Do NOT take your wife/gf shooting...

Personally, I'd rather have an enthusiastic pro-gun wife to go shooting with than ANY gun. :cool:

My wife can shoot, she came with my probably once a year for 7 years.

She has phases sometimes when she likes shooting, and other times, she couldn't care less. Would rather have a mani/pedi or facial.

How about a pic of your wife with her new piece, maybe at the range?
 
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the only gun my wife had fired was my Marlin 925, and that only a couple of times. Then I brought home a S&W 317 to see if she would be interested. The first words out of her mouth were "do they make a pink grip?"

She still prefers the rifle, but we'll see how it goes. I'm making progress.
 
^ Hahaha so true.

Girl money is HER money.

Your money is OUR money. :p

Still, though, awesome gun and the fact that she is now invested in the sport means you can collect and shoot unmolested!

One of the times I love her most is when my girlfriend of five years (soon to be fiance, I think) asks me if I'd like to go shoot or put on my iPod and clean my guns when I am stressed. Really shows she knows me.
 
I somehow find time to take my wife to the local gun shop around Mother's Day for the last three years. This year I failed to make it - another story. I manage to always find "her" a mothers day present there. She got a 22/45 one year and a LCR the next. She carries the LCR, it really is her very own - really.
 
Wow....my TFL brothers are all very lucky.


I took my girl once....


1. She was jealous at my buddies girl shooting better.

2. A .22 ejected casing went down her shirt.

3. She fired one full mag on a SIG P226 and that was it after the .22

4. The rest of the day she sat back and stayed bitter towards me and all my buddies.

5. She never wants to go again and hates guns. But wants a license to look cool.





Help? Intervention? Can your wife talk to my girl?


Kudos man.
 
I took my wife to the range once and she was scared and had a hard time holding the gun. I started a thread about it actually, and after talking about it more, she really has no desire to shoot or carry a gun.

I give her credit for trying and glad she told me how she felt rather than have us go out and spend money on something she really didn't want. I really wanted her to have some experience shooting in case we were attacked and I was shot dead, and she needed to pick up my gun and finish the fight.
 
My lady doesn't like indoor ranges at all - the noise and smoke give her a headache.

She likes outdoor ranges well enough; less noise, better ventilation.

But her favorite is the back yard (ours or somebody else's). MUCH less noise and smoke, plus she doesn't have to worry about looking like an idiot in front of strangers. (Not that she looks like an idiot; she just feels like she does.)

Actually, it's the same with working out. She likes to work out at home, where she doesn't have to worry about an audience.

Anyway, she's shot enough out in our back yard to know that she really liked a S&W 65 3" I picked up a few months back; it's now her gun. Bright stainless with a light-grain set of Ahrend's round-butt finger-grooves.

She also likes the AR and the 870, but could take or leave the Garand.

Lately, she seems to be somewhat interested in my T/C Hawken .50...

The trick is to keep the pressure off, and the enjoyment level high. She knows she doesn't have to go shooting, or flying, or boating to make me happy with her; I know I'm allowed to go without her. So, she's happy to go with me when she feels like it, and feels no pressure to go when she doesn't.

And I try to make the environment as comfortable for her as I can, when she does feel like going.
 
Ive been contemplating how to handle this situation myself. When I told my girlfriend about my intentions to purchase a pistol she was less than pleased. After further discussion she was ok with it. Im hoping at some point to get her to the range with me. I'm hoping taking a beginning handgun class together would be a good way to start. I can only hope she reacts as well as some of the other wives/girlfriends have in this thread :D
 
When I announced my intention to return to pistol shooting / ownership my wife was less then impressed, however the real opposition came from my 13 y.o. daughter. I was told very clearly that she did not want a gun in the house and she did not want me to shoot.

The opposition has slowly fallen away with time. I doubt that either will ever condone it so I guess I will settle for lack of specific opposition. I really would like to teach my daughter how to handle / use a pistol but I just don't think it will happen.

C'est la vie!
 
I just spent a moment trying to imagine myself, at age 13, telling my parents what they could or could not have in their house...

... my mind literally boggled.
 
She may be 13, but she a reasonably based opinion and she is entitled to express it.

She wasn't telling me what I could or could not do; she was telling me that she did not want a gun in the house; there is a difference.
 
Wow....my TFL brothers are all very lucky.


I took my girl once....


1. She was jealous at my buddies girl shooting better.

2. A .22 ejected casing went down her shirt.

3. She fired one full mag on a SIG P226 and that was it after the .22

4. The rest of the day she sat back and stayed bitter towards me and all my buddies.

5. She never wants to go again and hates guns. But wants a license to look cool.





Help? Intervention? Can your wife talk to my girl?


Kudos man.
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I hope you didn't just take her to the range, stick a gun in her hand and then wonder why things went off the rails. That doesn't work well for anybody. The only reason you don't hear about men reacting like that when their buddies take them shooting for the first time is because they're too macho to admit that they didn't like shooting a gun. Women are "allowed" to not like shooting, so they'll just tell you when going to shoot was a crap experience.
 
Brett, my question for your daughter would be...who's paying for that house?

I took my (then girlfriend) out shooting at her request. Of all the handguns I had she liked the 1911 Government Model best. She got a Combat Commander and even got into competition (early combat matches) after we were married. By then she was shooting a Gold Cup.

She got serious enough about it that she went to Gunsite and got her "Expert" rating from Cooper himself. She still carries but doesn't compete any more. I have never had a problem with her liking/wanting guns and have bought a number of them for her. She's bought several of her own too.

Lately I've been thinking about one of those Springfield EMPs for her. She has small hands and loved the way the EMP felt when she picked one up at a gun show.

Dave
 
Is it okay to take someone else's wife?,,,

I'm thinking that I could have a shooting buddy that's nice to look at,,,
And any expenses occurred at the range or gun store,,,
Go on the hubby's credit card,,,
Not mine. :p

Oh wait!,,,
That's the situation I have.

My friend Jane and I go shooting quite often. :D

She's the one with the nickel plated Model 15.

Aarond
 
Brett, my question for your daughter would be...who's paying for that house?
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Dave T,

Who's paying for the house is a given and like MLeake expressed, wouldn't have thought about expressing my opinions of what the household rules were ... but....

My questions for myself as a father would be....why does my 13yr. old daughter feel this way towards guns?? Who's putting into her head that all guns are 'evil' and meant for nothing but doing harm to others?
She's been taught those opinions somewhere. It would then be my job to teach/ show her differently.

My wife has stolen my 3" SP101.
She's found that it's got just enough weight that shooting 38spl. and38+p's out of it is very manageable for her and she's become very accurate with it.
 
Just a thought, but I can't think of many things that are more "None of your goddamn business" than how somebody else raises their kids.
 
Excellent point CastleBravo...

...and probably would not have been commented on if Brett himself had not injected his daughter's thoughts/ feelings towards guns into the thread.

But then again, probably shouldn't have been commented on anyway since that could be a thread of its own, eh

Speaking for my comment, it was in no way trying to tell Brett how to raise his kids. Wasn't titled to him, but rather more in response to Dave T's post.
 
Doesn't apply only to wife or girlfriend- it applies to women who may just be a friend. I took a friend of mine out to my local range to try out my BP revolvers. She wanted to give them a try; was both nervous and excited about the prospect ( had never fired a gun before other than NPS volunteer training on a Brown Bess musket ). She grew up with her dad's guns around, but she told me they always made her nervous. A few shots later, with progressively larger charges, and she got the bug. Her father called while we were there, and she wanted to know if he had any BP guns she could borrow. Now she knows I also have my Blackhawk and my 84F to shoot, and she just went "oooooohhhh" on hearing that. I think I may have created a monster.......:eek:
 
And now.... (marked guys already know the rest) less than two weeks later, my wife is the proud owner of a 9mm SA Loaded 1911 Stainless and the extra money I had put aside for my new Arsenal AK is all gone. Oh well, at least she has good taste in guns
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She spent YOUR money, but at least you got another gun in the house and a quality firearm. :D
 
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