My wife and a Ruger Mk II

[fiasconva]

Several years ago my wife and I were at my gun club's indoor range and she was shooting my old H&R 922. This guy was a few lanes down with his nephew shooting also. He walked over and wanted to show us the Mk II he had just bought at a pawn shop for about $250. I showed him the H&R and he asked if his nephew could shoot is since he had never shot a revolver before. He asked my wife if she'd like to shoot the Ruger while his nephew was shooting the H&R. She said sure and he said don't get upset if you don't do well, it takes a lot of getting used to and he wasn't doing very well with it. She took the Ruger and put all 10 shots in the 10 ring at 7 yds. and handed the gun back to him. He just looked at her, back to the target, and took the gun and walked away without another word. He was a nice friendly guy so it was all I could do to keep a straight face. I was really proud of my girl. She can shoot anything!

 

[Yaworski]

Hard to shoot the Mk II if you're not used to it? Sounds like the guy was making excuses for his own ineptitude.

When I was first dating my wife, I mentioned that I was going to the range and she said, "Gun range?" I was expecting a "guns are evil lecture" but then she said, "Can I go?" Turns out that her ex-husband was a cop and had taken her to the range exactly once. She shot better than he did and it embarrassed him so he never took her again. Over the years she wound up with a Mk II, J-frame, and a Dan Wesson 15-2. She never shot bullseye but shot pins and plates.

 

[Laserbait]

Atta girl! I love it when women shoot well, and enjoy it!

When I met my future ex wife, we went shooting a lot. I walked her up from 22LR, 32 ACP, 9mm, 38 Spec, 357 Mag etc all the way to the 480 Ruger and 454 Casull. It was always hilarious watching guys my size flinch like hell when she would touch off the 454.

I still remember the first shot that she took with it, went straight through the bullseye, dead center at 10 yards. Range officer (a fellow about 65 years old) came over . He saw all 5' 2" 105 lbs of her, with my 7.5" SRH and the one hole through the bullseye. He just shook his head, and walked out of the range. Hahaha

 

[Dan in MI]

I train women with a MK-II. I have one with a red dot that you can't miss with, gives them confidence right off the bat.

 

[Bad Barlow]

I train women with a MK-II. I have one with a red dot that you can't miss with, gives them confidence right off the bat.

I also trained "ladies" ,and the red dot is a great training aid. It really helps (anyone) understand the dynamics of shooting a handgun.
Keep up the good work!

 

[contender]

My Miss Penny & I have taught hundreds of ladies over the last few decades to shoot. And if you can get them BEFORE someone has done stupid stuff,, they can surprise a LOT of guys with their abilities.

No macho attitude that says; "I'm a man,, I can handle it"!

But if taught properly,, AND gradually built up to more recoiling handguns,, MANY ladies can easily out shoot a lot of men.

 

[Bad Barlow]

My Miss Penny & I have taught hundreds of ladies over the last few decades to shoot. And if you can get them BEFORE someone has done stupid stuff,, they can surprise a LOT of guys with their abilities.

No macho attitude that says; "I'm a man,, I can handle it"!

But if taught properly,, AND gradually built up to more recoiling handguns,, MANY ladies can easily out shoot a lot of men.

In my classes, no husbands,boyfriends,or mothers were allowed. Too much personal baggage and " unteaching".

 

[contender]

Bad Barlow,, that's an identical rule we have. Miss Penny run the class. The only men allowed in our clinics were her hand picked,, GENTLEMEN,, who didn't have a macho attitude or projected any dominant male impressions. We would have used female instructors,, but we only had one who was qualified, and we'd needed 3-4 more.

By removing any familiar male presence in clinics,, it allows the ladies to open up & truly simply learn stuff the correct way. I have a lot of fun stories of little things that happened because we do it that way.

Now we did allow mothers & daughters to take clinics together. But we always separated them to where they had different instructors on the line.

 

[Hertervillian]

My youngest is a fine example of this. Her first trip to the pistol range at Ft Leanardwood found her under the eye of a DI. She always has this oddly casual style of shooting, and was getting a correction. They pulled her target and to the surprise of said DI she had just shot an expert level round. One of her favorite moments was hearing "that's better than I can shoot, work on your stance".

She had been shooting rimfire since 2nd grade. At that time I had a SIG P225 9mm that she shot the heck out of.

 

[Yaworski]

In my classes, no husbands,boyfriends,or mothers were allowed. Too much personal baggage and " unteaching".

As students or just hangers on?

 

[WendyZXZ]

I train women with a MK-II. I have one with a red dot that you can't miss with, gives them confidence right off the bat.

Great choice for a pistol, the Mark II is one on our list it would pair up nicely with the 10/22 we have. We have a Browning Buckmark and that is the rimfire pistol we use to help newbies along with pistol shooting. It is fun to see newcomer plink and do well with a .22 and learn the basics!

 

[Bad Barlow]

As students or just hangers on?

Basically, if the the mentioned persons accompanied the female student, they were asked to leave.
I can't remember a single instance when a student objected to being left alone.

 

[contender]

We also would not allow any "lookers" or "hangers on" that "Just wanted to watch" with our ladies. And it was fun to watch Miss Penny "remove" any man that THOUGHT he could hang around.