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I finally talked the wife into going shooting at the range with me!

She's even open to the possibility of hunting now!

Any ladies got a favorite girly gun to recommend (handgun or hunting rifle)? My wife is a wee 'un.

Anyone else got a wife who's "into it?"

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My advice: stand behind her at all times. Her eagerness to join you at the range may have a deeper meaning.:bear_w00t:

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Please, please please, start her with a small caliber.

Maybe a .22 or a .380, something similar. You do not want to frighten her away with a .357 or a shotgun in the beginning.

Also good hearing protection to lessen the sound/shock.

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I would start her with a pink BB gun...slowly progress from there, always keeping a pulse on the state of your relationship.:wink:

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Get a Gemtech Oasis II.
She'll not be scared, and she'll love it.
and it'll be cheap to shoot as subsonic .22lr is about the same price as regular .22lr

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My wife LOVES to go shooting. Has her own 4" .357 Taurus revolver.

And while I think the suggestion to start with a small caliber is a good one, I disagree with the .22 cal or the .380 cal, unless you own one and it will become HER gun.

Having said that, look at the 'Lady Smith' line of revolvers. A nice 2" Lady Smith in .357 shooting .38 specials is THE revolver of choice for a LOT of ladies out there. And you should be able to find one for less than the $800 shown as retail.

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http://images.alibris.com/cover/c825310qj2c.jpg

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I agree with Wallew on the quality of the Lady Smiths. they are very nice. My grand mother carried one for years in her purse.

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Congrats! Now you will always have an excuse to go hunting!
My wife hunts with a Colt AR-15 full stock carbine, its light, accurate, fun to shoot, doesn't kick and kills white tail deer dead.
She has killed 4 with the AR and 2 with a .308 bolt before I got the AR.

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Hugo,

Is everything ok?? You're not planning a Dick Cheney hunting accident are you??

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A couple of things I've seen a dozen times at the range with new shooters:

1) With revolvers - new folks like to use 2 hands.....keep the second had back away from the gap between the cylinder and the barrel......I've see a lot of people with super nasty deep gas cuts, lost finger tips, nails blown off......this is a big problem with 357/41/44 Mags....35,000 - 45,000 PSI gas with wrech a hand.

2) Again the second hand with semi-autos that have slides that come back and cut the shit out of their thumbs and web on the off hand......

3) Just have them keep the second hand grasping their wrist or base of the strong hand....

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Thanks for all the replies so far.

This is a very important point in my situation. It has taken years for me to get to this point and if I scare her off now I may be hooped for quite some time. Maybe eventually I'll get her into something a wee bit bigger and a bikini... but no doubt not yet. I'm actually surprised she's willing to consider killing Bambi's mom.

Any other ladies favorites?

Tia.

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Pffffht.... pink BB gun, indeed. :36_1_30:

Ruger LCP for the purse..... if you can find one. :yes:

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A vote for a LadySmith .38 Special (or equivalent). You're a lucky man, Hugo.

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MY WIFE HAS THE RUGER P95 AN SHE SHOOT IT ALL THE TIME , it a 9mm ,,,,,,,,, unload the gun at home an let her learn to hold it , that way when you go to the range she well of learn that , an teach her how to load the clips at home , they way she feel better at the range , go to some one land if you know the owner , i have land my wife didnt like the range because of all the people when she was learning ,,, now the only gun my wife well not shot is my 7mm salvge ,, she like my ar an ak

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My wife started with a 10/22. Shot it for about a year and got good enough to put one in your ear.

One day out in the rock quarry she was standing there reloading as I was wasting milk jugs with my AK. She asked me to let her try that because it seemed like fun. Well that was 2 years ago and I haven't seen that AK since.

So if you see a 115 lb woman 50ish with blond hair holding a AK ya better be nice. :111:

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hugo we play a game in the woods i hang milk jugs on trees an she walk up to them an cap there asses at 15 to 20 away

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My wife likes her 870 best; gung-ho I'd say. She's a bit more shaky with pistols, but she likes her Kahr.

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http://www.gunsatcost.com/item/57905...ckett_Rif.aspx

Pink single shot 22.

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Well, if you're talking favorites, M1A. We love M1As. :yes:

You aren't planning to buy her a gun before you take her to the range, are you? I wouldn't recommend that. Let her get a little experience, then she can choose what she wants to shoot. I usually take first-time shooters to the 50-yard rifle range and let them shoot off the bench first. They start with a .22, and when they're comfortable and safe with that, they can try whatever else I've brought. I always bring a wide selection of guns when I take a new shooter to the range. I've found most of the people I take gravitate to the SKS and the AR15 (which is, I believe, the official girly gun). A 30-30 is often a good hunting rifle for little people, if you have one of those to bring. After the rifle range, we go to the "pistol pits," which is our range's plinking area. After shooting targets, we usually plink at spinning metal plates, cans, etc. You want their first day on the range to be fun and safe.

I suspect more women drop out of shooting because their husbands are accidently overbearing and annoy the bejeebers out of them and because they never develop the confidence to go shooting on their own than drop out because they were overwhelmed by a particular gun. When you're teaching her to shoot, pretend you're teaching a male friend to shoot. Tell her what you need to tell her, praise her when she does it right, shut the hell up and back off whenever you can! Don't do the "husband monologue" (you know, you keep up a running critique of every single move she makes, making her hyper self-conscious and homicidal), and don't let her do the "security blanket" thing women do. Women have a terrible tendency to be total slackers in the confidence department, often preferring to over-rely on their husbands and boyfriends in unfamiliar activities. Not only will the over-reliance prevent them from developing confidence in their skills, but it will usually eventually erode what confidence they do have and make the activity miserable for them. If you want her to stick with shooting for the long run, she's got to think of it as her thing and not just her husband's thing that she's tagging along for. As soon as she's learned enough to be safe on her own, encourage her to go shooting by herself or with other women.

Congratulations on getting your wife to go shooting with you. I know what it's like. It took me 15 years to get my husband to go shooting with me.

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I'll second this also--VERY GOOD ADVICE. I cut the web of my off-hand the first time I shot a friend's Glock at the range. Luckily it wasn't really that bad at all, but I damn sure learned my lesson......unfortunately the HARD way.

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Hi Maddie, my wife liked shooting the SKS also, but said it was to front heavy to be comfortable hunting with.
I think she just wanted the shiny new AR with the fancy Aimpoint sight on it.:Surrender:

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Irons, your wife is a clever, clever lass! :yes: Can't argue with her, though. If there was ever a rifle perfect for women, it's the AR15.

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Uh... er... but... yeah. Message received. Are we THAT bad? I'll try to hang back. I have a lady coworker who's "into it", maybe I'll hook them up. You're right, I'd rather have this work out well for her and if I muck this up I doubt she'll ever approach this with an open mind again. Sheesh, I feel like I'm plotting a threesome or something.

It has been a big surprise. Now I can fantasize about the wife in a bikini while shooting guns. Yum. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0000000-24.gif

So your hubby had no interest for years and gave in... does he love it now?

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LOL......:rofl:

ST

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Maddie has offered excellent advice. Remember, your objective is to arm your wife; to accomplish that she needs "emotional ownership" of the subject. Let her / help her achieve that.

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Most men are and so are most women. I probably notice it more because I've been involved in so many interests and hobbies where it's really obvious. I wasn't slamming guys, by the way. Women are complicit in this. I could write a book on this, but I'll refrain!

Yes, my husband finally went shooting with me. He's good, and he likes it. I wouldn't say he loves it. He could take it or leave it, and he still hasn't bought anything more than his trap shotgun (which my shooting buddy and I sort of pushed him into buying). He does sometimes compete in trap shoots, and he learned to reload.

By the way, it wasn't so much he gave in and finally went shooting with me. It came about because he had a coworker who shoots at the same gun club I do, and the coworker was going on and on enthusiastically about my M1A. My husband didn't even know I had an M1A, and I don't think he really knew what an M1A was (it was a long time before he stopped calling it an M1A1). He didn't really pay attention to my guns, and didn't know how many I had or what kind I had. (When he married me, I already had more guns than he could recognize or keep up with.) Anyway, hubby embarassed himself in front of the guy by saying, "She doesn't have an M1A. That's a .22." (I'd recently shown my husband a 10/22 I'd bought to try to lure him to the gun club.) When the guy kept saying it was an M1A, my hubby remembered I had a Swedish mauser and suggested the guy was mistaking my Swedish mauser for an M1A! He called me from work to settle the argument and was embarassed to find out that his coworker knew more about my guns than he did. When he came home that night, I let him look at the M1A. He looked thoughtful and finally said, "Maybe I will go shooting with you sometime." It turned out that he's very, very good at it, and he likes it. The drawback is that he now knows how much money I've spent on guns and ammo. :mad_m:

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I usually just double any number my wife tells me on anything and I'm close.

--Never went trap shooting, what kinda choke you use for that if any (distance)?

Friend of a friend has a 9mm handgun with another rimfire top end (switchable). I'm thinking the wife may like. I'll know more next weekend.

Edit to add: I'm hoping it may be like this: http://www.glockworld.com/22lr.htm

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Full choke.

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We cheat :smile:, we use AA Skeet chokes! :RockOn:

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my daughter picked up her ladysmith for $605 locally last week...

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Lol! I've been known to do that. I don't shoot skeet or trap much anymore. I have trifocal contact lenses now (and astigmatism), and while my optometrist spent forever adjusting them for shooting (he specializes in that), my eyes just can't track something that small moving that fast well enough to shoot it. I get maybe half of them on a good day, but everyone else up there is a competition shooter, and it's just kind of embarassing and demoralizing! I suppose if I did it more I'd develop more of a sense of timing, but I never really liked it enough to invest the time.

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This time of year, it is windy here. This year exceptionally so. Like 40 mph a few days ago and ~20 most days. Makes skeet uhm shall we say, challenging. lol

Hope that next month is a balance of wind and temp, but if things are like they usually are, the winds won't die down until we are in the middle of the summer's heat.

First calm day and I'm going! :yippee:

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my wife used to love her SKS, then she got her hands on a M1 Garand.
she likes being able to reach way out there and touch things.
we were shooting at a piece of tree stump hanging from a chain at about 175 yards, then she got a hold of the M1 and that became her favorite. She liked the increase of impact power with the '06
beauty of the M1 Garand is it is gas operated semi automatic and has a very minimal recoil, but devastating at 600 yards plus.