Life never ceases to amaze me.

[meanmike8665]

I am lucky. I have been offered a couple of nice guns for her a time of two, but she is a better shot and I would have never got to enjoy the new guns! My daughter shooting is just icing on the cake and her husband is also shooting.

Michael

 

[nkbj]

The better 2/3's is getting that look in her eyes about the light weight fifty smoothbore. :thumbsup:

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Two thoughts,

One; always stop the days shooting while they are having fun (keeps them coming back).

Two; never take them hunting for a game you have not taken yourself. . . . .My Wife still won't let me live down that "The poor Hunter" hasn't taken a bear, but his wife has! it's just wrong :redface:

 

[fcderosa]

:hmm: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, :rotf:

 

[William O.]

That is great! I wish my girlfriend would say something like that to me and want to include her son in something like that.

 

[Alden]

I have been whipped more than once by a woman...

Small world!

:wink:

 

[dikman]

Not sure about the photo, though - it looks like she's just holding the rifle and there's a big lump of cotton-wool stuck in the end of the barrel! :rotf:

 

[azmntman]

I have been whipped more than once by a woman...

TMI!! TMI!! :rotf:

My wife can out shoot me with an -06 but she flinchs like mad with BP so thats all we shoot when she goes out now! :blah:

 

[Ken Cormier]

Nope aliens got them

 

[RADeO]

I have been whipped more than once by a woman.

Be very, very careful making statements like that Bill. Especially around this crowd. :rotf:

 

[trent/OH]

I have been offered a couple of nice guns for her a time or two,
Michael

Somebody tried to trade you a couple of guns for your women folk? They might be a bit perturbed if you'd taken him up on the trade.

 

[satx78247]

It's about to get REALLY EXPENSIVE around your house, with 2 "shooting ladies".
(If your experience is at all like mine.)

When we were in college, I made the mistake of getting "Duckie" interested in shooting handguns, when we were a "new romance".
(She wanted a suitable "girl's gun", so I let her pick out what she wanted at the local gunstore for Christmas '67. = She saw & "fell in love with" a factory engraved Colt's Detective Special.= YIKES.)

When I rotated back to CONUS in 1971 for grad school, I took a job as a City Marshal and bought myself a polished S&W Model 60 to carry "off duty".
I came down to breakfast one Sunday morning & found that the Model 60 was "peeping out of" the right rear pocket of a pair of size 6 Chic jeans. = The somewhat one-sided conversation went something like this: My lovely lady said, "I decided that this little gun is 'just way to feminine' for a lawman to carry. Why don't you go buy that Gold Cup that you've been admiring at Bob's?". --- "Get yourself some coffee, Honey. The ham & french toast will be ready in a minute. By the way, Bob showed me some pretty ivory grips that will fit this revolver. Don't you think that will look cute?"
(GEE THANKS, Bob!!!)

Years later, both of us "got into black powder" & doing SCV/Confederate memorial ceremonies. - This of course meant CSA uniforms & "appropriate ladies attire", as well as swords/1851 Navy Colt's revolver, etc.,etc.
(In case you don't do that sort of thing, a CSA soldier can get by quite well with 2 uniforms. Otoh, ladies "just have to have a fashionable wardrobe".= OUCH.)

After we adopted our daughter, "Noe" decided that she should have WBTS gear "of my very own".
(I won't bore you with how EXPENSIVE that teenage girls are, especially if they decide to "get into field archery", in addition to cheerleading, a car, debutante balls, etc, etc, etc.!!!)
When she went off to college, my Sweet 16 Browning went with her, "as a loan". - Haven't seen it since.
(And then she got my PPK, when she went onto the UT faculty.= !@#$%!)

with my sincere sympathy, satx

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Till I figure this out, I'll keep the rifle, buy the tomahawks, and make the throwing range.

YOU FOOL! :shake:

That rifle is no longer your's, it is now their's... until you buy another rifle so each can have "her's. So you'll need to get yourself a rifle too... that's two new or "nused" rifles....

If ya haven't the gear already, you are going to end up buying clothes for them, tentage and cooking gear for all three of you to camp, PLUS you should start looking for a proper vehicle to haul all of that stuff (if you don't already own such) that's also good at getting out of muddy fields at the end of a weekend of camping, (I'd suggest something with a roof rack and a trailer hitch and use a hitch-n-haul platform rather than a trailer).

:idunno:

It happened to me with my little girl (now she's 20 and has decided to do Olympic Recurve Bow in addition to living history...them bows run the same as a new rifle..) :shocked2: So buckle up it's gonna get pricey...

On the other hand..., there are the memories and the time spent with the family ... :grin:

LD

 

[satx78247]

YEP. You spoke THE TRUTH!!!

yours, satx

 

[meanmike8665]

We stopped talking about how much our hobby cost.
We also travel to Oregon, Idaho, and Arizona for week long shoots. It is only money.

Michael

 

[ord sgt]

My wife goes to the range with me,every weekend. Saturday past, flintlock rifles were packed into the truck bed. One for her, a left hand Tennessee mountain rifle and my Lancaster county long rifle. Only the Tenn. mountain rifle comes out, once we arrive at the gun club.
Now, the rifle is almost as tall as my wife (vertically challanged she is). I get to do all the loading and she gets to do the shooting from the bench.
All up and down the line are the
plastic autoloaders that have a loud bark. Other firing stops every time there is a loud boom and a cloud of white smoke.
One group looked like a fleur-de-lis. .50 calibre holes are easily seen at 50 yards. Both her and the rifle are shooters.

 

[George T.]

I would spend my time thanking the lucky stars!

You are indeed a lucky man!

Geo. T.

 

[ChrisHarris]

I got into BP first. I took the my 8yr old son with me after about a year of learning on my own. Then I took his older sister. Both kids are ADDICTED.

I played hookie from work one day and took my wife. She's not too experienced with guns anyways, and BP was intimidating to her. All it took was one day at the range. She enjoys it, but doesn't come as often as the kids.

I bought one of Mike Lange's "rugrat" rifles for my son last summer when he turned 10. Mom was full of encouragement. I thought I'd have to beg her to let me buy a 10yr old kid a BP muzzleloader, but she smiled real big when I asked her if it was alright. "Go ahead," was all she said.

I'm gonna buy one for my daughter in May, when she turns 13. When I asked my wife about that a few months ago, she just said, "Might as well..... you already bought one for Mikey last year." Twist my arm ......... :rotf:

 

[pa woods roamer]

[/URL][/img] The Missus has cleaned My clock more than once. Also, A few of the other hot shot shooters too !! She won this custom Hawken on a Ticket Drawing....

 

[Wes/Tex]

Ladies have a real way of keeping you humble sometimes! You're in good (?) company! :thumbsup: