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I don't think your cut out for this ''Teaching'' thing.
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Look.
I don't think your cut out for this ''Teaching'' thing.
let's for the moment you assume it to be the UK, since I often post from there, I doubt very much that any husband would have gone on a wide-open forum like this one and given such a damning image of his wife to the rest of us.
I have a brother who is not mechanically inclined who wants his guns to just work. He is actually quite a safe individual with a firearm, he just needs help with repairs and if anything goes amiss. Honestly, without having the experience of firing a gun, the rest is boring trivia. It is once you feel the fire, the flash, the recoil that the rest of it starts to make sense. Would you consider yourself unready to begin training behind the wheel, because you do not know the inner workings of an internal combustion engine? Some safety rules are important, and I would focus on the big 4 and take said person with me. If they are not 5, and they have the general idea that say a .22 is capable of killing a grizzly with the perfect shot (Most newbies I have met regard .22s as a joke, and I tell the Bella Twin story. I emphasize that the odds are astronomical that nobody should ever attempt to hunt a bear with a .22 but emphasize that human skulls are thinner, and worst case scenarios happen, and if an expert markswoman was capable of taking the largest grizzly on record at the time, they are capable of carelessly killing a loved one with carelessness) and that they fly up to a mile and a half then I would go for itI'm getting back into shooting and my wife wants to shoot also. But I don't think she has what's needed to be a gun owner. It's a difficult thing to describe. She isn't detail oriented, doesn't care to know how things work, she just wants to use things, doesn't want to put any effort into anything unless it's the fun parts, if she does put in any effort, it's as little as possible, she doesn't read instructions or follow directions well. She has a hard time assembling anything or fixing something that comes apart. Almost like a lack of spatial awareness, I sometimes think if you gave her one of those tests of putting different shaped blocks into the proper holes, she would fail at it. A couple of specifics, we saw a gun on youtube and she wanted that one because she liked the color of it. Also I've been trying to do 5 minute training sessions in the evenings to get her familiar with a gun I have, how to load a magazine with ammo, put the magazine in the gun, work the slide, hold it, use the sights, just general familiarity and repetition on the 4 safety rules. She hasn't wanted to do any of that and recently said that she needs to just go shoot it.
All this has made me think there are more people, other than the usual and obvious set, that should not own guns. I know there are some obvious traits of those that shouldn't own guns, but I'm thinking there may be other less obvious traits, either by themselves or combined, that also mean someone shouldn't own a gun. I'm just having a hard time summing that up into a cohesive description. Any thoughts?
On the other hand Danica Patrick eagerly admits she has little idea how the cars work and she seems to operate them OK.
I'm getting back into shooting and my wife wants to shoot also. But I don't think she has what's needed to be a gun owner. It's a difficult thing to describe. She isn't detail oriented, doesn't care to know how things work, she just wants to use things, doesn't want to put any effort into anything unless it's the fun parts, if she does put in any effort, it's as little as possible, she doesn't read instructions or follow directions well. She has a hard time assembling anything or fixing something that comes apart. Almost like a lack of spatial awareness, I sometimes think if you gave her one of those tests of putting different shaped blocks into the proper holes, she would fail at it. A couple of specifics, we saw a gun on youtube and she wanted that one because she liked the color of it. Also I've been trying to do 5 minute training sessions in the evenings to get her familiar with a gun I have, how to load a magazine with ammo, put the magazine in the gun, work the slide, hold it, use the sights, just general familiarity and repetition on the 4 safety rules. She hasn't wanted to do any of that and recently said that she needs to just go shoot it.
All this has made me think there are more people, other than the usual and obvious set, that should not own guns. I know there are some obvious traits of those that shouldn't own guns, but I'm thinking there may be other less obvious traits, either by themselves or combined, that also mean someone shouldn't own a gun. I'm just having a hard time summing that up into a cohesive description. Any thoughts?
Have you read, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?" The book details two types of personalities: those who are interested mostly in form over function (romantic viewpoints focused on being "in the moment", and not on rational analysis), and those who seek to know details, understand inner workings, and master mechanics (classic viewpoints with application of rational analysis, vis-a-vis motorcycle maintenance).
Your wife sounds like she falls in the 'romantic' category, meaning how she views things and assigns value to them is likely based on appearance or fashion. Not a bad thing, but vastly different from the criteria that a 'classical' person would view s as important. If you can find a way to frame the discussion using an approach that makes sense to her values you'll probably have better luck. She doesn't have to be detail oriented to or know how a gun works to enjoy shooting. The trick will be learning to present the material in a way that she will be interested and retain the information. A good place to start would be to accept your differences rather than lamenting them.
I understand about old bikes. I could explain how I know but that's not relevant. Let's just say that among the things I've torn completely down and put back together was a TT600 mill with a bent shift fork. Put a new top end in it while it was torn down. The guy who rode it had no idea how to fix it but he rode better than I could.Thats not including the choke or fuel petcock either. Even then some bikes have a very specific order to kick start, and decompression levers that have to be pulled at specific points on your "priming" kicks.
More like this:Durn, when I did a googoo search, I had hoped I would be looking at one of these:
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Back in 1969, the longhaired son of my bozz at a fast food place had one... he was a god to a shy 17yr old boy.
This would seem to indicate that no lessons are necessary for the entry-level participant...Tush Push, depends.)
She must be very pretty.
This would seem to indicate that no lessons are necessary for the entry-level participant...