Enzo_Guy
Active Member
For a little background I work in Severn, MD right on Burns Crossing Rd. My girlfriend lives in Millersville, which is the next exit on 97 so I'm enjoying the close proximity, however I get off at 5 and she gets off between 6 and 7 so I often find myself twiddling my thumbs in a parking lot somewhere. Until someone reminded me On Target is 2 exits down on 32! I don't think I need to say where my extra hours after work have been spent lately.
Well as the targets with nice groupings (been renting a S&W 617, a .22LR revolver could be on the horizon just for cheap plinking while I wait for her to get off work) have been piling up she has expressed an interest in tagging along with me one day (I got a beer drinking, gun shooting, country music loving Ravens fan, total wife material with this one
). As we were flipping through the rental guns available on their website and I was giving her a quick safety briefing on the different styles, triggers, etc. she points to a gun and proclaims she wants to shoot that one. All 5'2" of her points to a S&W 629! I desperately try to explain the lunacy of her shooting a .44 magnum until she has a good bit of experience with some larger calibers but she won't budge and thinks she will be able to shoot. Okay there, Dirty Harriet.
She finally had the opportunity to shoot with me. We go in and while she is filling out some stuff I say to the guy, "Put the Smith 629 on the table, let her hold it, then give me the Ruger .22LR pistol." She picks up the gun and can't even hold the sights straight on something and asks for something smaller and easier to shoot, guy plops the Ruger pistol up and she wants to shoot it instead.
She doesn't do bad but the Ruger is dirty as anything and the ammo keeps jamming or failing to eject, seeing her quickly losing interest I trade it up for a Smith stainless .38. Time for this girl to nut up or shut up. I load one in the chamber for her, BANG goes this .38 and she has eyes like dinner plates. I ask her how it went, she demands I load 6 more for her!
After blowing through a box of 50 I trade the Smith for a Walther PPK/S (I've never shot one either, so it looked like fun). She LOVES that little PPK, it hammer bites the hell out of me. I explain to her it used to be James Bond's preferred gun and she think it's even cooler. So she went from being Dirty Harriet to Jane Blonde in one night and now for christmas she wants a Walther PPK. Don't think I could ask for a better woman at this point.
On the ride home she is telling me how much fun she had and how I'm now not allowed to go to the range without her. Then she says, "But I still want to shoot that big 40-something magnum thing."
I think I'm just going to rent her a Smith 686, load it with some hot .357s and tell her it's a .44 magnum.
Well as the targets with nice groupings (been renting a S&W 617, a .22LR revolver could be on the horizon just for cheap plinking while I wait for her to get off work) have been piling up she has expressed an interest in tagging along with me one day (I got a beer drinking, gun shooting, country music loving Ravens fan, total wife material with this one
). As we were flipping through the rental guns available on their website and I was giving her a quick safety briefing on the different styles, triggers, etc. she points to a gun and proclaims she wants to shoot that one. All 5'2" of her points to a S&W 629! I desperately try to explain the lunacy of her shooting a .44 magnum until she has a good bit of experience with some larger calibers but she won't budge and thinks she will be able to shoot. Okay there, Dirty Harriet.She finally had the opportunity to shoot with me. We go in and while she is filling out some stuff I say to the guy, "Put the Smith 629 on the table, let her hold it, then give me the Ruger .22LR pistol." She picks up the gun and can't even hold the sights straight on something and asks for something smaller and easier to shoot, guy plops the Ruger pistol up and she wants to shoot it instead.
She doesn't do bad but the Ruger is dirty as anything and the ammo keeps jamming or failing to eject, seeing her quickly losing interest I trade it up for a Smith stainless .38. Time for this girl to nut up or shut up. I load one in the chamber for her, BANG goes this .38 and she has eyes like dinner plates. I ask her how it went, she demands I load 6 more for her!
After blowing through a box of 50 I trade the Smith for a Walther PPK/S (I've never shot one either, so it looked like fun). She LOVES that little PPK, it hammer bites the hell out of me. I explain to her it used to be James Bond's preferred gun and she think it's even cooler. So she went from being Dirty Harriet to Jane Blonde in one night and now for christmas she wants a Walther PPK. Don't think I could ask for a better woman at this point.
On the ride home she is telling me how much fun she had and how I'm now not allowed to go to the range without her. Then she says, "But I still want to shoot that big 40-something magnum thing."
I think I'm just going to rent her a Smith 686, load it with some hot .357s and tell her it's a .44 magnum.
