The women in your life and their guns

[Tallpine]

Don't have a gun yet, just swords and other fun things.

It takes less than a pound of pressure to cut human skin. 

[BlueStarLizzard]

It takes less than a pound of pressure to cut human skin. 

You learn that in the whore acadamy?

[Hutch]

Wife has 2x S&W M442's, one in purse and one for the nightstand.
Daughter 1 has a P3AT and my S&W M547.
Daughter 2 doesn't tote.

Daughter 1 is an avid shooter and married a semi-Gunnie, thank God.  The wife makes no time for it.

[MrsSmith]

I'm sorry for all you guys whose wives won't or don't carry. I wish I had a magic solution for changing her mind, but kudos to you for taking full responsibility for her protection.

Ladies, thank you for posting your comments. Liz, which one of those do you usually carry? I think I remember something about the 1911 once but I don't recall now.

For those of you teaching or planning to teach your daughters to shoot - way to go!!

I'm adding gun make model, caliber, and use to a spreadsheet and will post the results when I'm done collecting data. As you can see here, it's a bit all over the board. I'm going to put something up on facebook too and sometime soon will have a full questionnaire for women shooters. And when the time comes APS will be the first to know what I'm doing and why! :)

[Tallpine]

You learn that in the whore acadamy?

You can't open the book of my life in the middle. 

[wmenorr67]

You can't open the book of my life in the middle. 

You hope it is the middle.

[charby]

My wife only has a Remington Semi Auto 20 gauge shotgun her dad gave her a couple years ago. I'm getting her a Rem 788 in .243 than has been cut to her LOP which I will pick up in a couple weeks. She doesn't know about this but she has mentioned she like to shoot something bigger than a .22lr rifle that fits her.

She likes to shoot my .22 and .38/.357 handguns. She prefers revolvers to pistols because they are easier for her to operate.

I don't ever push going shooting, she just will say something every now and then that she wants to go shoot.

[BlueStarLizzard]

*sheepish*

I don't carry. I just never have gotten around to getting the permit.

Probably the xd, as that's why I bought it.

I wouldn't want to carry the 1911 due to rust factor, not because of size.

[wmenorr67]

*sheepish*

I don't carry. I just never have gotten around to getting the permit.

Probably the xd, as that's why I bought it.

I wouldn't want to carry the 1911 due to rust factor, not because of size.

Carrying the 1911 won't make you rust.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Carrying the 1911 won't make you rust.

But it can make your hip turn green.

[geronimotwo]

she doesn't carry, but enjoys shooting my smith 422 at the range.  she has the paperwork to get her carry permit, but hasn't completed it.

[BridgeRunner]

...I've shot competition pistol for 6 years, shoot military matches and win guns, spent every waking moment of my life on guns for a few years and been qualified numerous times in the military and I don't know how to shoot...

Possibly, being a little bit absurd here?

[Ben]

Possibly, being a little bit absurd here?

I don't think he is. I was shooting for over 25 years before I took my first real defensive shooting class. At that point I realized I had a lot to learn.

[Larry Ashcraft]

My wife has her permit, but rarely carries (she works on an Army base).  Her carry gun is a 2" barreled model 36 LadySmith, with a laser sight.

She prefers shooting Sporting Clays with a SXS 28 ga.  She's also game to try about anything, as proven by these two videos (PPSH43 SMG and a .470 NE double rifle):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhtKiRrYA0&context=C3619dfcADOEgsToPDskKNPYUp1NWdzZxA_-rND1ei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZi5VpAvgo&context=C3b6b877ADOEgsToPDskKHiD0HJC7YrSoddoA7sz8u

[French G.]

Possibly, being a little bit absurd here?

Not in the least. The day I don't learn something is the day I need to sell the guns. Yes, I can hit something with a bullet most of the time. I just resent the attitude of someone who has 2 hours experience and knows it all. The same woman who thinks she knows how to drive an antique tractor around 20% + slopes. My whole life has been dangerous equipment and that tractor came real close to being my life insurance check, yet she knows it all. Doesn't know how to steer when the front wheels won't turn it mind you, but she knows it all. Apparently doing it  is more important than admitting lack of knowledge and surviving to be a mom.

Or to paraphrase my hero. A man's got to know his limitations. A woman, not so much.

Oh, I remember, I was heavy into guns for 2-3 years before getting into competition. A case of factory .45 sometimes lasted a week. I knew it all. Then I went to my first match. Oh.

Anyway, but I digress.

[BridgeRunner]

Knowing how to do something and knowing everything about something are not remotely the same thing. 

Stating that one knows how to do something does not indicate that one has nothing left to learn about that thing.

By your reasoning, you don't know how to speak English either. 

Self-awareness is good.  Stating that one doesn't know how to do something until one knows it better than it is possible for anyone, ever, to know it is just absurd.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Knowing how to do something and knowing everything about something are not remotely the same thing. 

Stating that one knows how to do something does not indicate that one has nothing left to learn about that thing.

By your reasoning, you don't know how to speak English either. 

Self-awareness is good.  Stating that one doesn't know how to do something until one knows it better than it is possible for anyone, ever, to know it is just absurd.

Methinks that's his point.

I also find people who think they know all annoying, especially when it involves stuff that most people have many misconceptions about and/or could be dangarous.

If someone walks in looking to work where I work and thinks they know all there is about working with dogs because tey grew up with a family dog, I will laugh in their face and tell them to cut oreo's nails.

Then they can learn all about canine dental marks.
 

[BridgeRunner]

Methinks that's his point.

If that's his point, he's making it wrong.

Man says he doesn't know how to shoot.  He's been shooting at what I could consider a fairly high level of skill for a while now. 

[charby]

My wife has her permit, but rarely carries (she works on an Army base).  Her carry gun is a 2" barreled model 36 LadySmith, with a laser sight.

She prefers shooting Sporting Clays with a SXS 28 ga.  She's also game to try about anything, as proven by these two videos (PPSH43 SMG and a .470 NE double rifle):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhtKiRrYA0&context=C3619dfcADOEgsToPDskKNPYUp1NWdzZxA_-rND1ei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZi5VpAvgo&context=C3b6b877ADOEgsToPDskKHiD0HJC7YrSoddoA7sz8u

Thats pretty cool! I could see my wife liking the SM but not the .470 NE

[Strings]

Well, Spoon currently carries a Kimber compact .45. She also has a Colt Mustang (mom's old gun), and a Ruger SP101... but doesn't yet have holsters for either.

Mom in law is GOING to be carrying a full size Rock Island 1911, as soon as we find her a decent holster...

[S. Williamson]

Seems a lot of the womenfolk around here (that I personally know in OKC) prefer 7.62x39.  SKS platform, specifically.  Seems the Warsaw-Pact-Length stock fits them well, with the cartridge offering good performance.

Pistols, on the other hand...  Not many into them.

[Bob F.]

SWMBO carries a G-19 wherever legal. Has a few others, doesn't shoot as much as I'd like her to. Sometimes better SA than me.

[wuluf]

If it helps, I carry a S&W 686 .357 Magnum with 4" barrel.

My wife won't carry and isn't really into guns, but when we go to the range she is dead nuts accurate with hers...

[Perd Hapley]

My wife likes the Ruger 10-22, and. 22 LR firearms in general.

[Bigjake]

SWMBO carries a Smith 37 daily,  and a Colt Mustang when she feels like it.  Her trail gun is  a Colt New Army.  On long guns,  she's partial to an M4gery, a lefty CZ452, and for shotguns, a lefty 20ga 870  I'm a luck guy :)