Youtube videos with women shooters messing up.

[Joe Demko]

When I was a kid, I had a relative pull that "joke" on me. I ended up with a black eye and a cut from where the scope got me. I was humiliated and furious, but those were the "respect your elders" days and that (unfortunately) held true even when the elders were in the wrong. The only course of action open to me was to laugh it off.
He's dead now and I inherited the gun. You know, despite all the many pleasant memories I have of hunting and fishing and such with him, every time I look at that gun the first thing I remember is the day he felt like having a sadistic laugh at my expense.
I've no time for the videos, the cretins who make them, or the imbeciles who laugh at them.

 

[vikinggirl]

The neanderthals who post these kind of videos probably also think women can't drive, complain they talk too much, and think they shouldn't vote.

How anyone could set up someone they 'cared about', man or woman, is just despicable. And the fact that they would let someone be so unsafe is just dangerous.

 

[Mal H]

^ What she said ... and I'll add that to post the video so the rest of the world can see how cruel they can be to someone they "care" about is doubly despicable.

 

[Sky]

When I was 6 or 8? Dad had a single shot 16 gauge that I used to bug him about letting me shoot. He told me no I was to little, the gun was to big and it would hurt me...Hey I am ?? old I can do it etc etc.... I do not know how many occasions this happened but finally one day at the pond while shooting Doves he let me shoot it. He made sure I had a snug butt to shoulder fit and I aimed at a turtle in the pond. Boom as I fell off the crest of the dam backwards on my butt and can't remember but probably did two roll overs?

He collected the gun and asked if I wanted to shoot it again?

I think I waited a year or two and I do remember after a day of shooting that thing I would come back home with blue and green colored shoulder. This is totally different in my mind than setting someone up to be hurt from something they have no knowledge of. I had been shooting since five or six with BB and pellet guns and thought I could handle pretty much anything..The stupidity of my youth!?

 

[oldfool]

when I see guys do that sort of deliberately hurtful stuff to a female person
I feel pretty much the same way as I do when I see a male person hit a female person with his fist
best not done in my presence
(old guys are merely feeble, not harmless)

young lads, well, sometimes "boys will be boys", and need be allowed to learn what "stove = HOT" really means, if just too stubborn to listen

 

[mustang_steve]

I generally don't like those types of videos...most of them are lame. There were a few that got a chuckle, but it would have been the same regardless of shooter's gender, and those were more or less cases of stuff happens than anyone being mean and giving a new shooter a magnum rifle or handgun.

 

[jakeiscrazy]

On the flip side. I subscribe to one of the girls who got scope bite. She is now a firearms owner herself and has some mighty large guns.

 

[springmom]

This sort of behavior is exactly the opposite of what the members at THR are about.

I have trained too many women who had a dad or brother or "boyfriend" or husband who put the most recoil heavy thing they had in the hands of these women an either lied outright about the recoil or had no idea how to show them how to manage it. These creeps usually got a laugh out of endangering the novice shooter and made sure that they never wanted to have anything to do with shooting. When enough time passed and these women has something in their lives motivate them to try to overcome their reluctance to pick up a gun they were surprised to find that they could be taught to shoot using good technique and a manageable caliber.

Yup. I was on the receiving end of this as a young girl. I don't remember how old I was...probably 10 or 11, maybe. My extended family were out shooting shotguns. I was talked into giving it a try. I was maybe 80 pounds soaking wet, and the guy put a 12 gauge in my hands. And no, he didn't hand me any ear protection.

I do now (at age 55) own a shotgun of my own, a 20 ga. semiauto. But that was a horrible day. It hurt, hurt my ears, and I was shamed by my cousin laughing his rear off about it. He learned from his daddy, who talked me into getting on a horse with him when I was maybe 6-7, and then took off galloping at top speed, brought the horse to a halt and reared him up. I was petrified.

Some people just get their kicks from cruelty. What else can you say?

Jan

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I don't find them amusing, if it's someone getting back an ex I can understand it a little, otherwise I really don't like to see people embarrassed or made to look foolish. Unfortunately the proliferation of recording devices
seems to hit the "Stupid" button in many people's psyches.

 

[Captcurt]

I've seen some of the Youtube videos. It would take a real jerk to let anyone shoot a monster caliber without showing them the proper technique. Women don't have a monopoly on screwed up gun handling. I have been around some guys that had no business handling a firearm. I left the range once because an 80 year old was being reckless. People, the last thing that I want is a 45 caliber hole in me.

 

[pikid89]

the worst one is the girl who doesnt shoulder a slug gun and takes the scope to the side of her nose, visibly breaking it...its bad

 

[Charleo0192]

I won't set you up for a failure, but I won't correct you, unless what you're doing is unsafe.

 

[MistWolf]

We should start flagging all such videos on Youtube as INAPPROPRIATE