My first date

Never would have thought it.

At the range tonight, two good looking women with a new pistol and no idea what to do with it.

I spent three hours wrapped around these two, shooting positions, stance, trigger squeeze, sight patterns, grips, the whole course.

I may be off lupron, but it is still working. Loved doing the task, but wasn't till later I realized that if I had any hormones about me that I would have decked one or both in a heartbeat.

Good news, they got an intro to handguns class for free. Bad news, I enjoyed it for the wrong reasons.

AAARRRGGHHH.

142,
Lol-recoil therapy is good for the soul. Glad that you had a good time. The women that my grandson and I meet at my gun club can out shoot both of us!
Bill

Haha.
I woulda tried scotch in my younger days.

You'll get it back. It takes time. And if the numbers stay low you may try TRT. But for now, intimacy can happen in other ways. LOL even with an S&W 642. Like I own. W/Laser grips.

Tony

The last woman that fired that 642 I have didn't score that night. She was married too. Unfortunately to a PCa HT patient. Me.

I haven't fired it since then I don't think. But I do pack it with my outdoors kits. Not for humans but for safety in the wild. I have fired my Tikka T3 a few times though. For target purposes. It's a terrific WinMag 308. But I don't hunt. But it too has dust on it lately. I wish I could shoot prostate cancer cells. I'd a had a blast with my dissected prostate.

I used to have a lot of fun with these guns and a couple other firearms but today I'm just way too busy.

Tony

142 said:

"They purred over my gun."

Well at least they did that!

Took my Canadian neighbors to the range last week as they have never shot any type of guns. The foxy wife was game and shot my Glock 17, but her husband was scared and wouldn't shoot at all. Neither would try my M&P 15 as it was just too scary looking.
Very disappointed in my S&W .380 bodyguard, so I will be trading it in for a Glock 27. One more addition of a M1A1 and I will be finished with my collection. I've had my custom 1911 for over 40 years now, and it's still the best pistol I have ever shot.
Tomorrow I'll be taking a neighbor and her daughter out to the desert as they just purchased 9mms and a shot gun. Her daughter has had some issues with a neighbor stalking her and felt she needs a gun for protection. It seems that a lot of women are buying guns now. i seem to be taking on the role of the neighborhood trainer.
I'll be glad when I get back to Idaho next week so I don't have to worry about being Calif. compliant anymore. Sure glad I had 10,000 rounds of .22LR and 5,000 rounds of .556 before the shortage started 2 years ago; it has helped me weather the storm.

I think they'll be back, but I'll have to shift range night. No phone numbers, I'm afraid.

Yeah, when the word "husband" came out, the idea of a phone number vanished. But unless the process involves a true accident, the husband is safe.

I'm glad to hear you at least got at least a few XX chromosome holder DNA on you - no matter how few. It's important.

142, You mentioned guns were ingrained. Where I grew up, kids got a real BB gun when they were about 10 and if they handled it correctly, they got a bolt action .22 rifle at 12 or 13. Hang on. It gets better!
Are you sitting down? My high school, Grades 9-12, (typically 14 to 17 year olds) had a rifle range in the basement. We had classes and had a rifle team. about two dozen target rifles were available for the students if they did not have their own. The ammo was supplied by the teacher.
Since I was a schmart boychik I skipped a grade and was also a little small for my age. I could not hold the heavy target rifles so... I would bring my own rifle on the school bus and keep it in my locker until I had class! Read that last sentence again!!! Other kids brought their guns too - just like the kids in Band brought their instruments and the kids in Art brought their sculptures.
We had to carry the gun in a case and were not allowed to have it loaded. No problem.
Nobody got shot. Nobody felt threatened. It was normal.
Can you imagine that today?
The school closed the rifle range in 1976 - well after I graduated.

The rifle I use for "target practice" (that some of you played with at GFMPH) is the same one I had in high school - a bolt action, target Mossberg. A 50+ year old classic.

Jeff

142,
I always enjoyed target shooting. I believe I can still shoot a flea off a fence post at 100 feet, maybe. It's such a cathartic sport really. Except for the first time I shot a 12 gauge and it knocked me back 6 feet into a tree dislocating my shoulder in the process. I learned real quick after that.

As for meeting women, well, it could happen. Though I didn't actually meet Paul at a range, we were competitive marksmen in the same club, and we are married. Maybe that's where it all began

although you probably wouldn't meet one at a shooting range, you need a nice Italian girl, 142. Besides the warm kisses and cooking abilities, only 16% of Catholic Italian women get married these days so that resolves that issue too.

I'm 11 weeks into a 16 week "Citizens Police Academy." (45 hours total)

Yesterday was Drive and Shoot day. They had 10 different types and sizes of hand guns - shotgun with slugs and an AR-15 that would shoot 3 round bursts that was TOO COOL.

There were 3 officers handling three shooters at a time... I stepped up first and was asked if I had shot a gun before I which said plenty of times... I was handed a Glock 40 cal and I placed four center mass shots... which turned some heads...

Then we spent several hours driving two squad cars around the timed obstacle course. I averaged 57 seconds and didn't run over any cones or miss a gate... Then one of the instructors drove the course in 49 seconds that was pretty impressive.