yesterdaysyouth
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went down to visit the granny today and she told me about how around 15 houses within 3 miles of her place, and mine, had been broken into in the last week, meds were being stolen.... i then proceeded to rattle off some names, it's small town usa what can i say....
she brought up the idea of getting a pistol from one of her kids, and then quoted her late husband "you're better off without a gun if you don't know how to use it"... which i'll agree with that, but it just sounded like a cry for some instruction to me... i probally wouldn't have thought anything of it had that been the last time she brought it up, but it happened twice more within 2 hours...
like i said this is smalltown usa, and guns are nothing uncommon around her, but you can tell she's uneasy when me and my uncle start playing with our toys in the backard.... for years her husband was a hunter and reloader, but for the most part all long guns... he might have had one 38 rossi that i remember....
she knows that i carry and she's seen most of my handguns at one time or another.... imagine how cool it'd be to see your granny holstered up at the christmas dinner...
so im thinking i'll just so happen to have everything in the car to do some range time, and bring up that im goning to go shoot, and tell her that she should shoot with me, maybe she could learn something new, then pump up her ego, tell her about old dogs and new tricks or something like that and see if i can't end up lighting off some rounds with her in the backyard....
i'd probally go hardcore once i got her to go along with it... i'd break out the lawbooks, rules, and some other paperwork and then do some intro on design of revolvers and self chuckers, stances holds, blah blah blah, use that ego again tell her anything worth doing is worth doing right..... then do some dryfire and finally pinup some paper plates... and then wash, rinse, repeat, about every month or so....
i'd probally let her use my 66 until she got something of her own, probally start her out on that and my neos... the 66 with .38 is pretty recoil-less, and the neos is just loud.... i know my uncle would join us, maybe some cousins, it be the waltons with firepower!!! i'd love to see her jump on my uncle when she seen his finger on the trigger .. that'd be a riot.....
so im throwing this up here for suggestions, im sure someone else here has done something similar with a family member... so lets hear it...
she brought up the idea of getting a pistol from one of her kids, and then quoted her late husband "you're better off without a gun if you don't know how to use it"... which i'll agree with that, but it just sounded like a cry for some instruction to me... i probally wouldn't have thought anything of it had that been the last time she brought it up, but it happened twice more within 2 hours...
like i said this is smalltown usa, and guns are nothing uncommon around her, but you can tell she's uneasy when me and my uncle start playing with our toys in the backard.... for years her husband was a hunter and reloader, but for the most part all long guns... he might have had one 38 rossi that i remember....
she knows that i carry and she's seen most of my handguns at one time or another.... imagine how cool it'd be to see your granny holstered up at the christmas dinner...
so im thinking i'll just so happen to have everything in the car to do some range time, and bring up that im goning to go shoot, and tell her that she should shoot with me, maybe she could learn something new, then pump up her ego, tell her about old dogs and new tricks or something like that and see if i can't end up lighting off some rounds with her in the backyard....
i'd probally go hardcore once i got her to go along with it... i'd break out the lawbooks, rules, and some other paperwork and then do some intro on design of revolvers and self chuckers, stances holds, blah blah blah, use that ego again tell her anything worth doing is worth doing right..... then do some dryfire and finally pinup some paper plates... and then wash, rinse, repeat, about every month or so....
i'd probally let her use my 66 until she got something of her own, probally start her out on that and my neos... the 66 with .38 is pretty recoil-less, and the neos is just loud.... i know my uncle would join us, maybe some cousins, it be the waltons with firepower!!! i'd love to see her jump on my uncle when she seen his finger on the trigger .. that'd be a riot.....
so im throwing this up here for suggestions, im sure someone else here has done something similar with a family member... so lets hear it...