shooting, she complains we don't get to go enough and wants her own pistol range here on the place. It's planned, we just have to work out the mechanics of it now and get the berm built.

lpl/nc

 

[Joe D]

My wife shoots IDPA and IPSC matches with me. She is an upper level Sharpshooter in IDPA. Heck, she even reloads her own bullets.
She shoots a Glock 34 in competition and carries a G23.

 

[redneck2]

My wife worked overtime and sold back vacation to buy me a 1873 Colt SAA, a Browning BPCR in .45-90, and a Uberti 1866 Yellowboy .44-40

I have a great picture of her shooting her S&W .22. She had never touched a firearm until we got married.

FWIW...if you love to shoot and your mate doesn't, you're in for some rough times. This would only be one indication of incompatability. Having been thru several trade-ins in the marriage department, take my advice that it's quite expensive to upgrade.

When I was between wives, some of the first things I asked about were the big "no-no's"....politics, religion, and guns. Gonna come up sooner or later. May as well get it taken care of right up front. Lot easier and WAY cheaper to cut it off after one date than years of marriage.

 

[slowworm]

My wife has a problem with my guns.

I don't have enough of them.

So far I have lost an AR-15, a tricked out 10/22, a CZ-52 and a Ruger MKII. If I ask nicely I might get to use them.

 

[Greg L]

Somewhere between the first & second options. She's claimed a couple of pistols as "mine" as soon as they've come in the door. Others she couldn't care less about so I get to keep them .

She grew up in an anti/neutral home (much like I did except mine was hardcore anti) but is now fully over to the Dark Side .

 

[Len]

Mine was brought up with guns...her dad was a retired firefighter, became a gentleman farmer, who hunted and reloaded for years.

She got her first and last deer with a shotgun at the age of ten. First time I went to her house after we started dating...she was a little embarrassed to have left her .38 snub on the kitchen counter...in the process of putting it away after cleaning. [I keep reminding her that I firmly believe she was making a statement of some sort! ]

She would never buy me any gun...because, although she may know what I have on the list as a next purchase, she just doesn't know "how to shop" for them.

She shoots every gun I/we have...and is quite good [thanks to dad for all those early years of training and encouragement], but the only one she does not enjoy shooting is the .41. It's just not fun for her, and I understand that.

 

[Old NFO]

my GF is active duty Navy, and has qualified expert pistol (with a .45) and expert rifle
She doesn't carry daily because she works in the five sided puzzle palace, but she "likes" the fact that I carry and we do go to the range on a regular basis. Her nightstand gun is a Ladysmith but she will shoot anything and on any given day,, outshoots me :banghead:

 

[Sam Adams]

My wife isn't anti, not by a long stretch. However, I know that she resents the Hell out of me spending time shooting, reloading or cleaning my guns. It is a function of us having 2 small kids - that and her very controlling nature. I love her - a lot - but I can't stand how she does this. It has caused a bunch of fights, as in when she said this past Sunday (as I got back from the range a whole 1/2 hour late), "Your not going out there for a looooong time." That really pi$$es me off, since shooting is the only damned thing that I like to do with my spare time (other than be a couch potato, which I usually do with her). It is my great stress-reliever, and I just don't know what to do.

I guess that she thinks the guns are a rival of some type. The irony is that if she let me go more often, I'd be able to release a lot more stress and be a better hubby.

 

[Gunnutz13]

My wife...

just retired after 27 years in the US ARMY, with the rank of Sargeant Major from the Criminal Investigation Division ( CID ) out of Fort Belvior in Virginia. Her mission was Afganistan and GITMO. She has qualified expert with both the M16 and M9, has been awarded Master Fitness in PT, and has competed in biathalons ( run & shoot ). Gotta love a woman who can fire and field strip any weapon in "our" arsenal.

 

[dakotasin]

my wife shoots on occasion... here's a couple shots of her. when she finally demonstrated an ability to be safe w/ a rifle and a desire to do so, we went rabbit hunting. she's got my 10-22.

the other pic is her learning to shoot centerfire rifles. that's a ruger 77 w/ bipod. eventually, she went prairie doggin' w/ this rifle.

she was an anti before we met. she was biased slightly against gun ownership and heavily against hunting.

next week, she's going to make another prairie dog trip w/ me, and fire the ar-15 for the first time. she owns her own 223, 20 ga, and 357, so i'd say she turned the corner!

she doesn't shoot much, but she does occasionally ask to go to the range or to a dog town... she's hunted ducks, geese, pheasants, prairie dogs, and rabbits w/ me. she refuses to hunt antelope, deer, or elk though. oh well, take the victories where ya can get 'em.

 

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

RotR, whoever owns that thing needs to find a pink sling.

- pd

 

[longtooth]

2 Signifcants

Mom & Wife. Both go to the range. Shoot. Carry 24-7. Mom even reloads w/ me. Wife ain't got there yet. Mom 75 in Aug & still loves it. Slowed down a little but loves it. Wife literally loves my 1911. Shoot it every time we go. Just too big for her to carry. Boy am I glad. Where is it when you need it. Help help. Get him honey. Love both of'em. They that love liberty more than life die only once. They that fear death more than oppression die every time they close their eyes. Me.