You can hear my dad giving her good encouragement, she did way better with him than me. Bet she went through about $50 of CB shorts. She wants a 17HMR like his now
This is a total win, she’s into buying rifles, shooting more, learning basics of aiming, weapon manipulation, and most importantly safety. She is slowly trying to transfer this to her 9mm pistol. Obviously the shorts in a rifle are way more fun but it’s a really good bit of progress. And of course her tastes are expensive, she wants and CZ 17 HMR next and a .357 lever action. I won’t complain though.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting!
Posts: 6940 | Location: Georgia | Registered: August 10, 2009
Great job! Getting a spouse to enjoy a hobby with us is a win-win! Kids too. Just last week, one of my daughters had brought a new friend over that is into firearms. She reveled in telling the story about kicking an ex-boyfriends' ass at the dueling tree when I took them to the range. She went on, "I was pretty good, and my dad took us to the range all the time, so I used to practice a lot". The seriousness in which she said it made me proud. Apparently the lessons stuck.
Awesome. My wife likes to shoot and is pretty good. It has to be perfect weather though… so she rarely shoots
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Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
That's fantastic. My wife is not there yet. She still afraid of firearms from all the years of Hollywood brainwashing. She accepting of me owning them but won't touch them.
Posts: 1105 | Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Registered: August 11, 2010
That’s wonderful! Just be prepared, lol, it might get expensive now around your place…. I’m a bad influence, just ask my hubby as I love shopping for new toys, or going to the range.
Originally posted by TXLe: That's fantastic. My wife is not there yet. She still afraid of firearms from all the years of Hollywood brainwashing. She accepting of me owning them but won't touch them.
That was my scenario about 10 years ago. I took her and my daughter to my range and put them in the NRA Classroom. They took them out to the range and they a) got over their fear B) became shooting addicts.
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Posts: 9188 | Location: 18 miles long, 6 Miles at Sea | Registered: January 22, 2012
What ever you do don't ever take her to a shotgun range to shoot a bit of Trap or Skeet. Because once she finds out how much more fun shooting at moving targets is you'll be on the trail of purchasing a 30,000 dollar Kreighoff K80 just for her.
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Posts: 5792 | Location: Michigan | Registered: November 07, 2008
Originally posted by Tonydec: Great job! Getting a spouse to enjoy a hobby with us is a win-win!
Congratulations!
Tried that, but when Candy Cane finished her act on the main stage pole and then came over and sat on my lap, well, we won't be going back. Lets just say I'll have to go back to my hobby by myself.....
Posts: 24880 | Location: Gunshine State | Registered: November 07, 2008
And I thought converting my wife to Republican from a lifelong Democrat was a miracle! But Obama was the final straw. Congratulations and remember now she can shoot!!
Posts: 4480 | Location: White City, Florida | Registered: January 11, 2009
My wife used to be antigun. I fixed that. She’s still not really into guns or shooting, but I still consider it a win.
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Posts: 17881 | Location: New Mexico | Registered: October 14, 2005
I envy the surroundings and you can just shoot there.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
Posts: 20404 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011
If you can find a shotgun that she likes then try sporting clays.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
Posts: 6057 | Location: Central Texas | Registered: September 14, 2003
