Posted on 12/06/2020 2:52:21 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Paul explains some things to think about before taking your significant other to the gun range for the first time.
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I’ve taken friends to the indoor range.
Until you know their gun skills, you gotta watch them when they are holding loaded weapons.
Every time!
Paul gives good advice.
A friend taken to the range?
You can lose a friendship real fast.
Friends do not like what they hear if they are unsafe or inattentive in handling a loaded weapon.
I made the big mistake of starting my wife with the same .38 special I use with the same hollow point 138 grain ammo I use and the recoil was so bad she hurt her wrist and said she’ll never shoot it again. Be careful.
With what ammo? :(
Back in June I was at a gun range in Missouri. Don’t know if it was her first time but a woman was two lanes over with her husband/boyfriend. He was standing to her right side, and just behind giving her guidance. She has wearing a halter top which held back her rather large blossom. A hot shell casing flipped back and landed right in her cleavage. He flinched and squeezed off a round as her right hand spun back downward. Hit her significant other with a grazing shot that cut a groove in his arm. Though he was not badly hurt, blood was everywhere.
That was the end of our day as far as shooting is concerned. It was lucky he wasn’t more seriously wounded or that the bullet didn’t ricochet and hit one of us.
I bet that spooked everyone at the range. I am very observant and will leave the range if I see questionable handling.
I got part way thru the video, but due to time constraints I cannot finish it. But I did hear him say that women will ignore you.
Once upon a time I was a supervisor and for several years a team leader at the work place. The inexperienced ignoring the experienced is universal with age, sex, race and any other way people can be categorized. And with today’s younger people, to tell them they are doing something wrong can lead to a serious emotional backlash.
None of this belongs when it comes time to handle firearms. I also have the feeling today’s supervisors are reluctant to address such issues with millineals due to the back lash.
Case in point: Several weeks back at a Scheels Sporting goods store a young employee was installing a scope on a newly purchased rifle and pointing it all around the store with people within the sight path. This was done in full view of his supervisor. I wanted to take the gun away from him and beat him with it. I know I should have went to upper management, but just got the hell out of Dodge.
Hubby made sure my first trip I had the right size .380, knew I’d never be able to handle his 9mm Ruger. Years later when OA got so bad I had to move to a revolver, Tarsus Ultra Lite, my hands are small.
BTW anyone interested and can afford to open a Range/Gun store, Top Brass in Millington, TN closed a month ago. 40+ yr business. TN is very Gun friendly state, open carry, life time permits. Gets better in January.
Paul’s videos are great. I learn something useful from almost every one.
When going to the local outdoor gange, I am always amused by the number of bullet holes in the shooting bench side panels. Yikes, wonder what they were aiming at.
Yep. I learned to start beginners with rifles, preferably, but not necessarily, a .22. And DO NOT use a short barrel or “snub nose” pistol when introducing them to hand guns.
She still doesn't enjoy shooting - and refused to try the AR-15. Oh, well...
Agreed. Paul Harrell and Hickock 45 have the best firearms channels on YouTube. Both are extremely experienced, soft spoken and great spokesmen for the shooting community.
Some people are just plain stupid. Hubby who was a Farm boy, sharp shooter when in USAF (Nam) taught me, years of marriage I knew to listen when he gave orders, as he rarely did, on the road to much as a 2 way radio Trouble shooter; I ran the house. He issued orders only when needed. Trusting I had the commonsense to take precautions. We worked as a team. He could shoot a heart kill pattern every time. Rifle or 9 mm. I tried out several .380 for hand fit, Bersa .380 was just right.
And that’s a shame because an AR-15 is easier to handle for a beginner than just about any pistol.
Glad to hear it. At a gun store, I watched a "boyfriend", helping a young lady pick out a handgun. He was requesting the sales person show her calibers that were totally inappropriate for her size and frame. I could tell she was terrified.
Another gun store that I visit has a women's only room. The attendant is a very nice woman who has a better perspective than buying a Desert Eagle for a first time purchaser. Guns on display are more likely what will work better for most women.
He’d handled guns since his teens, started with a .22 single shot rifle. You missed the ‘super’ meat, you ate biscuits and gravy sans meat. They were that poor.
I’m 5 ft tall to his 5’10”. Hand surgery has set me back on range time. I’m dry firing now, ready for the range to strengthen the wrist. I absolutely refuse to go into Memphis...Shelby Co, TN, after our range closed. Have to find 1 in Tipton Co.
Indeed, a very good one. Paul has such a knack for these instructional videos. ‘I’m whatcha call a professional.’
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