joshk-k
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Hey!
First chance to use the internet since my outing yesterday. Yesterday, I took my co-worker, Jimmy, out to the Mt. Hood National Forest to shoot for the first time. He's a little bit younger than me (21), and is starting to express interest in guns after having a collector car stolen, the replacement being scooped out by the neighborhood thugs, and moving into a new house.
It was my day off, and he took a day off, and we drove about 45 miles from downtown Portland, with everything I own. We stopped at the Fred Meyers and bought a number of large pumpkins and cases of cheap soda.
We started off with a Ruger 10/22 and a Ruger Mk. III (22/45), and that's mostly what we shot all day (1,000 rounds of .22LR). We also shot my .30-30 Marlin, my Marlin .22Mag, and my H&R single-shot 20 gauge. Some other fellows out there, upon learning that it was his first time, let him shoot a full AR mag, and .40 (M&P) and .45 caliber (don't remember the make) pistols.
It was my first time teaching someone to shoot and I was a bit nervous. When we got out, we layed everything out on a table, then sat on the tailgate of my truck and went over the four rules. Jimmy was a great student, respectful, curious about mechanical stuff, legal stuff, and political stuff, and we had a blast.
I barter labor for massage, and this morning, after my massage therapist commented that my right shoulder and upper back were tighter than usual, I explained to her what I had been up to. Now she wants to go! My little brother's coming to visit in January (another first-timer), and if this keeps up, maybe my girlfriend will want to try it.
Anyway, it was a blast. It felt good to introduce another person to this lovely thing we are a part of.
P.S. On the way back into town, we stopped at a gun shop, and he got his heart set on one of these for his first. (http://www.taurususa.com/products/product-details.cfm?id=129&category=Pistol)
Josh
First chance to use the internet since my outing yesterday. Yesterday, I took my co-worker, Jimmy, out to the Mt. Hood National Forest to shoot for the first time. He's a little bit younger than me (21), and is starting to express interest in guns after having a collector car stolen, the replacement being scooped out by the neighborhood thugs, and moving into a new house.
It was my day off, and he took a day off, and we drove about 45 miles from downtown Portland, with everything I own. We stopped at the Fred Meyers and bought a number of large pumpkins and cases of cheap soda.
We started off with a Ruger 10/22 and a Ruger Mk. III (22/45), and that's mostly what we shot all day (1,000 rounds of .22LR). We also shot my .30-30 Marlin, my Marlin .22Mag, and my H&R single-shot 20 gauge. Some other fellows out there, upon learning that it was his first time, let him shoot a full AR mag, and .40 (M&P) and .45 caliber (don't remember the make) pistols.
It was my first time teaching someone to shoot and I was a bit nervous. When we got out, we layed everything out on a table, then sat on the tailgate of my truck and went over the four rules. Jimmy was a great student, respectful, curious about mechanical stuff, legal stuff, and political stuff, and we had a blast.
I barter labor for massage, and this morning, after my massage therapist commented that my right shoulder and upper back were tighter than usual, I explained to her what I had been up to. Now she wants to go! My little brother's coming to visit in January (another first-timer), and if this keeps up, maybe my girlfriend will want to try it.
Anyway, it was a blast. It felt good to introduce another person to this lovely thing we are a part of.
P.S. On the way back into town, we stopped at a gun shop, and he got his heart set on one of these for his first. (http://www.taurususa.com/products/product-details.cfm?id=129&category=Pistol)
Josh
I took a newbie couple out this weekend also. They did real well and said they had fun. I want to take some really smokin-hot, single chicks out shooting. Guns and smoking-hot chicks; what more could a straight male ask for? 
