1. Took girl to indoor range. I knew her a little but not much. She wanted to try new things etc. 21yo. Smoking hot. College girl. Anyways. She readily agreed to go shooting. I just brought my M9 and a few hundred rounds. Got us a lane and got my gun set up. Blew off 10 rounds to make sure everything was good. Showed her how to load the mag, hold the gun, saftey, double vs single action (because M9) and so forth. She shot ten at the target and I'll be damned if she didn't put all ten center mass like a pro at 20 feet. Anyways. She puts the gun down, turns around, years in her eyes and says she wants to go. "Holy shit" I think to myself, "let's boogy". Got outta there and took her mini golfing instead.
2. Took girl out to go shoot some sporting Clay's. Showed her how the gun works. Show her how to operate the thrower machine. Load up and "pull!". Shot my Clay's and turned around. She looked petrified. Asked if she was ok. Said she was. Loaded the gun and handed it to her. After she had it in hand started shaking. Tears in her eyes. Told her the recoil really isn't that bad and she can just shoot into open air a few times if she wanted to. Started saying she wasn't ready etc. Decided to wrap it up before I got her freaked.
Anyone else experience stuff like this? I mean I'm not a creepy dude and I'm not mishandling the guns or making irresponsible comments or moves etc. All just normal range day etiquette.
Are some people just scared shitless by guns or something?
What are your experiences with mental breakdowns at the range?
>I'm not a creepy dude >Asking Jow Forums why all the women he takes shooting have a breakdown ending in years user I..
Zachary James
>Girls crying at range >Im not creepy
I have bad news...
Jackson Young
>Anyone else experience stuff like this No. My girlfriend was taught how to shoot .22 carbines by her dad. >Are some people just scared shitless by guns or something yes, this shouldn't surprise you. The media portrayal of firearms is brutal and terrifying.
Jace Gomez
Because girls are fucking stupid. They cry about everything
Ethan King
You sons a bishes.
I might not be Chad but I certainly am not causing these reactions.
is it wrong that I have my dick out the whole time I'm at the range?
Come on. Gimme some stories.
Luke Jones
Did you keep your promise to release their family if they would keep shooting? Might cheer them up a bit
Aaron Ward
Contrary to what people in this thread say, there are TONS of emotionally mismanaged adults who would cry if made to hold a firearm. I was fucking this girl for YEARS that would stick her fingers in her ear and go "LA-LA-LA" when I talked about long range shooting as if I was a mass murderer.
Leave them behind.
Jose Martin
>The media portrayal of firearms is brutal and terrifying.
They aren't exactly warm pillows.
Christian Clark
Have you tried waiting until you leave the range to rape them? I find it usually helps with the crying.
John Sanders
I've seen it a few times.
No 1 >outdoor range >busy weekend >2 guys bring their gfs >everyone there is shooting ARs, no joke >after the bfs shot the first 5 rounds, both gfs walk straight back to the parking lot >fingers over their ears Probably was the noise.
No 2 >indoor range >buddy and I brought our deer rifles >checking our targets >bf and gf come in >after a few minutes, bf starts shooting his AR >everytime the gun went off, I could see the gf clenching her teeth
Guns are really stimulating at times, and with new shooters, I always cringe when someone tells them to shoot something loud or unfitting for a first gun. And I think the girls you were dating were more on the introverted spectrum (also a quick guess of mine, as to why females are more prone to suffering anxiety issues). Personally, I wouldn't give a new shooter anything other than a 22 or 9mm rifle, unless they are able to prove otherwise. Just like taking a first-timer on a gym date and automatically telling them to lift 60 lbs barbells.
>hanging out with women that's a yikes from me dawg
Samuel Campbell
Are you preying on women who have been thru trauma? Not all women are gonna be into guns unfortunately, and taking them to public ranges where old fudds stare at them probably isn't helping.
Blake Jenkins
Based
Julian Wood
They are the warmest of pillows and I defy you to prove otherwise.
Kayden Ross
>fingers over their ears Where the fuck was their ear pro?
Tyler Evans
First time I took my ex shooting we pulled up to the outdoor range and she started getting anxious and wouldn't get out of the car to shoot because she was afraid she would embarrass or hurt herself. We left and got some lunch then came back and the range was mostly empty and after being scared initially she had a good time and we went back several times. Women are just emotional creatures who are especially afraid of being embarrassed/humiliated. Shooting a gun for the first time is an emotional experience.
Nicholas Ward
My best advice: try and put yourself in their shoes, and see how they interpret a fun time at the range
Adrian Gray
It's a thing I see once in a while at that specific range. I shit you not there is that 1 in 1000 guy who thinks earpros are for pussies.
Ryan Flores
Let me check those dubs if truth for you.
Lucas Campbell
Who's got the webm of the guy making his wife fire the tank gun?
James Flores
Don’t bother bringing women into men’s hobbies. You want a friend or a gay partner if this is your MO. Get a good women who will make a great wife and you can grow old with. If she’s good at draining your balls that’s nice too.
Brayden Martin
I bought a smoking thottie to a 50yd indoor range. Shot fine with my AR-15 but freaked out after shooting my benelli m4. Got freaked out scared and took her for fondue.
Idk about the second story, but I'm willing to bet in the first one her anxiety has exacerbated by being at an indoor range. My wife loved to shoot my Glock at the outdoor range, but when we moved to a meat hive and indoor became more convenient, she didn't enjoy it anymore. Complained about how it was uncomfortable feeling the shockwaves from other shooters (mostly ARs).
Luke Wright
Going to add the first time we went shooting it was a .22 and a .380. So that might have contributed to her enjoyment. Handing a girl a shotgun is a recipe for traumatizing them.
Lincoln Johnson
Nice booty.
Zachary Morales
Some of it is the "muh babykillin guns r bad," but i would say that most of it is not that. I would say they were likely just jarred by the sound, especially in an indoor range. The constant banging can be a lot. And really disorienting if youre not used to it. We are mammals after all; loud bangs tend to make us uneasy, especially women and children.
I once invited my gf to the range. I initially wanted to let her shoot a .22, but I only had a rifle, and the rifle range had a few guys in it, and I wanted to be able to explain things to her calmly so we went to the empty pistol range. The only pistol I had was a Glock 17 though, I fired a shot to show her then handed her the gun. She fired a few shots then started crying. I asked why and she said she didn't know. So we went back home.
I took her again another time, and I let it shoot a .22, and she didn't cry, although she couldn't aim for shit and I couldn't understand why. She got frustrated and wanted to leave, until I realized she was trying to shoot right handed while using her left eye as the dominant one, hence why she complained about not being able to see the sights. I tried everything so that she tried using her fucking right eye, but nope, she says she can't close her left eye and keep the right one open well. What the fuck is wrong with her.
I wish I had another gf, seriously.
Aaron Watson
Did you hit it?
Connor Powell
This. Ava pulling a shotgun on Boyd in Justified was awesome.
Ian Reed
>unlit cig >closed bottle of booze >square rips >immaculate clothes >strange grip on shotfun and there it is! >homosex watermark
John Rivera
Pathetic. And not even worse than any others. They really are only good for bedtime and families aren’t they
David Green
She just has a shit eye, t. eyelet. It's possible to keep it closed but it just sounds like she's either uncomfortable as is or is being a little bitch about it. If she were serious she'd try a bit harder or just idk shoot left handed
tape a piece of paper over the left side of her safety glasses.
Austin Parker
I've never had a girl cry but the one time I got my wife to go she got verbally assailed by a boomer autist when I was in the shop picking up some more ammo.
>Take wife to local range >Have shiny new Glock 21, teach her how it works >She shoots a couple mags, no issues, just had to keep correcting her grip so she didn't get slide bite >Only brought 50 rounds, was going to keep it very short so she didn't get bored >She seems into it, so I leave her there with a mag while I go pick up another box >Look out window while ringing up and see the boomer in the next lane over watching her hands >Bless his heart, he notices her putting her thumb over again and tries to help before she hurts herself >While they're talking, she finishes her mag and puts the gun down with its slide locked back and in the process sets it down sideways so it lightly muzzle sweeps him...with a slide locked, now empty pistol >Dipshit practically recites the navy seal copypasta at her before I can come back and see what's up/apologize for her not knowing the rules very well yet >"user I don't think I like shooting the range is full of creepy old guys"
GOD DAMMIT WHY CAN'T YOU PEOPLE CHILL AND HELP NEWBIES WHEN THERE'S NO HARM NO FOUL.
Grayson Stewart
Why would you take a girl shooting? It’s not a proper activity
Benjamin Cook
I've brought two different chicks to shoot who were scared of my 7.62x39 AK. Of course, both thought it was loud, but I convinced them it's not as bad when you're directly behind it. They were both convinced it was going to recoil into their shoulders and hurt, even though we were just benchrest shooting. I managed to get both of them to try it eventually after they watched me shoot a few mags.
Landon Johnson
Holy shit you already got me raging from describing those girls mate, good on you for leaving her behind
Leo Diaz
Took my gf to shoot my marlin 39a. First shot she started crying. Never again
Wyatt Long
I have taught 2 women and several men the basics of shooting. The women tend to have tighter groups starting out than the men, but have trouble figuring out how to use the firearms, and have more safety issues. One woman NDed while shouldering a rifle (despite several corrections on my part), the other turned and flagged half the range after shooting, despite me specifically telling her to put the firearm down before turning around. Neither cried though. Altogether, while the men required more coaching on precision, they could follow the safety rules, and had a much better instinctual understanding of stance and firearm mechanics. I think the next woman who wants me to teach them is going to have write an essay on the 4 rules or something before we go.
Carter Flores
Some people straight can't handle it, but it always helps to introduce new shooters to guns while you are not at the range. Walking them through the functions when there aren't tiny controlled explosions going off around you helps build confidence.
Jack Foster
Bizarre dude. I don’t understand
John White
that sucks dude. my wife is a Jow Forums and Jow Forums fusion.
Sebastian Roberts
I taught my ex and the girl who is now my wife to shoot. Both got horny. I have no idea what you are talking about OP
My wife is actually pretty much Jow Forums tier and doesn't mind gun talk, but I can tell there's some kind of negative emotional reaction to actually seeing and handling guns that she tries to hide, but does a very bad job at it.
Nathan Bailey
she looks good and all but can we get a pic of the benelli m4?
William Nguyen
can we get a Muslim edit?
Jack Mitchell
r8 my m8 from NYC
>first gun >chainsaw >2-5th guns >french horn >wrist rocket with primo ball bearings to remove tree rats and honk >original Edward Gorey(1 of 1)
luv muh waifu (she also lurks on Jow Forums, /o/, and /x/)
I also am uglier than Frank Reynolds retarded stepchild.
1. There's nothing wrong with shooting cross dominant. I do it all the time. Eye dominance doesn't matter for shooting hand guns. It's fudd lore that needs to die.
2. Lots of people have trouble closing one eye at a time.
3. You are a tremendous faggot. You have a girlfriend who is genuinely interested in doing things with you because you enjoy them, and you choose to be an ungrateful little shit. Why do I feel like part of the reason she was having trouble is because you're a shot teacher with the patience of a 5 year old.
>Inb4 white knight
Nah faggot, you're just a dick head
Ayden Howard
She was shooting a rifle right handed, hence why she couldn't see shit by closing her right eye. She has some kind of physical problem that prevents her from keeping her right eye open if she closes the left one. Or at least that's what she pretends. Now get fucked you son of a whore.
Isaiah Scott
Dammit user, DAMMIT. Fuck. Now you got me thinking I'm too ugly as well.
Aiden Adams
>Not magdumping your 9 and putting it in a soft pistol case
No, that's some bullshit. I've been using this board for over a year. There's no way I haven't figured this out yet.
Landon Gray
lol
Nolan Bennett
I would have destroyed her cunt after this. Seeing her refuse to fire again makes me hard, especially when I hear her.
Nicholas Miller
The only girl I took to the range was my ex, and she cried a little. Mostly from between her legs.
Caleb Allen
>Bring chick I like to shooting range >Show her the basics >Her turn >She not bad of a shot >She is even better than I am >No what she is kicking my butt when it come to accuracy >RSO comes over >Makes fun of me >She starts flirting with him >All of sudden look over >She is bent over then bench >RSO is balls deep in her >She is still shooting better than me >I maybe cried a little
This thread can't be for real can it? Either theres some emotionally charged context not being disclosed or you guys have the absolute worst judgement when it comes to women
> my mother has shot rifles in her home country as mandated training, and enjoyed it > my wife who isn't even into guns had no problem with shooting (though not a great shot and had trouble operating the slide and missing the mash) > my brothers petite fob chinese wife had no qualms whatsoever shooting a block: in fact quite the opposite- demonstrated a total lack of gun safety awareness (sweeping the fucking loading pistol with her fucking finger on the trigger over the janitor sweeping casings). I couldn't believe it.
And my family is all liberal coastal city faggots with next to zero firearm exposure.
Asher Morgan
>my experience negates all others' experiences Imagine being this autistic
Jason Bell
Heres the one that comes to mind, and is the classic "girl shooting gun"
>At local range >Trying out the .357 >Wanna see if I like it enough to buy one >There's a girl and her bf two lanes down >I wait so I don't need to interrupt their shooting >She shoots and turns around smiling >MuzzleSweep.gif >Bf pushes her arm away, yelling >RSO nearly kicks in the door to enter the range >Girl is huffing and crying >I return the .357 to the counter and leave because I enjoyed my time with it and it's getting late >Girl is yelling at her boyfriend in the parking lot
Jonathan Ramirez
So have her shoot left-handed.
Austin Young
I mean guns are waaaay louder than what I thought they would be. It's less a sound that you hear, but a pressure you feel, especially in an indoor range.
Benjamin Perez
An emotional experience is when your dog dies. Operating a machine is not an emotional experience. There are just those who are too meek to be independent in this world.
I can’t wait until someone drafts legislation in my area banning shooting ranges. Those things are sooo fucking obnoxious.
Blake Campbell
Similar story >be me >work at airport >work with cool britbong flight engineer >we both love shooting >He's got tons of Brit shit >Enfield, Webley, Martini Henry etc >I've got weherabhoo shit and slavshit >both of us built M4geries >gonna take to range and LARP (it's 2006 so Iraq is all the rage) >gay co-worker who always talks to us is insisting he HAS to go to. >whatever maybe it'll open his mind to guns and shit more >go to range >show how it all works >he watches us shoot a bit. Rifles,ARs, pistols >britbro has a Five Seven >keep in mind we're doubled up on earpro since gay dude is a newbie >let him take a shot with the Five Seven since it's the smallest caliber pistol we got >dude is shaking >takes one shot and has tears coming down his cheeks. >we grab pistol and say no sweat >dude doesn't shoot the rest of the time >fuck it, we blew through the rest of our ammo and time there
That sucks. As a homo I love shooting weapons and the m240 was my favorite weapon to shoot along with the .203.
M2 was not as fun as I had hoped though, the fact that they make you qualify up to 1 mile targets is retarded and it was cold that day too.
Xavier Evans
>operating a machine isn't an emotional experience
Nigger, what? Top Gear is a show about the emotional experience of motoring. Soldiers have talked about how firing a weapon makes them feel for a century.
Juan Murphy
I want to see you rack her slide if you know what I mean
Ryder Hall
>not offering the homo a comforting reach around to settle his nerves you sound like a faggot
Charles Smith
>as a homo >it was cold and I had to shoot a long way
user, you're making homos look bad.
Jaxon Foster
>complains about jap speak while using black speak
Kevin Rivera
The thing is, he's a cool dude. It was just like someone stole all his testosterone when we handed him a pistol. I dunno, maybe he eventually ccame around. Britbro and him are still in Texas, I ended up jumping companies and moved to Florida
Gabriel Davis
Fuck you dude, the PMI sucked from some faggot ass SSG who didn't know the weapon system that well, half of the other NCOs were absolute dogshit and didn't even know how to set up the feed trays, until they figured out they had the wrong parts, and everybody else was talking about being a cold weather casualty and all I did was complain a little. Besides I still qualified along with 2 other dudes out of like 40 people. We wasted 1000s of rounds to qualify 3 dudes.
