Wife shot her first rifle today

[Mr. Brooks]

I recently bought .22 rifles for the wife and myself. A henry lever-action for her and a Marlin model 60 for me.

Got out to the range today and got to put some rounds downrange. Had a great time and just had to brag on her a little.

She struggled with the sights for a little while, but she got it figured out and started shooting great. Her last group was her best, using my model 60.

That's a 8" target at about 10 meters. I'm stoked with that!

Edited March 30, 2012 by Mr. Brooks

[Jonnin]

good start! My wife likes that targt too, hard to find them sometimes though.

[gunrunner32]

That's some good shooting. My wife will only shoot my AR's and the .22's. Her favorite is (now hers) a 10/22 scoped w/ bull barrel, but I've got 4 so I can share.

[Mr. Brooks]

good start! My wife likes that targt too, hard to find them sometimes though.

I just get them at Wally world.

[Mr. Brooks]

That's some good shooting. My wife will only shoot my AR's and the .22's. Her favorite is (now hers) a 10/22 scoped w/ bull barrel, but I've got 4 so I can share.

I'm still working with her on the AR. The stoutest thing she's fired so far is a .22MAG.

She asked to go get some more targets and ammo today, said she wants to work on her accuracy with the lever action some more.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

That's cool. My wife had a blast at the pistol range last time. She's actually a natural shooter

with the Sig. It's good to see a wife or a girlfriend out there.

[gunrunner32]

Well we can get the wife's together to run them through a fun day of torture. I've got a few my wife hates to fire or flat out refuses to fire. Mainly my 454 lever, my steel skeleton stocked AK and my Enfield in 303 British and she's a little weird about shotguns, she loves to shoot the Mossy Tac Cruiser, the 535 and the coach gun but won't touch the Winchester 97, all being 12 ga.

Still though I'm glad she has taken an interest in shooting, and it's good to see that there are other wives that are joining their husbands at the range.

[Mark@Sea]

Nice shootin.

[Jonnin]

mine has her own 30-30, 10-22, and the AR is really hers. She won't shoot the heavy concussion/loud stuff or the really, really punishing recoil stuff. The 30-30 is about as much recoil as she wants if doing more than 5 shots. My 223 pistol's concussion wave/noise also aggravates her. She does pretty well with our auto 12 ga shotgun for 3 gun with light ammo, but isnt too keen on full loads with it or any other.

To be honest, I don't care for the brutal recoil in long guns either, so I can't fault her for that.

[Mr. Brooks]

Well we can get the wife's together to run them through a fun day of torture. I've got a few my wife hates to fire or flat out refuses to fire. Mainly my 454 lever, my steel skeleton stocked AK and my Enfield in 303 British and she's a little weird about shotguns, she loves to shoot the Mossy Tac Cruiser, the 535 and the coach gun but won't touch the Winchester 97, all being 12 ga.

Still though I'm glad she has taken an interest in shooting, and it's good to see that there are other wives that are joining their husbands at the range.

Those are some pretty good thumpers, it's not really a surprise she's not all that excited about shooting them. My wife is nowhere near ready for anything like that yet.

We need to have a Clarksville area TGO shoot at Montgomery county shooting complex or somewhere.

[gunrunner32]

For a little while in 2010 there was a gathering at Owl Hollow. It was a bit of a drive, but it was a good time. I would like to see something like that again. I would be down either at OH or MCSC. It'd be a good excuse for my wife to go shooting again and drag my daughter along for a little .22 fun.

[Mr. Brooks]

I went to one of the owl hollow shoots, I think back in '08 or so. Had an awesome time! MCSC would be quite a bit closer, but I would try to make either one for sure.

[gunrunner32]

Well according to MCSC (http://www.shoottn.org/Calendar/calendar.php) every weekend in April they are open for rifle and pistol when the RSO is present. Just don't try to shoot a Ranch Hand/Mares Leg on the pistol range...I got yelled at last time I did.