Disclaimer: Some of the pictures are posed. In all of the pictures that were not action shots the Firearms were unloaded and on safe (where applicable)
So here is the story. My wife is very against guns. She had a friend commit suicide with one many many years ago and she has this irrational fear of guns. I put my foot down last year and got my license and after receiving it, got my first gun. I keep it locked in the house if I'm not carrying but its never usually there because I carry it everywhere it is allowed by law. When I first starting talking about obtaining my licence my 12 year old son who is extremely smart and responsible for his age caught on to her apprehension and negative outlook on guns. He was very very scared that if I got a gun I would shoot myself. After having a few conversations with him and having my L.E.O. friend talk with him he warmed up a little to the prospect of "Daddy" owning a gun. So I got my gun in January and carry it everywhere. I carry in the house even. For a month or so while I was getting used to carrying it it was concealed in the house all the time. Over time though I would allow it to be open carry and the family got used to daddy carrying a gun. So about a month ago my son started to show some interest shooting and asked if he could go to the range. We went to Braintree on Saturday and pulled out all the stops. First thing he got was an hour firearms class taught to him by my L.E.O. friend. then he got a familiarization course on what we were going to shoot. First up was a M&P AR-15 22.
He loved it! could not get the smile off of his face.
Next we went to the AR-15. It has a new EoTech sight so we had to sight it in. Man he jumpped at the first shot. He came over to me and told me he was apprehensive about shooting it. I told him it was not a big deal and I would not force him into shooting anything he would be uncomfortable with. We (my L.e.o. friend and I) proceded to put a few mags downrange and after a little bit my son came up and said he would try it. Well man if he did not fall in love with that too. We were shooting 50 and 100 foot targets and man if he was not getting great groupings right off the bat
After a few hours at the rifle range we moved down to the Handgun Range. This one, I myself was unsure of. He is a small kid and all we had to shoot was a HK .45c and a M&P .40c Both have a pretty violent recoil for a kid. He was confident so we loaded up one round in the HK and let him try. He got the round in the bottle and did not drop the gun but had a hard time with the recoil as expected. The gun (even being a compact) was just to big for him to control.
He did not like it so we moved on to my M&P .40c. This went much better. The grip is smaller so he was able to get a better hold on it. While the recoil is large with the gun, After 30 rounds through it (all single loaded so we did not have any misfires on recoil) he was able to get a good handle on the recoil and was disappointed that we were out of ammo
All in all we had a wonderful day and at the end of it he was talking about saving up his allowance to get more ammo. I know my wife will never be "ok" with guns or me owning one but I now have a new friend to share my hobby with.
Thanks for reading
Eway
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Final pic of the day : ) yeah that's my NES shirt.
So here is the story. My wife is very against guns. She had a friend commit suicide with one many many years ago and she has this irrational fear of guns. I put my foot down last year and got my license and after receiving it, got my first gun. I keep it locked in the house if I'm not carrying but its never usually there because I carry it everywhere it is allowed by law. When I first starting talking about obtaining my licence my 12 year old son who is extremely smart and responsible for his age caught on to her apprehension and negative outlook on guns. He was very very scared that if I got a gun I would shoot myself. After having a few conversations with him and having my L.E.O. friend talk with him he warmed up a little to the prospect of "Daddy" owning a gun. So I got my gun in January and carry it everywhere. I carry in the house even. For a month or so while I was getting used to carrying it it was concealed in the house all the time. Over time though I would allow it to be open carry and the family got used to daddy carrying a gun. So about a month ago my son started to show some interest shooting and asked if he could go to the range. We went to Braintree on Saturday and pulled out all the stops. First thing he got was an hour firearms class taught to him by my L.E.O. friend. then he got a familiarization course on what we were going to shoot. First up was a M&P AR-15 22.
He loved it! could not get the smile off of his face.
Next we went to the AR-15. It has a new EoTech sight so we had to sight it in. Man he jumpped at the first shot. He came over to me and told me he was apprehensive about shooting it. I told him it was not a big deal and I would not force him into shooting anything he would be uncomfortable with. We (my L.e.o. friend and I) proceded to put a few mags downrange and after a little bit my son came up and said he would try it. Well man if he did not fall in love with that too. We were shooting 50 and 100 foot targets and man if he was not getting great groupings right off the bat
After a few hours at the rifle range we moved down to the Handgun Range. This one, I myself was unsure of. He is a small kid and all we had to shoot was a HK .45c and a M&P .40c Both have a pretty violent recoil for a kid. He was confident so we loaded up one round in the HK and let him try. He got the round in the bottle and did not drop the gun but had a hard time with the recoil as expected. The gun (even being a compact) was just to big for him to control.
He did not like it so we moved on to my M&P .40c. This went much better. The grip is smaller so he was able to get a better hold on it. While the recoil is large with the gun, After 30 rounds through it (all single loaded so we did not have any misfires on recoil) he was able to get a good handle on the recoil and was disappointed that we were out of ammo
All in all we had a wonderful day and at the end of it he was talking about saving up his allowance to get more ammo. I know my wife will never be "ok" with guns or me owning one but I now have a new friend to share my hobby with.
Thanks for reading
Eway
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Final pic of the day : ) yeah that's my NES shirt.
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