Gustav Refugees and New Shooters

[First Shirt]

When Gustav started rolling in, my stepson, his wife and munchkins (3), her sister, husband, and one munchkin, and three friends all descended on Rancho Imperfecto to ride it out. One day while they were here, we (the guys) went out back and were plinking with .22s. I'd gone to the house for something, and saw the girls standing on the back porch looking wistful, so I offered to babysit while they went and shot. In unison, they turned to me and said, "But we don't know how!"

Well, hell, we can fix that!

Put the dads to work baby-sitting, and we started with The Four Rules, made sure the eyes and ears were in place correctly, and set up targets at 15 meters. Using The Boss's GP-100 and .38 wadcutter loads, they were soon ventilating paper with a vengence. Progressed to .38 +P loads, and they still had no problems. Finally went to full-house .357s, and moved back to 25 meters, where they continued to hit COM on tombstone targets. I don't know if it was the gun, the loads, or the superior quality of their instruction, but they did really well for beginners, and now they both want GP-100s of their own.

All in all, it was a good day. And when they left, they promised that next time they'd have their own guns to shoot!

[Erik]

Great!

[randy]

Sierra Hotel!

[cu74]

And when they left, they promised that next time they'd have their own guns to shoot!

Good job on finding/training new shooters. You may not have made points with the parents, though - now they have to come up with the money for the guns .

[308Mike]

OUTSTANDING!!! And I'm sure you didn't pass up the opportunity to let them know if the Smelly-Man gets his way, they won't be able to buy & have handguns to protect themselves.

[Combat Controller]

Great job! Soon we will be able to roll back all the silly laws too!

[FastRope71]

I love the smell of newbie shooters, it smells like.... cordite. Cordite and victory.