Gun Control & RKBA

DonP

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17. That's the same as my "fun" loads, 2.6 to 2.8 Titegroup under a 158 grain SWC

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 04:34 PM

Mar 2016

I get a lot of new, first time shooters, mostly women, so recoil can be a big fear for some of them. They've heard "horror" stories of how much a gun "kicks" so they fear they won't be able to control it.

If I can get them to learn the basics of sight alignment, trigger control and follow through with a soft shooting, stable gun like the GP100, without flinching and anticipating that recoil, they'll adjust over time to regular loads.

By the end of their training I have most of them shoot a magazine from one of my Mil Spec 1911s, just for fun and to see that recoil isn't really the monster they were afraid of. By the end of the magazine most of them have a big grim on their face.

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Bill Clinton says percentage of gun-owning households dropping every year [View all] SecularMotion Mar 2016 OP

That must be why every year there are so many fewer gun deaths AllyCat Mar 2016 #1

gun deaths due to accidents and homicide gejohnston Mar 2016 #3

I was going to correct you, but it has been done. Thoroughly. nt Eleanors38 Mar 2016 #10

Or, fewer and fewer people are admitting that they have a firearm in their home, GGJohn Mar 2016 #2

I believe those would be legal households JonathanRackham Mar 2016 #4

Out of the roughly 300 million guns in the US SecularMotion Mar 2016 #5

A very good question. JonathanRackham Mar 2016 #6

Make up your mind? DonP Mar 2016 #7

Statistically speaking... CompanyFirstSergeant Mar 2016 #8

Together we can work to reverse this trend....introduce a new shooter today. ileus Mar 2016 #9

Did my part DonP Mar 2016 #12

GP100.....well it will also keep her from blowing away in a storm. ileus Mar 2016 #14

A lot of the students use it, to shoot ... not as a boat anchor DonP Mar 2016 #15

My wife has a 642 for her EDC, when we target practice I load 2.7gr of titegroup ileus Mar 2016 #16

That's the same as my "fun" loads, 2.6 to 2.8 Titegroup under a 158 grain SWC DonP Mar 2016 #17

I wonder if Bill's stats are from the same sources predicting the Mich. primary. Eleanors38 Mar 2016 #11

Wonder how valid that point is after the huge increase this past fall/winter. jmg257 Mar 2016 #13

The local judge... CompanyFirstSergeant Mar 2016 #18

Billy is full of crap. NT pablo_marmol Mar 2016 #19

Bill is full of shit. Lizzie Poppet Mar 2016 #20

clinton is half true, but still damning for gunworld jimmy the one Mar 2016 #21

Did you think we wouldn't notice this bullshit was recycled? friendly_iconoclast Mar 2016 #22