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<blockquote data-quote="watchcollector1968" data-source="post: 1048909" data-attributes="member: 5945"><p>My wife grew up having fired a shotgun...and she is quite good at it but it was only target type stuff.</p><p></p><p>When I met and married her, she kind of laughed a bit at my knife, light, gun love. When she first handled a pistol, she was as nervous as can be and just kind of looked at it like it was going to jump up and bite her.</p><p></p><p>Slowly I got her to handle them, learn how to check that they are unloaded, went to gun shows and all that. She finally agreed to get a handgun of her own...we went to the firing range and the rest is history.</p><p></p><p>She did not want to leave the range and kept demanding repeat trips. She has paid attention to the news, she has realized the importance of being able to defend herself and has developed the proper mindset.</p><p></p><p>She has had her permit for about a year now, carried (currently) a Ruger 9mm, is 100% familiar with it, perfect safe gun handling and can blast the 10 ring out of every target at 50 feet.</p><p></p><p>It never did much good at the very beginning to simply talk about self defense. But just having it start as a fun activity at the range worked...the rest followed along in short order.</p><p></p><p>I would suggest you forget all about movies and explaining real world danger. Just take her to a range, as she improves and is able to put more rounds on target I bet she will really start to like it just for fun...the rest will come in time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="watchcollector1968, post: 1048909, member: 5945"] My wife grew up having fired a shotgun...and she is quite good at it but it was only target type stuff. When I met and married her, she kind of laughed a bit at my knife, light, gun love. When she first handled a pistol, she was as nervous as can be and just kind of looked at it like it was going to jump up and bite her. Slowly I got her to handle them, learn how to check that they are unloaded, went to gun shows and all that. She finally agreed to get a handgun of her own...we went to the firing range and the rest is history. She did not want to leave the range and kept demanding repeat trips. She has paid attention to the news, she has realized the importance of being able to defend herself and has developed the proper mindset. She has had her permit for about a year now, carried (currently) a Ruger 9mm, is 100% familiar with it, perfect safe gun handling and can blast the 10 ring out of every target at 50 feet. It never did much good at the very beginning to simply talk about self defense. But just having it start as a fun activity at the range worked...the rest followed along in short order. I would suggest you forget all about movies and explaining real world danger. Just take her to a range, as she improves and is able to put more rounds on target I bet she will really start to like it just for fun...the rest will come in time. [/QUOTE]
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