evan price
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I have a friend who I go shooting with sometimes. I've known this guy since Boy Scouts.
Well, my friend picked up a new girlfriend. She is not a shooter, but has at least shot once or twice before. We went shooting last year before the range got snowed in. She heard I had Sigs and when we got to the range she watned to shoot my Sigs, I mean she was like totally stoked and panting to shoot my Sigs.
Well, she shot them, and then didn't want to shoot anymore.
When asked why, she said that the guns weren't what she liked.
She is a beginner, she can get them near the paper, and she's trying.
It turns out she heard that the Sig P210 was about the best shooting pistol ever made. Somehow she has become fixated on Sig P210's. She now won't shoot anyhting else because the other guns are just not good enough. My Sigs are just consumer grade pistols for miltary or cops and not made as accurate as a Sig P210 and therefore she won't be able to shoot them with the level of accuracy she wants to.
Bear in mind, again, this is a NEW shooter who is lucky to hit the target.
In her opinion, it's not worth shooting anything else than a Sig P210 because she would just be learning bad habits she would have to unlearn, and why shoot something that is not going to let her perform to her expected levels? We try working with her on grip, riding the sear, trigger feel, stance, etc. and she really doesn't learn anything and blames her poor shooting on the fact that our guns are just basic military/police models with poor accuracy and if she had a Sig 210 it would be easy to hit the bullseye every time.
Nevermind I can empty a mag into a 3x5 card and she is lucky to get one on the card.
Don't get me wrong- a Sig P210 is a really really nice pistol. But it's kind of like somebody with no driver's license walking up to Roger Penske and saying they could drive in NASCAR and win if he just gives them a car.
It's getting to the point that I don't even want to go shooting with them anymore because all I get from her is gun snobbery about my "plebian" Sigs that really are not a Sig P210. She's obsessed about this. Last time we went out she shot maybe a couple rounds and sighed a lot and said she was just waiting to get what she wants.
My buddy says he's at his wits end with her regarding this- he likes Taurus, Ruger and Smith & Wessons and doesn't even own a Sig. She won't even pick up his guns because they are mass-market cheap models and it's not worth wasting ammo on shooting them, she says.
She even wants to sell her car (paid off Nissan) to buy a Sig P210 and show us what a real good pistol can do compared to our cheap mass market pistols. Bear in mind this is her only transportation, and she expects my buddy to freight her around after she sells her car to buy this pistol.
She says that when she gets the pistol she wants to get her CCW license, get another car, and leave it in the glove compartment for just in case.
What do I do now? I'd like to tell my buddy that she is a psycho and RUN AWAY but that's not cool.
I've been coming up with excuses not to go shooting already.
Well, my friend picked up a new girlfriend. She is not a shooter, but has at least shot once or twice before. We went shooting last year before the range got snowed in. She heard I had Sigs and when we got to the range she watned to shoot my Sigs, I mean she was like totally stoked and panting to shoot my Sigs.
Well, she shot them, and then didn't want to shoot anymore.
When asked why, she said that the guns weren't what she liked.
She is a beginner, she can get them near the paper, and she's trying.
It turns out she heard that the Sig P210 was about the best shooting pistol ever made. Somehow she has become fixated on Sig P210's. She now won't shoot anyhting else because the other guns are just not good enough. My Sigs are just consumer grade pistols for miltary or cops and not made as accurate as a Sig P210 and therefore she won't be able to shoot them with the level of accuracy she wants to.
Bear in mind, again, this is a NEW shooter who is lucky to hit the target.
In her opinion, it's not worth shooting anything else than a Sig P210 because she would just be learning bad habits she would have to unlearn, and why shoot something that is not going to let her perform to her expected levels? We try working with her on grip, riding the sear, trigger feel, stance, etc. and she really doesn't learn anything and blames her poor shooting on the fact that our guns are just basic military/police models with poor accuracy and if she had a Sig 210 it would be easy to hit the bullseye every time.
Nevermind I can empty a mag into a 3x5 card and she is lucky to get one on the card.
Don't get me wrong- a Sig P210 is a really really nice pistol. But it's kind of like somebody with no driver's license walking up to Roger Penske and saying they could drive in NASCAR and win if he just gives them a car.
It's getting to the point that I don't even want to go shooting with them anymore because all I get from her is gun snobbery about my "plebian" Sigs that really are not a Sig P210. She's obsessed about this. Last time we went out she shot maybe a couple rounds and sighed a lot and said she was just waiting to get what she wants.
My buddy says he's at his wits end with her regarding this- he likes Taurus, Ruger and Smith & Wessons and doesn't even own a Sig. She won't even pick up his guns because they are mass-market cheap models and it's not worth wasting ammo on shooting them, she says.
She even wants to sell her car (paid off Nissan) to buy a Sig P210 and show us what a real good pistol can do compared to our cheap mass market pistols. Bear in mind this is her only transportation, and she expects my buddy to freight her around after she sells her car to buy this pistol.
She says that when she gets the pistol she wants to get her CCW license, get another car, and leave it in the glove compartment for just in case.
What do I do now? I'd like to tell my buddy that she is a psycho and RUN AWAY but that's not cool.
I've been coming up with excuses not to go shooting already.
A kindred spirit, as it were.
Some folks make up for something (anything) in their life like this gal with the 210. Cant argue with the good taste.