Quintin Likely
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A friend of mine has a couple of daughters, they're grown up now, but when they were little he'd take them shooting out on his land. Well, that was years ago, they've since started families and gone to college and made it out to the real world. Earlier this week, he called me up asking if I wanted to go shooting, that he was bringing his daughters along and he wanted some help in coaching 'em.
Why hell yes, I'd be glad to come along.
So today we meet up this afternoon at the local indoor range. He brought a .25 auto pocket gun and his XD45. I only have a Glock 19 and a Kimber 1911 for handguns. He started them off shooting the .25, which is a little Taurus thing, with a pretty hard to rack slide and woefully pathetic sights; not the best thing to reintroduce someone to shooting, IMO. We stepped up to the Glock, which only one of the ladies shot and she didn't like 9mm recoil at all. "Hm," I think to myself, "maybe I'm going in the wrong direction. I have an idea!" I head out the range and rented a .22LR pistol, an S&W Model 22, and bought a couple boxes of ammo.
Instant grins. The one who couldn't put up with the Glock had a smile from ear to ear with the .22 after tearing the heart out of the target at 7 yards. Our session was cut kinda short when she had to go pick her kids up from the 'sitters, but it was a good day.
Get out there and introduce (or re-introduce) people to shooting, y'all. We'll win 'em one at a time and everyone will be better off.
Why hell yes, I'd be glad to come along.
So today we meet up this afternoon at the local indoor range. He brought a .25 auto pocket gun and his XD45. I only have a Glock 19 and a Kimber 1911 for handguns. He started them off shooting the .25, which is a little Taurus thing, with a pretty hard to rack slide and woefully pathetic sights; not the best thing to reintroduce someone to shooting, IMO. We stepped up to the Glock, which only one of the ladies shot and she didn't like 9mm recoil at all. "Hm," I think to myself, "maybe I'm going in the wrong direction. I have an idea!" I head out the range and rented a .22LR pistol, an S&W Model 22, and bought a couple boxes of ammo.
Instant grins. The one who couldn't put up with the Glock had a smile from ear to ear with the .22 after tearing the heart out of the target at 7 yards. Our session was cut kinda short when she had to go pick her kids up from the 'sitters, but it was a good day.
Get out there and introduce (or re-introduce) people to shooting, y'all. We'll win 'em one at a time and everyone will be better off.