I am over here rolling in the floor laughing as I read all the ways you guys want to try and get a gun past her, or trick her or bribe her or how you share the finances. Gotta be careful though, if williamkevin came home with a purse to appease me, there'd be trouble. Y'all really put a lot of thought in trying to figure us out, huh?
Seriously though, you said she was a good shot, but didn't like shooting at paper/targets. Buy some of those playing card targets and then go out and shoot a game of poker. I'm starting to get bored with just shooting at an X on a silhouette myself. But they've got some CRAZY targets out there...playing cards, a dart board, zombies, etc.
T.
Women's Program Match Director
PSC Shooting Club, Inc.
"I would like to see every woman know how to handle firearms as naturally as they know how to handle babies." -- Annie Oakley
TLynnHughes wrote:I'm starting to get bored with just shooting at an X on a silhouette myself. But they've got some CRAZY targets out there...playing cards, a dart board, zombies, etc.
A steel target and a .22 are good for hours of cheap fun. You just need to have a place where you can shoot one.
- Jim
Fear, anger, hatred, and greed. The devil's all-you-can-eat buffet.
TLynnHughes wrote:I'm starting to get bored with just shooting at an X on a silhouette myself. But they've got some CRAZY targets out there...playing cards, a dart board, zombies, etc.
A steel target and a .22 are good for hours of cheap fun. You just need to have a place where you can shoot one.
- Jim
Yep...done that too. PSC has a great plate rack. My alternative to plain old target shooting is CompVest's Women's Program and IDPA.
T.
Women's Program Match Director
PSC Shooting Club, Inc.
"I would like to see every woman know how to handle firearms as naturally as they know how to handle babies." -- Annie Oakley
I must be different. I have two 1911's, a .38 BUG and a 9mm carbine in the a problem arises closet. I feel that I have enough guns (did I mention the nearly 100 year old M1917 30.06 Remington? )Oh, and my wife has her .38spl as well. I only carry one gun at a time, and because I don't live in the country, I can't just go out and shoot whenever I want. I have to pay to go to the range, pay a lot for ammo, when I can find it, and set aside the time for it. I can think of at least a dozen guns I would like to have, but without the room to store them, or the money to buy them, I guess I have enough. Now if I had a rich uncle Smedley who left me a bunch of money.....
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
- G. K. Chesterton
Too many could be when you run across one in a safe or safes that you had forgot you had! So far my wife hasn't complained, I have bought her three. Ruger MK III, then a Sig 226 9mm/22LR, and a Walther PPK/S. However, she has complained about the food storage taking up too much space.
TLynnHughes wrote:Seriously though, you said she was a good shot, but didn't like shooting at paper/targets. Buy some of those playing card targets and then go out and shoot a game of poker. I'm starting to get bored with just shooting at an X on a silhouette myself. But they've got some CRAZY targets out there...playing cards, a dart board, zombies, etc.
T.
That's a great idea! I'll have to look into those. Thanks!
This is a situational matter. Shortly after the GF and I started dating, she was present when I bought two more, around for the three after that. Encouraged me to go back and get the first of those. Now, on gun show Sundays, she laughs and asks if I got something new. For Xmas, my beloved got me a Playstation 3, with the entirely unneeded "didn't know which kind of gun you wanted, so I got you this." Post Xmas going out of town, I put the nightstand guns back in the safe, was chastised that "her" .38 was not sleeping soundly on her side of the bed. As far as too many, I now have 10 handguns, 3 rifles and 2 shotguns, with the understanding that there is more room in the safe. Compromise, my friend, compromise.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
-Rudyard Kipling
Told my wife that I've sacrificed last 4 years not buying any firearms while she bought her furniture, purses, etc.. And 2010 is my turn. I gave her my list and all she could say is wow and dang.
seamusTX wrote:Coach purse. Cost a sum that makes your mouth dry up, but they last a decade.
With regard to shoes, you can easily find shoes that cost more than a new pistol or even a new Italian shotgun.
- Jim
Coach purse last a decade? I wish that applied to my wife, she thinks she needs new one for every season of the year.
I was watching Red Dawn with her the other night, (if yall havn't seen that its the one with Patrick Swayze where the Russians invade the U.S), I use that as my excuse. she just rolls her eyes at me. Other times she asks how many guns I have and I always just up the number by one incase I go shopping and she goes and looks in the safe.