She expressed an interest in learning to shoot, so yesterday after canning another batch of pickles during the day we went to the range.
I went over the basics with her a couple of times of how the gun operates and showed her a couple of hand holds, and had her practice dry firing and figuring out which hold was more comfortable for her.
Started her out at 5 yds and told her it's a lot more difficult than what it looks. I have to say for everything being completely foreign to her, I was impressed by her ability to group shots together. The 9mm High Point I have has a 3.5" barrel. Very easy if you stab the trigger or flinch to go completely off target even at short range. Especially for a complete novice.
Just had her shooting at 8"x11" office paper.
1st target, 9 shots. Three of them in a half moon group inside the 2" dot. All of them would've been in the chest area of a man target. 1 possible marginal hit.
Next target was 8 shots. Again 3 in the dot, the rest would've been chest hits. 1st time shooting a semi-pistol of any kind. Guess I shouldn't of told her it's a lot harder than it looks. :? :lol:
I went over the basics with her a couple of times of how the gun operates and showed her a couple of hand holds, and had her practice dry firing and figuring out which hold was more comfortable for her.
Started her out at 5 yds and told her it's a lot more difficult than what it looks. I have to say for everything being completely foreign to her, I was impressed by her ability to group shots together. The 9mm High Point I have has a 3.5" barrel. Very easy if you stab the trigger or flinch to go completely off target even at short range. Especially for a complete novice.
Just had her shooting at 8"x11" office paper.
1st target, 9 shots. Three of them in a half moon group inside the 2" dot. All of them would've been in the chest area of a man target. 1 possible marginal hit.
Next target was 8 shots. Again 3 in the dot, the rest would've been chest hits. 1st time shooting a semi-pistol of any kind. Guess I shouldn't of told her it's a lot harder than it looks. :? :lol: