Girls and guns

[bullbreaker]

Quote from Annie Oakley

 

[om21braz]

My experience with teaching female shooters is that for the most part they come to the table without preconceived notions of how to shoot and without machismo. A lot of guys will pretend they "know it all" because they are guys. Most females don't pretend anything. They just listen and soak up the wisdom and techniques you are trying to impart into them. So overall they seem to make better students with no bad habits to break, and the learning process seems to go faster. I have had a few that seemed unteachable, but for the most part, it all went well, and much progress was made.

+1 Given a good instructor, plenty of ammo and time on the range - a typical 12 year old girl will have many of the young boys looking at other sports.

 

[MacLawn]

Being a helpless victim never appealed to any of us. Our entire family from grade school kids to old granny knows how to properly handle a firearm. For those who have never done it, target shooting with the family is a lot of fun.

Now, I that's the ticket! Don't wait until it's too late.

 

[Deere Dude]

Twenty years ago I tried teaching my wife how to shoot a pistol because we lived in the boonies and I worked screwy hours. I took her out on the deck and handed her my 1911 and was going to have her bang a few. She took one shot and somehow the casing jumped up and hit her in the forehead. That was it for her. But after reading these posts I just asked her again if she would want to learn to shoot a pistol. To my surprise she said yes. This time I will give her my Browning clip fed 22. A nice heavy gun and not to much recoil.

Better yet, maybe I will ask my BIL to teach her the next time he comes over. He was a gun nut and instructor. She might listen to him more openly.

 

[TripleR]

When my wife and I married, she had never touched a gun nd we didn't own one. After a very scary incident I purchased a .22 and taught her to shoot. Much to her surprise she enjoyed it and I later bought her a Colt Woodsman Match Target which she still has. It took a long time to get her really comfortable and she now has a Glock 19 and S&W 649 and I just bough her a new deer rifle. My son was a firearms instructor for years and always got new shooters started on a .22.

I don't disagree anyone can quickly learn to good enough to pass a CCW, but I firmly believe long term familiarity is a bit better from a safety standpoint ie. muzzle awareness etc.

 

[Ed of all trades]

+1 Given a good instructor, plenty of ammo and time on the range - a typical 12 year old girl will have many of the young boys looking at other sports.

Not a girl but when my stepson was 11 we were at the range shooting when a friend showed up and we talked a little and he asked to shoot my .44 He shot three rounds and said it was to much for him. We stepped outside the glass and as we talked about my stepson opened up with HIS .44. The guy was standing there with his mouth open. Here was an 11 yr old shooting a Super Blackhawk with an 10 1/2" barrel hitting what he aimed at and I don't mean a big man target. He had been shooting mine and liked it so I got him one just like it. I never regretted teaching him young. Ed

 

[Gary Fowler]

My neighbor and I share a gun range behind his house. Thanksgiving, my son and his kids (granddaughter 22 and son 17) came up for the holiday. He brought his 9mm to practice with since he has no where to shoot. I had several handguns from .22 up to .357 magnum (had a .357 Henry rifle also) that I took over to shoot. After my son and I had fired a few rounds, I coaxed my granddaughter to shoot my 9mm. After some coaching as to how to hold, aim etc and some range safety points, she had the range. She was hitting the man size silhouette target almost every time with my 9mm but couldn't hit squat with my sons S&W M&P in .40. The trigger pull is so hard on that gun that it makes you pull low almost every time. Needless to say after we finished shooting, granddaughter came out with top honors for her shooting skill.
Everyone did better with the .22's than with the higher calibers, so if training a new shooter, a .22 might be the better choice to start with although the 9mm in a heavier gun doesn't produce a lot of recoil and ammo is easier to come by.

 

[oldpilgrim]

i started 3 of my grandkids out shooting early. Here's a pic of my 2nd granddaughter shooting her Cricket 22 at age 5.

at age 8:

she told me she wants a .38 revolver for her 16th birthday in June.

I have a video of her shooting my SW500 mag somewhere. She loves shooting.


Her older sister at 13, she started out with a Cricket at aged 8:

and her at her 16th birthday:

She wants her license to carry now.

Get them while they're young but make sure they're mature enough to understand what they're doing and supervise very carefully.

We need the youth to know the truth, not what they hear in the news and in school.

 

[ch1ch2]

No thanks !
No guns for us

I have to say.. Good on him.
He has made a choice for he and his. He did not condemn guns. He did not impose his will on us.
Unlike the socialist liberal democrats in the good ole USA.

From a 2nd amendment supporting American.

 

[STx]

Wife shot 235 out of 250, she was disappointed with her performance. Daughter is going in next.