To Shoot With or Without The Wedding Ring

[SoCalShooter]

Ok guys, why are your wives gonna be so upset if you take the ring off to go shooting? I have not been married and not sure I want to be at this point.

 

[ZeSpectre]

Left handed shooter here as well. My wedding band is pretty tough with no stones to work loose or anything like that, I just find wearing it while shooting is annoying. Being the fairly methodical person I am I tried shooting with and shooting without and it made no discernable difference so now in order to avoid wear n' tear on the gun, the ring, and my hand just below the ring (where it pinches while firing) I take the ring off.

I'm pretty certain that if I actually NEEDED to use my weapon that the little "ring pinch" would be the least of my concerns <grin>.

 

[Fu-man Shoe]

I can't believe you guys are actually serious.

I can't believe this thread has had so many responses.

That's F*$%$in ridiculous.

"Train" with the dang ring already. Jeez. What kind
of a question is that, anyway?

Fu-man Shoe

...and yes, I'm married too.

 

[JLStorm]

Wow thanks for all the great replies. I have been handling the gun nonstop tonight and after a few hours I have determined that while it is slightly more comfortable to hold without the ring, its not a very noticeable difference. I think I will train without the ring, but practice drawing and dry firing and sighting with the ring.

After hearing stories about fingers getting ripped off and everything else, my wife will have to live with me taking the ring off LOL!

 

[45King]

I'm a right hander, so the wedding ring doesn't cause that much problem, but I also wear a signet ring on the same finger of the right hand. I've debated this same issue in my mind many times, and it keeps coming up the same; practice the way you live. Shoot with the ring on. What would your wife prefer, your corpse with an intact wedding ring, or a live husband with a damaged wedding ring?

 

[Stevie-Ray]

I'm an industrial electrician and wedding rings, or rings of any kind are frowned upon on the job, so I'm used to not wearing any at all.

Take it off. If one of those diamonds pops out she's going to kill you. Even if it happens one day when you aren't shooting, she will still blame it on the gun.

This will happen eventually with recoil and you probably won't notice it. But she will.

Thirty two years ago I saw my friend rip his finger off when his wedding ring caught on a bolt. I have not worn a ring or any other jewelery till this day. You be very careful.

I fully understand, but 35 years ago, when I was a glass installer, a large plate glass fell on my service manager's hand, right at the knuckles. His wedding ring saved his fingers. It had to be bent all kinds of ways to get it off, but he refused to let it be cut. It finally came off and all his fingers had cuts right where they met the hand, but they were all intact. See, there are always counter-stories, it just depends on the kind of work you do. Myself, since gold is a great conducter, I stay bare-handed until the weekend, when I put both rings on that the wife got me. She doesn't mind; she knows that until became an electrician, I never took it off.

 

[possum]

You could just wrap the ring with electrical tape.

yep, i learned that trick while working on my brad, in the desert it works.
wearing gloves is also another good idea i shoot with glove 95% of the time. i have a pair of hatch kevlar shppting gloves that work really well.

 

[preWWWIIbuff]

lost is replacement

Take it off and lose it is a much bigger thing to explan seems to me.YMMV IMHO