Family comfort with guns, small OC report.

[Dave in Edmonds]

I just wanted to add today's experience.

The Wife and I had our bi-weekly Sunday meet and shoot at Wade's today with 8 friends. Of those, two were women who were shooting a handgun for the first time, one of those shooting for the first time period. The lady who had never fired a handgun really enjoyed the experience and said that she'd like to learn more. She was asking us what kind of guns they were and a few technical questions about them. By the end of the 90-minute session, she was hitting pretty decent groups at 25 feet. The woman who had never shot a gun said that she didn't really consider the outing "fun", but that she liked learning about handling and firing them, since her husband has several hand and long guns. She even took one pop with his Model 29! She said "never again!", but she was willing to try it. The group was evenly divided between men and women and I think that goes a long way towards making the women comfortable. Having my wife say "Do you want to try my .380? It shoots really easy" carries more weight than a guy saying "here, try my .357 Magnum. It don't kick much."

 

[rapgood]

Training, then practice, practice, practice.

I am of the school: training, then practice, practice, practice, then training, then practice, practice, practice, etc. Like riding a motorcycle, training on the basics about once every 5 years is always valuable. We get the little things reinforced.