Snapping Twig
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My daughter's boyfriend is a good guy, he's a civil engineer gainfully employed and an Irish National.
Suffice to say, he had never handled a firearm until he met me some months back.
We did gun safety, different types of handguns, SA, Semi, DA. The four rules, etc.
Then we went to the reloading room and loaded up a few. I gave him the first bullet he ever made to set aside as a milestone token for his knickknack box.
Today he had some free time, so I took him on an appliance repair with me, then lunch and off to the range.
We started with a Ruger Mk II .22. Once he ate up all that ammo, I moved him to an S&W 586 to shoot some 38Spl. Once that was smooth, I let him shoot a Ruger Birdshead Vaquero 45 Colt. Having done that, we moved to hot .357.
He did well. His accuracy is not that of a new shooter to say the least. He has potential! I taught him the Jeff Cooper way, it's the way I know and JC seemed to get by alright.
At the end of the session, he grabbed the target and will be hanging it on his wall, so proud was he.
Considering he'd go to jail for a very long time for doing any of this back in the Motherland, he felt very fortunate to have done such things legally here.
We shared the target, I got the head part, he got the body part. I left one ragged hole in the head, so when he hangs it up he can see what he did and importantly... what I did.
That's all the crazy Dad cleaning the shotgun without the crazy. I know one day upon reflection, he'll look at the target and his eyes will fall on the head and he'll have an OH ****E moment when it dawns on him.
Anyway, it was good to get him out and we'll most certainly do it again and go over the basics and learn new lessons and try different calibers.
He already told me he's anxious to go back.
Suffice to say, he had never handled a firearm until he met me some months back.
We did gun safety, different types of handguns, SA, Semi, DA. The four rules, etc.
Then we went to the reloading room and loaded up a few. I gave him the first bullet he ever made to set aside as a milestone token for his knickknack box.
Today he had some free time, so I took him on an appliance repair with me, then lunch and off to the range.
We started with a Ruger Mk II .22. Once he ate up all that ammo, I moved him to an S&W 586 to shoot some 38Spl. Once that was smooth, I let him shoot a Ruger Birdshead Vaquero 45 Colt. Having done that, we moved to hot .357.
He did well. His accuracy is not that of a new shooter to say the least. He has potential! I taught him the Jeff Cooper way, it's the way I know and JC seemed to get by alright.
At the end of the session, he grabbed the target and will be hanging it on his wall, so proud was he.
Considering he'd go to jail for a very long time for doing any of this back in the Motherland, he felt very fortunate to have done such things legally here.
We shared the target, I got the head part, he got the body part. I left one ragged hole in the head, so when he hangs it up he can see what he did and importantly... what I did.
That's all the crazy Dad cleaning the shotgun without the crazy. I know one day upon reflection, he'll look at the target and his eyes will fall on the head and he'll have an OH ****E moment when it dawns on him.
Anyway, it was good to get him out and we'll most certainly do it again and go over the basics and learn new lessons and try different calibers.
He already told me he's anxious to go back.
