first times thread
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This thread is for posting about your first time shooting a gun, an experience with a new shooter's first time at the range, or how to teach new shooters/make the first trip positive.
>Remember, the best defense against gun control is proactively getting the next generation safely into guns.
Posted this in another thread but it fits here.
>Heading to eange to shoot my new guns
>Friend invites his buddy and buddies little brother
>Little kids first time at the range
>OhShit I left the .22 at home
>Best gun I got for a new shooter is a Smith and Wesson. 357 and some cheap .38 special
>Go over safety rules, let him dry fire the gun a dozen times in single action
>Set up target at 7yds and load a single round
>He loves it, immediately wants to shoot another round
>Gave him the spent brass from his first round ever fired
>Let him have a whole target to himself and gave it to him after (He carved his name into the shoot n' see part with the spent brass)
>By the end of a box of .38 he could load and index a cylinder, shoot single action, eject spent brass, and had good trigger discipline
>All he wanted to do is go again.
He also shot a few .357 mag. Like a champ and my Sig p228 and Makarov. He really liked the makarov.
His 3rd round cut the X out of the bullseye and he was ecstatic.
>>29563972
Picture from the other thread of the kid rocking my 65-2
Really polite well behaved kid.
>>29564000
Are you Asian? I have only seen that haircut on asains
>>29564128
Not me, that's the kids brother that brought him to the range.
I think he just got out of basic or something
I'll post my first time
>noguns home
>noguns friends
>decide to get CCW
>shoot guns for the first time at CCW test
>got a 246/250
>I'm not retarded so nothing crazy happened
Still waiting on my permit 4 months later... :|
Can't justify getting a gun until it arrives
>>29564206
Describe the test.
>>29564260
Various amounts of shooting at 3, 5, and 12 yards. It was pretty easy. Guy next to me and the guy running the side of the test I was on were both ex-military and said they were impressed.
>with uncle
>tells me about his guns
>"wanna go shoot some?"
>go to nearby renovating building with no one around
>in shitty country so alot of these
>pick up a few bricks off the floor and place them on top of a stair
>had a scope on it so take aim
>shakier than the earthquake in haiti
>miss a few but break the brick eventually
Pretty good day
>>29563972
Shot a shotgun for the first time we'll hunting bear 3 days ago. Surprisingly low recoil. Apparently I have good posture, and every shot was right on target. But I flinch like a mother fucker. Soon mad at that.
First shooting was a .22 to kill rabbits for butcher about 3 years ago. Grams handed me the gun and said dry fire it a few times than go out. He been gone for a while though. :(
>>29564335
Also sorry for bad grammar. Ducking auto correct.
>>29564297
Go get a gun and practice dipshit, you're not as good as you think you are.
>Why buy a gun until I can carry?
>I already got nearly perfect scores lol
Go. PRACTICE!
>>29564355
Renting a gun every time is fucking expensive mate. Why are you getting so aggressive on an anonymous online Mongolian basket weaving site??
>>29564000
nice ear protections bruh
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>be no guns
>have a cheap air soft pistol that I've never used
>find out that you're suppose to aim with both eyes open and focus on the front sight
>try to
>see double rear sight and double target
Are my eyes fucked up /k/? When I renewed my license I had 17-19 vision I think
>First 1911
>Trying to reassemble
>Fiddling with slide stop
>Complete 360 circular idiot scratch all across slide
It's stainless, so I buffed it mostly off. But I know its there...
>>29564415
>handgun
>not even firing it himself
Hardly an eee
>>29564378
Sorry, but you are not ready to carry a firearm. You need to buy a gun and start practicing, right now you're a liability.
>>29564442
Cross-dominant. It sucks.
>>29564378
He's being a dick about it, but he's not wrong.
>>29564335
>.22
>dry fire it a few times
This kills the gun.
>>29564469
But it's like that when I try it with either hand
>>29564454
WHAT? HARDLY HAVE TO PEE?
>>29564512
Sure you're trying with both eyes? Cover an object with your thumb, then close your eyes in turn. Which one of your eyes is open when the object is covered? That's your dominant eye.
>>29564541
Goddamnit my right eye is dominent but Im left handed.
But I know I shoot air rifles better right handed in the standing and crouching position
Oh well
>>29564614
Easier to learn to shoot with your right hand then. I've got the opposite situation, left eye dominant but right handed. Can't do anything with my left arm and have years of gun usage with my right arm.
>>29564614
Try a scope or red dot sight. You will always need to close an eye with irons.
>>29563972
Not my first time. But my wife's first time.
>Marry the greatest woman ever
>beautiful, he'll of a cook, over the course of our courtship find out she loves powerlifting, does MMA, and archery
>begs me to go shooting
>get out to the range
>load up a .22 LR and let her pink a bit as I held her get used to controls and relapsing concepts
>switch to a .38 air weight, she digs it but says it feels like it kicks too much
>load up my XD in .40
>hand it over and she goes rock and roll on a 10 round mag.
>slide locks back and she puts it down and grins at me with that
"Oh Shit I just got a boner"
>look that we've all had
>she says she wants one and asks if we can go buy one on our way home.
The RO came over and tried to chew on her even though four other people may dumped right next to us even as he walking over. RO saw th rounds she was shooting and tried to lay in with this "too much gun for a woman" horseshit. I was getting pissed until this older RO (I guess his supervisor) came over and dragged him away for an attitude adjustment.
>>29564415
Look closer, yellow ear plugs.
>>29564128
>getting this excited about somebody being asian
>>29563972
First time was pretty late on account of being a city dweller.
>Be 19
>Away for college, can no longer protect mom with sacred blade
>Mom asks for gun for Christmas, Uncle gives her a 20 gauge shotgun
>Shoot with birdshot
>Paint the target yellow
>Been in love with firearms ever since.
>>29564660
>powerlifting, does MMA, and archery
anon you're a lucky man
If you're not already into MMA, do that shit with her
>>29564717
Shit, you got in earlier than me.
>be 23
>parents divorced when I was 17 so no more antigunz mom preventing funtime
>surprise depression at age 18
>now far enough past stay in mental hospital that my dad thinks I can be trusted with a gun
>go to LL Bean in Maine
>spend a day doing sporting clays with over-unders
>shoulder is a little sore at the end of the day
>my fucking face when I hit a moving target in midair the first time I fired a live weapon
And then of course I moved to fucking Chicago six months later so I'm still a nofunz at home. Currently waiting on my FOID so I can get a 12-gauge or a levergun.
>>29564653
The air rifles had a shitty scope(?) that was probably a x1.3
After about 15 accumulated of practice I realized I was much steadier right handed
Never made it Expert, but I got my Sharpshooter's badge
>>29564304
>next day
>uncle brings pic related
>go to same renovating building
>suprise suprise there's no one there
>go to the roof
>find some shit on the floor
>piece of wood and a stick
>manage to prop it up against the wall and use it as our target
>uncle goes first
>wasn't using earpro or anything but was standing a considerable distance away to notice how loud it was
>my turn
>uncle loads it in for me because im a complete tool
>accidently muzzle sweep him but doesn't notice
>aim at already shot up piece of shit target
>fire
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>take a step back from how much the recoil was
>piece of shit target falls over
>eject the shell and falls over the edge of the roof
>arm was sore because i didnt hold tightly enough according to my uncle
Another good day
>>29563972
>grandfather and his friends own a little land out in the middle of nowhere
>literally all the men in my family are ex military or police
>im 6
>we all go out to the cabin out there, having a good time fucking around and chopping up cactus with machetes
>dad brings me over to the shooting range, pulls out a little .22 revolver
>i fucking love cowboy shit at that age
>he shows me everything about shooting and gun safety
>puts earmuffs on me and points at targets
>plink for a while
honestly one of my best memories
>>29563972
>the exper in anything was once a beginner
no
>>29565018
Are you a nigger? Because your uncle is definitely a nigger.
>>29564000
>Really polite well behaved kid.
He has good role models.
>>29565475
nah arab
>7 or 6 years ago
>played a shitton of cod waw
>grandfather was british who grew up poking dead german pilots with sticks as a kid
>owned a newer-model m1 carbine
>bugged him to show me it
>sperged when he took it from a dirty burlap sack and let me hold it
>literally the best thing i had ever laid my eyes on
>flashbacks of killing japs in cod waw as i hold it
fast-foward several years and he died from pneumonia. he stashed it in a woodpile before he died. we found it all burned and broken. my dad tried to restore it but the parts were lost eventually. all that remains is a loaded 25 round magazine.
>>29564461
>>29564472
I do practice, though. I just don't own one yet.
>>29565518
So, nigger?
>>29564206
>shoot guns for the first time at CCW test
>Still waiting on my permit 4 months later.
>>29565629
Not enough you don't. Not from a holster in concealment you don't.
>>29565658
Whatever you say, my man
>>29565671
You've been shooting for four months, probably only been to the range a few times, and you don't own a gun so you're not familiar with handling it off a range.
You're sitting on Mt. Stupid.
>>29565717
Because I don't own a gun yet? So the only way to be experienced enough to own a gun is it...own a gun? Apply yourself 0/10
>>29565901
The only way to get experienced enough to CC a gun is to own a gun, yes.
I'd be more than fine with you thinking you're ready and NDing into your leg, but there's no guarantee you'll only harm yourself so fucking practice first.
>>29565923
I honestly don't even know what you're arguing, or what you think I am arguing.
>>29565901
My argument is that you need to go buy a gun retard.
GO GET A GUN AND TRAIN WITH IT BEFORE YOU CARRY
You are that retard with a glock in an uncle mikes holster that ND's in the Applebee's restroom
>>29565901
k
>>29565944
You are an inexperienced kid that has less trigger time than most cops and you think you're ready to walk around with a gun in public.
You are stupid, and you think you know more than you do
You are a danger to yourself and others
You are arrogant
You are stupid
You seem to think performance at a CCW class is a metric of skill
You are three times stupid
You have no idea how to carry a gun or use it outside a range
>>29566004
You guys keep assuming so much about me from only a few lines of text. Guess my height and weight next.
>>29566025
You have been shooting rental guns for 4 months and think you shouldn't get your own until you can carry it. You think you're ready to rock with no additional training because you scored less than perfect on a joke of a test.
Stupid cubed.
>>29566056
3 assumptions in 2 sentences. At least you're not wasting space.
>>29566076
>I was only pretending to be exponentially stupid
Whatever, as long as the origonal guy realizes he's not ready to walk around with a gun.
>>29564723
Many a snoo snoo session has started from her trying to show me a choke hold or arm lock.
>>29566282
Details?
>>29564511
Do you keep all your magazines unloaded as well?
