No, I did not load up my Ruger SBH with hot bear loads and film her shooting it being terrified like a lot of goobers on Youtube...
She had shot a gun before and thanks to a previous boyfriend years ago that thought a .30-06 would be funny, she was a bit hesitant.
But, she watched me at my last GSSF match and wanted to learn how to shoot a pistol. At the range, she fondled a Sig P365 and loved it.
Well, I don't have one of those, so I brought my only 9mm pistols with us to the cabin with mild match rounds.
I thought the Glock G19 Gen 5 MOS with a Burris Fastfire 3 would be a good training gun so she could get used to the recoil and grip and not worry about sight alignment so much.
I'm not an instructor and don't consider myself very good at it since I find it difficult to teach what I've been doing for 40 years.
But, I sat her down at the table and went over the two weapons (G19 and Taurus G2c) and how they worked, the controls, basic gun safety, grip, and had her dry fire a bunch before we went outside.
I had neglected to bring a large target, which would have been better, so she could see where she was hitting. But the actual range was buried in snow, so I improvised by grabbing assorted leftover beer cans out of the garbage can on the patio.
She shot the Glock first and hit dead center her first shot on a Rainier can at 10yds.
Got about 50% on the remaining four cans. Then did it again and got 4 out of 5.
She was confident and feeling good, so I brought out the Taurus. She liked the grip and the fact that it had a safety. She lined the sights up and only got one can out of five.
She remarked that the Taurus felt a lot snappier than the Glock and I explained that was due to the smaller size and gun design.
She wanted to go back to the Glock...
So, she said she really wants something with a red dot and I explained how that adds a lot of expense and bulk to a carry pistol and she really needs to focus on learning to shoot with sights better before thinking about going to a red dot.
When my folks return from Arizona, I plan to have her shoot my dad's Ruger EC9s and see if we can't rent a Sig P365, though I hear they are still shipping guns with issues, though less so.
Any suggestions on other sub-compact 9mms to have her try that would be softer shooting?
She really liked having a safety as well. Maybe a Ruger SR9c or the new Mossberg 9mm?
Shield 9mm might be good, too... Just don't know how they compare recoil-wise since I actually had a 9mm Shield but mostly carry .40 S&W for CCW, so all 9mms feel low recoil to me.
Oh, and the obligatory pics...
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She had shot a gun before and thanks to a previous boyfriend years ago that thought a .30-06 would be funny, she was a bit hesitant.
But, she watched me at my last GSSF match and wanted to learn how to shoot a pistol. At the range, she fondled a Sig P365 and loved it.
Well, I don't have one of those, so I brought my only 9mm pistols with us to the cabin with mild match rounds.
I thought the Glock G19 Gen 5 MOS with a Burris Fastfire 3 would be a good training gun so she could get used to the recoil and grip and not worry about sight alignment so much.
I'm not an instructor and don't consider myself very good at it since I find it difficult to teach what I've been doing for 40 years.
But, I sat her down at the table and went over the two weapons (G19 and Taurus G2c) and how they worked, the controls, basic gun safety, grip, and had her dry fire a bunch before we went outside.
I had neglected to bring a large target, which would have been better, so she could see where she was hitting. But the actual range was buried in snow, so I improvised by grabbing assorted leftover beer cans out of the garbage can on the patio.
She shot the Glock first and hit dead center her first shot on a Rainier can at 10yds.
Got about 50% on the remaining four cans. Then did it again and got 4 out of 5.
She was confident and feeling good, so I brought out the Taurus. She liked the grip and the fact that it had a safety. She lined the sights up and only got one can out of five.
She remarked that the Taurus felt a lot snappier than the Glock and I explained that was due to the smaller size and gun design.
She wanted to go back to the Glock...
So, she said she really wants something with a red dot and I explained how that adds a lot of expense and bulk to a carry pistol and she really needs to focus on learning to shoot with sights better before thinking about going to a red dot.
When my folks return from Arizona, I plan to have her shoot my dad's Ruger EC9s and see if we can't rent a Sig P365, though I hear they are still shipping guns with issues, though less so.
Any suggestions on other sub-compact 9mms to have her try that would be softer shooting?
She really liked having a safety as well. Maybe a Ruger SR9c or the new Mossberg 9mm?
Shield 9mm might be good, too... Just don't know how they compare recoil-wise since I actually had a 9mm Shield but mostly carry .40 S&W for CCW, so all 9mms feel low recoil to me.
Oh, and the obligatory pics...
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