Yesterday Frances (my wife) and I took a friend of ours shooting for her first time and all of us had a blast. Previously she had never even touched a firearm. She knew we shot and had been asking questions over the course of a few months and had briefly handled my Walther P99c on a few occasions just to ease her into the idea of holding a pistol and cover some basic safety rules.
We went over to their house early (her boyfriend has fired when he was younger, and went with us a few weeks ago) and let her get familiar with the pistol she'd be firing, a Taurus PT25, went back over basic gun/range safety and let her know what to expect when we got to the range. We also showed her some of the other firearms we'd have their in case she wanted to try those.
All in all we had myself, Frances, Frances' dad, Dan and Sara (new shooter) at the range and we had the Taurus PT25, Beretta 92FS, a Beretta CX4 Storm (.40cal), 2 AR15s, a bolt action .243 and a lever action .45-70.
Sara started off slow, firing a single shot from the Taurus a few times before working up to a full magazine. After a while she decided she wanted to try the 92FS. She fired a few shots but still wasn't comfortable enough to really enjoy it so we went back to the Taurus. She also decided she would try a few of the rifles and went through about 10 rounds with the CX4 and a few from the AR.
At the end of the range session everyone had a lot of fun, especially Sara and who knows, we might get her out to the range again sometime for some more fun.
We went over to their house early (her boyfriend has fired when he was younger, and went with us a few weeks ago) and let her get familiar with the pistol she'd be firing, a Taurus PT25, went back over basic gun/range safety and let her know what to expect when we got to the range. We also showed her some of the other firearms we'd have their in case she wanted to try those.
All in all we had myself, Frances, Frances' dad, Dan and Sara (new shooter) at the range and we had the Taurus PT25, Beretta 92FS, a Beretta CX4 Storm (.40cal), 2 AR15s, a bolt action .243 and a lever action .45-70.
Sara started off slow, firing a single shot from the Taurus a few times before working up to a full magazine. After a while she decided she wanted to try the 92FS. She fired a few shots but still wasn't comfortable enough to really enjoy it so we went back to the Taurus. She also decided she would try a few of the rifles and went through about 10 rounds with the CX4 and a few from the AR.
At the end of the range session everyone had a lot of fun, especially Sara and who knows, we might get her out to the range again sometime for some more fun.
I'm trying to get my case manager into shooting myself. She's not anti-gun but she's afraid of what the recoil is like.
