First time shooting

[forsmant]

Today my brother and I went to the gun range and shot a 40 caliber glock. My brother is a lieutenant in the Marine Corps and I had not seen him seen him since Christmas of 2006. He was in Iraq for seven months during that time. This was my first time shooting a real gun. I had butterflies in my stomach the whole time. It was fun, though.

 

[amy31416]

Today my brother and I went to the gun range and shot a 40 caliber glock. My brother is a lieutenant in the Marine Corps and I had not seen him seen him since Christmas of 2006. He was in Iraq for seven months during that time. This was my first time shooting a real gun. I had butterflies in my stomach the whole time. It was fun, though.

My experience as well, I've shot a gun a couple times and it was nervewracking as hell the first time. Especially since the range had a little influx of a bunch of hoodlum types whooping it up and rapid-firing.

So how'd it go, ya hit the target at all? I was much more accurate than my "experienced" companion.

 

[WRellim]

Oh, this is about guns!

Fine... good. (Whew!)

 

[AFM]

I came into this thread

 

[Kludge]

I came into this thread

Cool.

 

[soapmistress]

Cool beans I always feel a little nervous beforehand. Glad you had fun! I've never shot a 40

 

[pcosmar]

Girls with guns, COOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPb7qJqv2ZE&feature=related

I remember my first time, but it was long long ago.

 

[soapmistress]

I was much more accurate than my "experienced" companion.

HA! Me too, didn't get invited back again either. Did you?

 

[asgardshill]

Gun porn. (Slobber, slobber ...)

 

[amy31416]

HA! Me too, didn't get invited back again either. Did you?

No ma'am! Silly boys.

He had an HK 9mm, I had a S&W .38 revolver. About halfway through, he blames the gun on his inaccuracy, so we switched. Heh. Same results (though I did prefer the .38.)

 

[acptulsa]

I remember my first time, but it was long long ago.

Me too. Laid the barrel of a .45 caliber caplock-and-ball muzzleloader on my mother's shoulder because I was, like, five and couldn't hold that barrel out level with my yet short arms. Yanked the trigger, got distracted by the hammer slamming the cap, got my shoulder mule-kicked and about made my mother deaf. I asked if I had hit the target and my father chuckled.

My father made the rifle. Still over Mom's fireplace. No one to blame but me--she used to use it to pluck the eyes out of squirrel targets at a few hundred yards and he used to use it to take out two carefully placed clay pigeons with one lead ball by shooting the edge of an axe. Accurate and a beautiful thing, too...

 

[soapmistress]

No ma'am! Silly boys.

He had an HK 9mm, I had a S&W .38 revolver. About halfway through, he blames the gun on his inaccuracy, so we switched. Heh. Same results (though I did prefer the .38.)

Too funny! I had a S&W 9mm and a 12 gauge and a 22 rifle. I did way better with the 9