Who is your pro-gun/gun nut apprentice?

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KaMaKaZe

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One trip to the range and one gun at a time, I'm turning people over in small numbers.

With a little bit of leverage from dad and a few weeks later, I have successfuly opened my girlfriend up to the notion of shooting a shotgun. This weekend I'll be dusting off the nearest 20guage that hasn't been shot since God knows when. I can't wait.

Who is your current apprentice?

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Great post, KaMaKaZe.

I try to bring as many newbies to the range with me as I can, although it sometimes proves tricky. Tomorrow afternoon I'm taking a friend out shooting with me. He's mainly interested in black powder, so I'm taking my .50 cal percussion gun, but I'm also packing a wide variety of other guns for him to test out (10/22, *&* mod. 28, Ruger P89, an SKS, shotguns, and probably a single stack 9mm (3914?). I'm sure he'll enjoy all of them, and the next step is to assist him in buying one of his own.

Often, rather than having shooting apprentices, I prefer to take anti's my age (18) to the range with me, all the while bombarding them with RKBA propaganda. I do it in a tactful way, and I've had some rather startling success. Since late August, I've turned a very anti classmate (17 years old. the sickness starts early, eh?) as well as my Western Civ/Psychology teacher. I haven't been able to get the teacher to go to the range yet, but it'll come. That was my crowning victory, especially since he changed his mind in front of the class, and gave me permission to give a presentation/lesson all about the evolution of the gun on the battlefield.

Well, there's my 2 cents worth.

-Parke1

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A gentleman I met on Compuserve Firearms Forum.

He's been shooting longer than I've been around, but he didn't have a SINGLE Smith & Wesson revolver when we first started hitting the range and shows together.

Now, under my tuteledge (sp?), he has 8 or 9!

I'm also teaching him how to change springs, fine tune, etc., and will likely move on to the lesser steps in an action job in the next couple of weeks.

Matter of fact, we're heading to an all-revolver falling steel match in Frederick, Maryland, tomorrow.

I'm going to be shooting my Model 28 4 or 6", he'll probably take his 686+.

Yes, I know I'm not converting anyone...

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My assistant at work. We've been to the range a few times, and he's bought a Buckmark and a Glock 21 (which we will be taking on its maiden voyage this weekend) :)

He wasn't hard to "convert" - he was already a pro-gun conservative who had just never fired a gun before.
 
Well, it was (and to a certain degree still is) Terri. Her only shooting experience had been as a small child with her father many years ago. (Gee, when I read that back it makes it appear she is really old ;)) Now it is her son, TFL member BigDawg, whom had no experience before this.
We are in the process of building a new house and I am getting the contactor (29 years old) interested in shooting. He is next.
In the past I have introduced several young people to shooting. They are always the most fun.
 
That would have been my father-in-law. Shot, carried, reloaded about every gun possible. Introduced me to the 1911. Passed on in 98, hell of a guy.
 
Actually, I have several: three former cow orkers, the new guy at my current company, two clients, my sister-in-law, and her boyfriend.

Now, if I could just get my wife to come shooting with me...


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My wife, my best friend from high school, and I'm trying to get his wife too. He's never been anti-gun, but he had an anti-gun mom so he never got to shoot. She, on the other hand, was actually frightened to sit in my parents' living room this summer because there was a locked gun case with dad's .22 lever actions inside behind glass. Had to go to the other room before she'd settle down.
The wife was doing great until she cut her thumb at EOSM, now she doesn't seem to want to shoot at all. But she went to the gun show with me last weekend and I think she's getting back on the horse (at EOSM, a Remington .32 she was firing bit her when she put her offhand thumb too high behind the slide. She needed 4 stitches to close the gash.)
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by KaMaKaZe:
One trip to the range and one gun at a time, I'm turning people over in small numbers.

With a little bit of leverage from dad and a few weeks later, I have successfuly opened my girlfriend up to the notion of shooting a shotgun. This weekend I'll be dusting off the nearest 20guage that hasn't been shot since God knows when. I can't wait.

Who is your current apprentice?
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My two step-sons and my wife. They all enjoy shooting (well, aside from the youngest boy getting a burn on his foot when a casing ejected from the Glock he was shooting bounced and got caught in his sandal). I occasionally give the boys a "pop quiz" on the rules of gun safety (while we're driving somewhere or walking through a store, making sure they don't have them filed away for "at the range"), and discuss the definitions of various terms (caliber vs mm, semi-auto vs automatic, the laws governing guns and why most of them are stupid, ineffective and unconstitutional). [It's especially heartening when they _ask_ about these things, or make spontaneous observations about the subject when they see or hear anti-gun/ignorant statements on the topic.]
 
As an Air Force NCO, I have a large group of fairly captive audience members to draw on. Basically, if you work in my shop you had better come to the range at least once, if only to see what the heck we are talking about :)

I've managed to get more folks hooked on shooting in a single half an hour with a Ruger MKI and a hundred rounds of ammo than with all the statistic, logic, common sense type arguements on gun rights that I've been involved in combined...


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Convinced one friend to buy three guns in the last year, a CZ-75, a Mossberg 12 gauge and a Ruger MkII. Take him shooting with me almost every weekend (I drive). Almost got him convinced to join the local gun club. Take my wife, daughter and stepson shooting whenever I can convince them, one at a time.

RKBA,

Ledbetter
 
My 16 yr old son. We went Chukar hunting after work this week. Saw one Chukar "feather". No birds. He still said it was the best time he's had in weeks. Made me happy.
 
I say with all certainty, bring your kids. They are bombarded with more anti-gun and anti-intellect junk, that you may not convert them to a nut, but they will always have a memory of time with you and a gun.

Can anybody (outside of us people) understand how chocked up you get when they play the national anthem. Does anybody take you seriously when you say dead, cold fingers or you will not retreat when defending your families? Make them know that they need to know math and science and colors and music (real music). Write a poem, read a book by an author that pi$$es you off just so you can formulate a reply, whistle. Then shoot a gun.

I watched a movie the other day that I seen a loooooooooooong time ago "Michael" with Ravolta. In the movie, there is a scene where he spins around and laps [no better word] the wind and the sunlight. This is what it is to think, to feel and to LIVE. Teach the children that real life is more important than safety {not advocating stupid thillseeking}. Think, act, compose, shoot, life.
 
My son. Fourteen, and can recite the 4 Rules of Gun Handling in order, and talk intelligently about them. Hits what's downrange, but not as good as dad ;) - yet.
 
My son is my best shooting buddy ;) Started him with my S&W 629 when he was three, Now he's fifteen.
It's at a point where I won't take a new gun out to shoot unless he is with ;) I'd feel guilty if I wouldn't

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Four grandsons. We shoot every time they come to the country. Last year I got a neighbor lady talked into getting her CHL and took her to a gunshow where she bought a 9mm.

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I'm working on my friends. All of whom are devout christians. We discuss the topic often. I've convinced them of the RKBA position. Taking three of them with me to the Indy1500 gunshow. But these guys are easy. Their wives though....they are tougher. One fella's wife just won't even talk about it. The other wives don't mind. But none are pro-RKBA.

I also lurk and post on as many anti forums. Though I can't take them to the range, I can argue and convince them to think pro-RKBA. I'm finding suprising success changing minds by fighting for the angels on the forums. Mostly folk who are just anti gun because its the Liberal position or haven't heard the reasons for RKBA. Like they'd hear it from the media.

Regards,
MP
 
I’ve converted quite a few over my life time. First was a gentleman I was debating in speech class. The subject was gun control. The wining question to him was… have you ever shot a gun? His answer was no. The follow up question was… Then how can you make a value judgment about something that you have no personal experience with?

That weekend I took him out duck hunting… he only brought his camera for this…. At the time I had a corn field where a flock of between 2 & 3 thousand mallards were feeding every morning… Don’t know if you have ever experienced a mass feeding frenzy like this. These ducks are nuts, a swirling mass of hysteria. We laid down in the middle of the field while it was still dark. No blind, no camo… just bare ground… When the ducks came in they landed about 200 yards from us. I gave a couple of quick calls on my scotch call and the whole flock headed over to us. They landed around us, in between us and one even landed on this guys chest. Was thrilling to say the least…. He got some great pictures out of it. The following weekend he was back out there with me, only this time he had a shotgun with him. Between the two of us we got enough ducks within 15 minutes that it took us most of the day to clean them.

You know that it’s a good possibility that we could turn things around by doing this… think of the math… 1 person converts 2 anti’s…. those 2 anti’s each convert 2 anti’s… those four each convert 2 anti’s…. etc. Within 30 days we could covert the whole U.S. population…. Well in theory anyway…



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
My nephews, about 14 of them. One of the eleven year-olds has more guns than I do!

And of course, I'm trying to get others who already own guns to shoot more often, or at least buy ammo.
 
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