http://www.youtube.c...d&v=4xWOFCkTZzk

Holy friggin muzzle sweep, Batman!

"She never shot guns before and got a little over excited".

 

If that is a valid excuse for almost shooting him in the face, I think he is safe if he gets "a little over excited" and shoots something in her face...

 

 

This is the reason I always do the Barney Fife Drill with new shooters. Load one round, fire. If anyone turns the gun will be empty.

This is the reason I always do the Barney Fife Drill with new shooters. Load one round, fire. If anyone turns the gun will be empty.

 

Exact same thing I do specially with females.

Holy crap!

WOW!

She's hot.

WHOA !!! made me jump.

This is the reason I always do the Barney Fife Drill with new shooters. Load one round, fire. If anyone turns the gun will be empty.

 

Yep..... exactly

I like the one round idea.

 

When I take friends on their first time to the range, I "support" their elbow until I know they won't turn and understand what they are holding. Worst thing I've had happen at the range is an old friend, on his first trip, shooting out a ceiling light at the Bullet Hole.

This is a TRAIN WRECK! She was laughing, not paying attention before she even fired the gun. If I was her Instructor, I would have taken the gun away from her and did some serious training prior to letting her handle again! This is also a classic example of why I don't go to any public ranges! People who don't know which end of the gun the bullets go in feel RUSHED to shoot since they're paying by the hour for the lane. So they stop instructing and try to catch-up with the round count, and that's when accidents like this happen!

 

I also agree with Griz, and I even start a Newbie with an empty gun, so that new shooters can learn trigger squeeze and sight alignment while dry-firing a few times. I also teach Newbies on a double action revolver using single action for putting the rounds down range. This way, even if their finger discipline isn't perfect, they're a lot less likely to AD, since it would require a real "pull" instead of a squeeze. AFTER they shoot the revolver, I move to the pistols. One step at a time, nice and easy.

This is what is scaring the shit out of me lately. I have been shooting since the age of seven-eightish which for those in the cheap seats would be circa 1977, yes the very same year Star Wars and Close Encounters came out, and have had safety drilled into me from the very beginning. The number of people in their 30s, 40s, 50s and even 60s that are getting into shooting with no military, law enforcement training or family/hunting tradition background is making the firing line a very unsafe place (IMHO at least). I routinely catch people doing very dumb shit. Bottom line if you know a new shooter please take time and stress the basic safe handling as much as possible. I don't know any other way to deal with the massive influx of newb shooters.

Brings back memories of my LAST trip to Shore Shot. The guy in the stall next to me was "teaching" 3 girls how to shoot. After being swept the second time, the RO intervened but, I was packing up and have not been back to any public range since.

Hey! Isn't that MMA host Joe Rogan in the stall behind her?

i would have flipped out on the guy with her. She may not know better but somebody teaching somebody else should

Whoa!!! That's nuts! It looks like a lot of time must have been spent on proper and safe handling of a firearm prior to putting it in her hands.

Brings back memories of my LAST trip to Shore Shot. The guy in the stall next to me was "teaching" 3 girls how to shoot. After being swept the second time, the RO intervened but, I was packing up and have not been back to any public range since.

 

You mean he was sniffin' perfumed cleavage and checkin' out all of the curves instead of watching the muzzle direction! There, I translated that for you, lol!

 

I don't care how nice the little push-up is workin' if I'm getting swept by a muzzle!

Brings back memories of my LAST trip to Shore Shot. The guy in the stall next to me was "teaching" 3 girls how to shoot. After being swept the second time, the RO intervened but, I was packing up and have not been back to any public range since.

 

Yeah there's been a lot of new shooters at Shore Shot recently. A lot of dudes dragging their female companions in with them especially. Every time I'm there a RSO has had intervene in respect to muzzle direction. Sometimes they even call cease fire and remove the offending persons.

 

Someone please humour me and tell me those lane dividers are bullet proof.

 

Undeterred, I still go to Shore Shot on a regular basis. But I try to go when it is empty like when everyone else is at work. And as the considerate person that I am, I shoot all my rounds through the same hole so that someone can re-use my target when I'm done.

This is the reason I always do the Barney Fife Drill with new shooters. Load one round, fire. If anyone turns the gun will be empty.

I also teach Newbies on a double action revolver using single action for putting the rounds down range. This way, even if their finger discipline isn't perfect, they're a lot less likely to AD, since it would require a real "pull" instead of a squeeze.

 

That's exactly how the boys at GFH taught me. And when my turn comes to show a noob how to shoot, I'll do exactly the same. After I subject them to an hour long drill on gun safety, of course.

 

 

Yeah there's been a lot of new shooters at Shore Shot recently. A lot of dudes dragging their female companions in with them especially. Every time I'm there a RSO has had intervene in respect to muzzle direction. Sometimes they even call cease fire and remove the offending persons.

 

Someone please humour me and tell me those lane dividers are bullet proof.

 

Undeterred, I still go to Shore Shot on a regular basis. But I try to go when it is empty like when everyone else is at work. And as the considerate person that I am, I shoot all my rounds through the same hole so that someone can re-use my target when I'm done.

 

I take comfort in the fact that they are strict about uncasing and loading weapons in the ports only. I've been to the "other" range. Real nice setup but I wasn't comfortable with people being able to uncase, handle and load stuff behind me.