My neice is a chip off the revolver block

[TNDave]

My neice, who is now about 25, decided she wanted a gun for her home. Her husband works late nights sometimes and her neighborhood is sketchy. I never understood why they moved there, and they are moving somewhere else when their lease is up.

Two nights ago there was some shooting around 11:00 pm very close and she didn't like that. Yesterday we hit the range with a 4" Model 10 from the 1960's and a Glock 19. She shot both well at 7 yards since I had trained her so well when she was little

When the moment of decision came she choose the Model 10! How's that for bucking the trend? That was my wife's house gun so I issued my wife a 3" Model 64 in it's place.

I should have taken her pic with the target and gun but didn't. Anyway, another honest citizen is armed with a Model 10 now stoked with 158 gr lead SWCHP's from Winchester. Tyler T with the diamond magnas. Old school goodness. I think we all feel a little better about her security.

I wonder if I'll ever get that one back? She said she wanted to borrow it. Might be alright if I don't.

Here is a pic of the iron in question.

 

[g8rb8]

Proof?

More proof that women are the more intelligent of the species?
My wife's cousin oldest daughter, a year or two younger than your niece, made the same decision when presented with a nice old 4inch model 10 and a polymer 9 mm semi-auto. She qualified for her conceal carry license with the model 10 the same day her dad qualified with a polymer frame semi-auto. Of course she shot significantly better than her dad during the qualifying.

 

[murphydog]

What a good uncle you are! Better to have (and have trained) and not need, than to need and not have.

 

[O2Guy]

If there is such a thing as a good way to lose a Model 10, that would be it.

 

[Bud_Dub]

Best way for female empowerment. The model 10 is a beauty with class and females do recognize the nicest things for themselves. Congrats for being an awesome uncle.

 

[Jim PHL]

Same with my daughter. She's been shooting with me for a couple years but it didn't take her too long to rename my M65 LS*. It still surprise me in this day and age that someone her age not only chose a steel gun as her favorite, but a revolver.


*Now she calls it "my gun"!

 

[RV4driver]

This does my old heart good.
Smart women with guns...it's all good!

 

[lebomm]

I lost a 3" M65 to my daughter the same way.

Larry

 

[sac-gunslinger]

Of course she shot significantly better than her dad during the qualifying.

One of the instructors at my first instructor's school told us "don't be surprised if the women are your best shots." That turned out to be true in every class that contained female shooters.

We developed simple demoenstrations to get them past the culturally-created fears (recoil, loud noise). After that, these students would sit down and follow instructions and quickly become good, competent shooters.

My worst students were the guys who claimed "to have grown up with a gun in my hand, you don't need to tell me nuthin' "

 

[Old Corp]

One of the instructors at my first instructor's school told us "don't be surprised if the women are your best shots." That turned out to be true in every class that contained female shooters.

We developed simple demonstrations to get them past the culturally-created fears (recoil, loud noise). After that, these students would sit down and follow instructions and quickly become good, competent shooters.

My worst students were the guys who claimed "to have grown up with a gun in my hand, you don't need to tell me nuthin' "

Absolutely true. In my time as a Firearms Instructor teaching mainly Basic Pistol and Concealed Carry, I could not count the number of classes I've had where the females did many times better than the males who had seen enough Bruce Willis movies to be nearly self-proclaimed shooting masters.
Really believe that the ladies actually LISTEN when the Instructor covers the basic fundamentals - stance, grip, trigger control, sight alignment. The guys' testosterone prevent paying attention to that.

 

[Kestrel]

TNDave, are you taking applications for nephews?