range day at the house

[rallyhound]

Had so friends over today shooting . you never quite know what will show up.
2 Were form China , here for work , and had never fired or held a gun before.
I think we broke them in right. Typical AR AK stuff. some slide fire stuff and a case of Tannerite


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[Liberty1776]

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave...! way to go!

 

[joem1945]

Looks like a fun day!! Need some BBQ to go with that.

 

[Panzerschwein]

Full auto?

 

[Hardtarget]

I bet they'll NEVER forget that 'range day" !

Way to go. Were they grinning when they left?

Mark

 

[bannockburn]

rallyhound

Looks like a great day at the range, especially for the ones who were from out of town!

 

[LeonCarr]

I wouldn't call an MG42 typical AR AK stuff .

I got to shoot one of those once upon a time. Cyclic rate fast enough to sweep left and right and cut cardboard targets in half. Big Fun.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[Al Thompson]

Nicely done.

 

[dmoserwy]

I have done the same thing with some Filipino friends. They had never fired a gun either. Just used my 10-22 and mini 14. They were all smiling big when we were done.

 

[YankeeFlyr]

Yeah, I took my boss (Japanese) shooting in 2010; he was on a 5 year assignment to the States, and remarked that most Japanese "will never ever get to touch a gun".

Hooked him up on my AR-15 and Beretta 92FS.

Had a crew come over from Germany; 1 of them had been in the Bundeswehr, but the others had no firearms experience. Hooked them up with Glocks and a couple revolvers (all range rental guns). They all thought they were Dirty Harry and such.

They took enough photos of each other holding the guns and shooting, I thought they were making a documentary.

Asked if it was legal to take the empty cases home. I said "dude, if your customs folks don't mind...ours don't care if they leave the country..."

 

[jstert]

our right to keep and bear arms is truly unique and wonderful. the more newbies who are safely introduced to shooting, the better. i have a heritage roughrider 22lr earmarked for newbies' first shots. bravo to the o.p.!

 

[Browning Guy]

That remind me of a happening years ago when a group of friends and I did a lot of muzzle loader shooting on a guy's farm. One of us had a fellow engineer visiting us from a sister company in England. He called around to arrange a shoot to bring the guy out to. The visitor was a design engineer and an avid historian. We had a "potluck" of guns from matchlocks through a modern Ruger "Old Army". The guy had an amazing time touching, loading and actually shooting the pieces he had only studied about or seen in museums. It was hard to figure which was the most interested part of him the engineer who studied the mechanics and designs, or the historian who loved the actual handling and shooting. He really gravitated to the Replica Brown Bess and the "Kentucky" rifle we had and shot them the most. Later after shooting both many times he commented "No wonder you guys won the war". But the one thing he couldn't get over was we were actually able to just get together on a private farm and do all that shooting with no permits, licenses, restrictions, NOTHING! He commented that he could never do that at home and found it amazing that we could. All told he left that day with a big grin on his face.

 

[TheGerman]

I also took many global coworkers out to the range when they were visiting (Germany, Poland, Japan, Malaysia) and interestingly, there was not a single one who did not enjoy it (granted, we also took a grill and had some "fun" targets to shoot...).
And yes, they all took pictures and videos, especially when holding the larger bore handguns and rifles.

... but honestly, I still get into drooling mode when seeing guns like the MG42... probably would not take pictures, but you can bet, the smile on the face would be there, just like with the guys from abroad

 

[double bogey]

My brother worked for Hitachi in the mid 80's, we brought a couple of Japanese engineers to our parents house for the 4th of July. We shot everything from muzzle loaders, to deer rifles to pistols, they got to do something the hadn't ever done before or since. Big time for all.