Wife Needs To Deflect Unwanted Attention

[Newton]

My wife asked me to take her pistol shooting last weekend and on returning from the bathroom I found her surrounded by 3 other (male) shooters who had imposed themselves on her and were in the process of telling her how to:

1. Hold her gun
2. Cock the hammer
3. Use a speedloader
4. Choose a superior pistol

They were well meaning, but intrusive, and it happens EVERY time I take her shooting to greater or lesser degrees.

The wife is very polite, and doesn't want to appear rude, but she just wants to be left alone when she shoots and doesn't like attention.

Any suggestions as to how she can avoid the information brigade.


Newton

 

[JohnKSa]

T-Shirt options:

Your balls don't mean you know more about guns than I do.

This is MY gun--go shoot your own.

I only accept gun advice from homosexual males.

If you give me unsolicited gun advice I'm going to critique your personal hygiene.

I know I'm holding the gun wrong--by the way, you dress funny and smell bad.

Don't tell me YOU'RE a firearms instructor too! (Needs a suitable graphic--exasperated looking smiley)

I accept gun advice but I charge $100 an hour.

I came to shoot--not to get hit on.

My husband has a nasty jealous streak--he's the guy standing behind you with a .45

If you want to hit on a woman in a shooting range, bring your own.

Take your filthy hands off my gun and get away from me. (That's what I'd say if I weren't so polite.)

Step away from the woman with the gun.

I'm wearing these ear-muffs to drown out unwanted advice...

Here's the deal. You pretend to know about guns--I'll pretend to listen.

I'm too polite to tell you you're making an ass of yourself by giving me unwanted gun advice.

One more piece of advice and I'm going to accidentally shoot you in the foot.

 

[pax]

Newton ~

The title for the thread says it all.

This is something she'll have to do for herself. You can't do it for her.

pax

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. -- HL Mencken

 

[Majic]

All she has to do is ignore them or just decline their offer to help. If she doesn't know to do that she has a much worst problem. If she can't get the point across that she wants to be left alone while practicing then what will she do when attacked? Mindset is first and foremost in the game.

 

[PinnedAndRecessed]

Have her eat a load of beans before she goes and then blow 'em away with the gas.

 

[buy guns]

get her a bigger and easier to see wedding ring

 

[mhdishere]

Pinned:
Don't you know women don't DO that??????

 

[Gunmeister]

Like the old song says, "Never make a pretty woman your wife"

 

[Intune]

Listen to Pax.

 

[Mute]

Tell her to dress like the stereotypical librarian. That or Hillary Clinton.

 

[Gunmeister]

Better yet, Kerry's "old" lady.

 

[Brian Williams]

Have her shoot the center out of their target.

 

[SLCDave]

she must learn to pick her nose/crack frequently.

 

[BadWolf]

LOL,

Johnksa, those were hillarious!!!

I wonder if my wife would wear any of those t-shirts?

 

[JohnKSa]

Well, some are pretty far out there--but there are a few that even someone very polite could wear.

You might also find an NRA instructor in your area and get him to order a shirt with an instructor logo on it for her to wear at the range. Then again that might be too subtle for some folks.

 

[Newton]

JohnKSa - Those were funny, but I'm seriously considering having one or two of those slogans printed up for her.

In the meantime I now have to find somewhere private for us to shoot, or get an ugly wife I guess




Newton

 

[GrayBear]

TELL THEM -

I'd tell them, in a fairly friendly voice at least at first, "Hey, guys! One coach and only one coach at a time and tonight's my turn!"

BTDT - my wife's no longer a spring chicken but she's 20 years my junior, a long-legged six foot tall blond. Guys, especially the older ones, still want to try their luck and I figure it's my place to take the pressure off of her.

GrayBear

 

[Smurfslayer]

poor manners...

As an instructor, I am happy to help someone out. I _will_ intervene for a 'thumbs crossed' on a revolver or semi, or pointing unsafe, etc.

HOWEVER, as a matter of respect, if there is a pair shooting, and I witness a problem, or something which can be corrected, I approach the OTHER party, and ask if they are together. I tell them what I'm observing, and suggest some courses of action. I've found this to be well received. About half have asked me to intervene, and nobody had their feelings hurt. One guy did thank me, saying his G.F. was a bit put off by some of the macho types... Not that I was behaving that way mind you... Anyway, he was able to make some improvements at my suggestions...

I kind of like some of those shirt ideas...

There's a fine line between being helpful, and being meddlesome.

 

[Strings]

*I* have never butted in on someone else's range time, except to warn the nice young couple at the next lane that I was opening up with an Automag, and things were gonna be loud (indoor range)...

I've only ever seen one person "butt in", and that was a fellow High Roader. Most times, it's offering a child hearing protection (WHY do so many parents forget/ignore that? ). The other time was a young lady, whose father was teaching her to shoot an autoloader with her thumbs wrapped around the back of the grip.

Let me amend that: LOTS of people "butt in" at the trap house, but it's kept friendly. The most common remark being "you're not following through". But I haven't seen anyone be obnoxious about it...

 

[Elkslayer]

Have her wave her UNLOADED firearm across their torso a couple of times as the approach her, that should make'em scatter!

Just kidding!

 

[spacemanspiff]

i think we really need to see a pic of the wife in question here. come on now, share with us, newton! we're your buddies!

 

[El Kabong]

Being a female shooter, I too have found myself surrounded by guys at the range trying to "help".

I listen to their advice, then continue with what I was doing anyway and proceed to put 30 rounds downrange in the 10 ring at 10-15 yards.

They generally leave me alone after that.

 

[feedthehogs]

Have her wear a Diane Feinstein mask.

 

[BarnsBeware]

In my experience, if you ever want to find a jackass at the range, send a female to the trap/skeet bays. They come out of the woodwork and love to laugh it up... that is until she smokes their scores. I swear, as bad as it can get in the handgun bays, thats nothing compared to the shotgun sports... why is that? What happened?

 

[joab]

My favorite reply has always been one of my ex's gems.

" I'll consider that,
If I can think of anyway that it's any of your damn business I'll let you know"