I must be something right for a change.

[fiasconva]

I was talking to my granddaughter this morning and she informed me that she will be 21 in 8 months. She wants her own handgun for her birthday and then wants to get her concealed handgun permit. We've been shooting together for few years until the ammo shortage and COVID shut us down. Looks like we're going to be finding out which S&W will be best for her and I am so looking forward to it.

 

[lihpster]

You have 8 months to find out what fits her needs. Sounds like a fun time! Lucky!

 

[lihpster]

Great! Buy her a gun! Teach her safety rules, and how to shoot.

This trigger control chart should help:

Wow! Col. Jeff Cooper was reincarnated as a piece of paper!

 

[fiasconva]

We've already done the safety rules, teaching how to shoot, etc. She's a righty that's left eye dominate so it was a little bit of a challenge. She loves the Victory and shoots the heck out of it. She's a little recoil sensitive with the 9mm so we're working hard on that. She's a smart young woman and a determined one too so the recoil sensitivity will be worked out too. I never have to worry about going to the range alone if she isn't in class. She'll go with me in a heartbeat and always asks when we are going again after a trip there.

 

[Mule Packer]

Years ago, when we were living in a different state, my oldest son, his wife, and their kids came out to visit for a week or so. Their oldest, my grandson, was eight years old at the time.

I had been teaching Hunter Safety for 28 years. One morning, I suggested to my son and daughter-in-law that we take my grandson, Blake, out to the range and let him shoot my little Henry single-shot "mini-twenty-two"...a great gun for not only teaching firearm safety, but also for teaching sight picture, one of the harder things for new shooters to grasp.

My daughter-in-law, who was not raised with guns, looked at me incredulously and said, "But, Dad, he's eight years old!"


I replied, "I know, honey, and it's my fault. I should've started him three years ago."

Since that time, Blake has become a very responsible adult and responsible shooter. For his 22nd birthday, I presented him with my old Ruger Bearcat, the first handgun he ever shot. He was ten years old at the time and I had taken him with me on his first pack trip into a wilderness area with the pack string.

When we had made camp at the trailhead, I had my .45 Ruger Blackhawk strapped around my waist. I turned to him and said, "Where's your handgun?" With all the innocence of a ten year old, he said, "Grandpa, I don't have a handgun."

"Well," I said, "Go check under the passenger's seat of the pickup. Maybe you can use that."

He looked under the seat, and there was the Ruger Bearcat in a holster. We spent the next hour or more learning how to safely handle it, disassemble it, load it, and unload it. Then he got to shoot it. You'd have thought that I'd given him the world...spending a week riding a horse in the mountains with a real pistol on his hip."

Every pack trip that I took him on since then, he got to pack that little Ruger.

Like I said, on his twenty-second birthday, I surprised him with that old Bearcat. When he unwrapped it and saw what it was, I thought he was going to cry.

Bottom line, you're making wonderful memories that your granddaughter will never forget. Congrats. You obviously did a good job.

 

[lihpster]

When I was growing up my father had 2 revolvers. A .38 and a .22LR. We could always borrow one of his long guns but the handguns were off limits.
When I was 12, my father drew a muzzleloading antelope tag. Me and him went and he hunted while I took care of the camp. Right after we got there he handed me the .22LR and told me to strap it on. Didn't need it. Didn't shoot it once. But I felt like a king that he trusted me with it. Also the fact that he had his Model 15 on and I had his Model 18, both with 4" tubes, meant, to me, that we had "matching" guns. Made me feel pretty special. Got that 18 in my hands as we speak.

 

[Igiveup]

When my nephew was 12 yrs. old, I let him shoot a M10 heavy barrel ex-police gun I had just purchased. It was like a duck to water. He seemed to hit everything he shot at. He just turned 40 yrs. old a couple months ago and I gave him the M10, along with my SKB 12 ga. o/u. Sure has turned out to be a good kid. He takes his son out duck hunting now, raising him right.