How can I get my g/f too.....

[Wizeguy]

Get interested in shooting?
I've taken her shooting and thought my .45 was a bit loud and powerful. So I bought a P22 and took her back to the range..When we were done she said "OK put it away" (story of my life) now she wants nothing to do with guns...Should I keep pressing the issue about home protection or just drop it?

[Jvanasjr]

is the weapon used for home defense? If so it may good to he;p her to see that its in her best interest to know how to use it if your not there.

It may also be helpfull to let her pick out a weapon that she wants to shoot. Go to a range that rents them and let her pick a few and try them out. I know it helped with my wife and she now also has her own weapon and CPL.

[Hockey9019]

Mine will shoot, shoot, and shoot.


When I ask if I can shoot again, she looks at me and says "I'm the one with the gun, get your own"


Thats when I knew she was a keeper!

[hopeitsfast]

Gonna sound rude but.... show her stories like the one today at the college and point out other things as they happen(they will,watch the news) and explain how she has to not be a victim be cause "you would be lost if anything happened to her". Sounds good don't it?:biggrin:

[genesis]

don't force the issue. it will just make her dislike firearms more. She's been exposed, now let it marinate. Aks her to go shoot when you go shoot, but don't be upset when she says no.
If she's going to want to be a firearm owner, she'll let you know when she's ready.
The last thing we need is a pissed off female with a gun:fur3:

[mishooter]

My wife loves shooting clays--even has her own 20 ga. O/U, but has little use for rifles and doesn't care for pistols at all. I don't push the issue. I like shooting and she's fine with that.

[Wizeguy]

My house was broken into while she was home (thank God they didn't get in) and I just want her to know how to protect herself and property in case it happens again.
When I show her where the guns are and how to use them, she gets that "OK, quit playing with them and just put them away!"

[mishooter]

My house was broken into while she was home (thank God they didn't get in) and I just want her to know how to protect herself and property in case it happens again.Maybe you'd be better-off installing an alarm system. You see...

When I show her where the guns are and how to use them, she gets that "OK, quit playing with them and just put them away!"It's kinda looking like she doesn't much like guns or the thought of using them.

You know: Your mate doesn't have to like what you like or believe as you believe, as long as you each give each other the freedom to like what you like and believe what you believe.

[Willard Of Oz]

Sit down with her and have her listen to this...all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3vWsa4ags

Unarmed woman at home during home invasion

[mullinsn2000]

My wife is not a real big fan of guns. She promised me that someday soon she will go to the range with me and shoot one of my handguns. Well today I was telling her about the shooting at HFCC and she asked me "wasn't their someone there that had a liscense to carry a gun like you do?". This is when I explained to her the Criminal Empowerment Zones. Her reaction to that was "Thats stupid, do they think that will keep a psycho from bringing a gun?" and I told her that they (anti's) actually believe this. Her reaction showed a little dent in her non-shooting armor and I believe she will learn to shoot. She may not like it but I believe she will learn to be able to defend herself and our son in our home if I am not there or incapacitated.

[cachemerc]

Get interested in shooting?
I've taken her shooting and thought my .45 was a bit loud and powerful. So I bought a P22 and took her back to the range..When we were done she said "OK put it away" (story of my life) now she wants nothing to do with guns...Should I keep pressing the issue about home protection or just drop it?
you can sell me the p22 ive been looking for one

[huntmeister]

Get interested in shooting?
I've taken her shooting and thought my .45 was a bit loud and powerful. So I bought a P22 and took her back to the range..When we were done she said "OK put it away" (story of my life) now she wants nothing to do with guns...Should I keep pressing the issue about home protection or just drop it?

Don't push her... the more you push the issue the more she will retreat from it sounds cliche but it's true, peple avoid those things they dont like.
Take small step's with her, it sounds like you should make her introduction into firearms and shooting slow. rather then jump in the water and swim method.

Some people enjoy shooting and some don't but, they do retain the knowledge of learning how and why they should be able too.

Believe it or not there are even cops that don't care to shoot or train with their firearms and only reason they have a gun is because there required to carry one at work.

My wife did'nt care to shoot alot eiather... just did'nt care too, but was intersted in learning how to shoot, so she could if she had too,needed to.

I got her an old S&W m-10 service revolver that I trained her on,installed some Ajax purple pearlite grips, first let her look it over empty, and ask questions, showed how to reload aim,fire etc.. she shot it hitting the target perfectly and was confident with knowing how to use it and where it was if she needed it and that was good enough for her, and that was that, no interest in going to the range and having fun, and there was no forceing the issue to.

[joe_robi]

when i opened this thread i was thinking it was something else:wow:

[Thanis]

My wife was unsure about firearms. Naturally she knows the basics of every firearm and has shot them. I don't own a lot, but she felt for home SD she could just use one of my extra. I'm not 100% sure why, but I felt she need to buy her own (even if it was the same as one of the ones I owned). I don't like sharing the responsibility of my firearms even with my wife.

I suggested a pistol or shotgun. She went with a P99C 9mm.

I think one of the reasons she became interested in shooting (and ownership) was:

1) Because I told her I needed her to take responsibility for my safety, and in my opinion, that involved her desiding what firearm was best for her and knowing how to use it.

2) I offered a few thoughts on different firearms, but was very reserved in getting to involved.

She purchased a firearm I would not have chosen (and only found out months later). It is her gun. When I think about the guns I own, I never think of it. She went on to get a CPL. Again, her choice.

So it was her choice and her responsibility. I guess that is why it has been a good experience.

[Roger Roney]

Looks like she is pretty dead set against it right now. Other than asking her to learn enough to use one for self defense, it probably should be dropped for now.

See if you could get her to go to events like this. (http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?p=423933#post423933) My idea behind that is she could observe, maybe try, and/or you and her could volunteer. You on the line and her non-line such as paperwork, kitchen, or whatever.

Roger

[Wizeguy]

You guys all have good idea's...I'm not going to push the subject with her but hopefully she comes around before some nutjob decides to mess with her.

[who dat]

Get a different GF.:)

[Rugergirl]

OK I'll jump in an offer my womans perspective here.
I'm an adult and I realize it is my responsiblity to protect myself and the ones I love. Sure hubby is very protective, when he's home, but that is only half of the day. I work from home, alone for half of the day while he is at work and my daughter is at school.
Knowing that crime never calls ahead to make an appointment, I understand that bad things can happen to good people at any time. I prefer the comfort of knowing that if I should ever need to protect myself or my loved ones that I am skilled enough and equiped enough to do what I may at anytime need to do.
Tell your girlfriend how much you love her and what you would do to protect her. Once she understands that part and adjusts to it, maybe enventually she will start to think of what could happen when you are apart and she might even decide that self protection is as important as having a protector who can't always be there.

[007bondjamesbond007]

My Wife is not a big fan of shooting. She can put 8 rounds in the black with my Kimber. She said it was to easy and got bored. My wife got more interested since we started the CPL class. I am also thinking of getting shotgun and letting shot skeet or trap. I think hitting hitting her shooting clay pigeons would be more challenging. Oh by the way how do you cook clay pigeons?

[garyjt]

Get interested in shooting?
I've taken her shooting and thought my .45 was a bit loud and powerful. So I bought a P22 and took her back to the range..


The P22 is still a kind of a "mean and nasty and heavy and masculine looking" kind of gun.


YOu should have got her something prettier and cleaner..........


........ like a 22 nickel plated revolver with pearl handles that have roses on them.


Maybe in a Western cowboy/cowgirl style like the HiStandard Double Nine, or a very small revolver like the Charter Pathfinder.

My tiny little nickel plated pearl handled Davis Derringer is pretty - girls/women have liked thoes for 150 years. Every female that has seen my little 22 silver derringer has fell in love with it, they all think its cute.


Start out with her shooting "22 shorts", with almost no noise at all, and no recoil at all.

You could even start her with "22 CB caps", which are almost silent or like a bb gun.


What you have to remember, is that the female ear, is EXTREMELY sensitive to/ and irritated by: loud noise. That is why little boys are attracted to loud things like trains, jet airplanes, cars, guns, power tools, etc. but why little girls step back and shy away from those same loud things. Watch little girl and boy toddlers in a group where something is loud, and see the difference - which kids(boys) get closer, and which kids(girls) step back. It becomes a sub-consious kind of thing where females are prone to shy away from anything that they perceive or know is going to be loud. A .22 loaded with silent .22 Caps ammo , changes everything.

[garyjt]

My Wife is not a big fan of shooting. She can put 8 rounds in the black with my Kimber.



She said it was to easy and got bored.


I am also thinking of getting shotgun and letting shot skeet or trap. I think hitting hitting her shooting clay pigeons would be more challenging.


Shooting at paper targets, esp at a gun range which is a very loud place to be, is very boring.


If my wife wanted to take me to the gun range, more than once a year, I would say the same thing.

I dont like it.

I dont want it.

I dont have a good time at gun ranges.

Even I hate shooting paper targets at a loud shooting range with a bunch of jerks around you. You can never relax at a pubic shooting range, because you never know what stupid thing the guy down the firing line is going to do. What is fun about that?


If I was introduced to guns at a shooting range (instead of on a farm and in the woods), I might not like shooting guns either. Shooting ranges are terrible places to be.

I never go to a range, unless I absolutely have to. Its loud. There are too many jerks and people who dont know how to handle guns safely. There are too many restrictions since you are surrounded by lots of people. You cannot relax and combine a nice casual time, since a shooting range is not relaxing, it is not casual, it is not quiet, it is not secluded .

A shotgun is fun, but very loud, and could hurt her shoulder afer an afternoon of shooting, unless its a 410 - but still, now you are on to something!

Make shooting fun!.......... a game.

Take her out in the woods, and do some plinking, trick shooting, shooting at tin cans, water balloons, moving targets, cans on a string, throw up some cans in the air, shoot at a tin can on the ground and keep it moving, do some speed shooting from the hip, etc.

Combine shooting a 22, with an warm quiet friendly afternoon casually strolling thru the clean woods with her new gun. Its a fun thing for everyone. How can someone not like strolling thru the woods looking at the animals, listening to woodpeckers, etc with a 22 on your hip?

Even better if you can do it on horses.


When I ask my woman( all the women I ever knew) if shethey wants to go shooting, she/they knows that what it really translates to, is an afternoon of being out in the woods in the fresh air away from everyone, away from all the jerks in the world, and in a happy place among the trees and hills and streams.

[johnson27885]

My wife had been to the range with me a couple of times and her reaction was always "ho hum". I had been trying to get her to take a CPL class for a long time and she finally agreed (just to shut me up I think). After she took the class and learned some stats about violent crime (not to mention how to properly shoot - I'm not the most patient teacher), she went and applied for her CPL the following day. I think hearing the same things I preached coming from someone else made the light bulb in her head turn on. Now she won't leave home without her gun.

[Rugergirl]

What you have to remember, is that the female ear, is EXTREMELY sensitive to/ and irritated by: loud noise. That is why little boys are attracted to loud things like trains, jet airplanes, cars, guns, power tools, etc. but why little girls step back and shy away from those same loud things. Watch little girl and boy toddlers in a group where something is loud, and see the difference - which kids(boys) get closer, and which kids(girls) step back. It becomes a sub-consious kind of thing where females are prone to shy away from anything that they perceive or know is going to be loud. A .22 loaded with silent .22 Caps ammo , changes everything.

Not always, you're generalizing here.
My favorite gun that we own is the GP100, loaded with .357 Magnum ammo it's kinda loud, but when I'm actually firing it I barely hear the noise, compared to others around me.
My favorite car is my 89 GT Mustang with the Flowmaster 40's, you car hear the car when it's two blocks away, but again when I'm driving it, the noise seems a lot louder to other people.
I find when I enjoy something I sort of tune out the sound to some extent. But when hubby fires the GP100 or gasp, I let him drive the GT, they both still sound quite impressive and the sound (or noise to some) is music to my ears.

[pgaplayerless]

You guys think you have it tough when trying to interest your significant others? Try doing it after finding out during the first shooting session with her that she is right-handed but left-eye dominant and cannot get herself to close her eye independently! :lol: That's what I have to deal with.

As for the handguns, my woman likes to play the "they are potentially dangerous and I don't want to touch it" game. The way I get around it is bit unconventional. :lol: I just stick the unloaded handgun in her pant's or jacket's pocket she is wearing inside the home and tell her "well i guess you are not going anywhere outside then since it's a felony without a CPL and I'm not taking it out!" :D

Doesn't take her long before she decides to touch it :D

[garyjt]

Not always, you're generalizing here.
My favorite gun that we own is the GP100, loaded with .357 Magnum ammo it's kinda loud, but when I'm actually firing it I barely hear the noise, compared to others around me.
My favorite car is my 89 GT Mustang with the Flowmaster 40's, you car hear the car when it's two blocks away, but again when I'm driving it, the noise seems a lot louder to other people.
I find when I enjoy something I sort of tune out the sound to some extent. But when hubby fires the GP100 or gasp, I let him drive the GT, they both still sound quite impressive and the sound (or noise to some) is music to my ears.

Yeah.

Im generalizing.

I am talking about 95% of females ( not the exceptions).

You know darn well that you are not typical.

Most females do NOT like the noise of a 357 magnum, and most females do NOT own an 89 GT Mustang with the Flowmaster 40's that you car hear when it's two blocks away.

My point still stands. I know. Ive done it dozens of times with dozens of females.

Even I, me, number 1, find it enjoyable to be out in the woods or on the farm out plinking with a .22.

Make shooting an "enjoyable activity", associated with uncrowded, uncongested, free, un-noisey, outing in our forests and streams playing shooting games, and it is much easier to get the average female out away from the busy congested city and traffic, away from noisey crowded smoky target ranges, for a nice fun day out in the fresh quiet clean air of the woods with a quiet 22.

[Joel216]

You might want to get her aquainted with a .22 rifle out in the woods or on a farm just plinking at pop cans. My GF loves shooting pop cans but gets board shooting paper.

[Mike1979]

SHOOT IDPA, Now that is FUN!!

[langenc]

How about shooting a 22 rifle for a starter?? At 'action' targets.