*sigh* Will I have to tie your shoes for you as well?

[wolfie]

I've never shot a gun. Never even held one. Even I can tell the girl in the pic above is doing it wrong

How does she avoid landing on her ass? It looks like her CG is outside of (behind) her "footprint", and if she fires the gun the recoil will add to the tipping moment.

[Lovecats]

How does she avoid landing on her ass? It looks like her CG is outside of (behind) her "footprint", and if she fires the gun the recoil will add to the tipping moment.

And maybe if we're lucky someone will post it on youtube.

[Rosco the Iroc]

The pic is a bit exaggerated, but it's the most common form of wrong stance.
Stand straight with feet shoulder with apart means stand like you want to "keep on truck'in"

[Slave to the Phone]

Just a little something to let Rosco know that some people can learn...A while back, I worked for 2 insurance agents. A was an avid gun owner and B had never touched a gun in his life and didn't want to. One day, A brought in a new gun that he had just bought to show to me. (Things are different in Arizona, this was perfectly acceptable.)

A pulled his peg-leg revolver out of his brief case, opened the cylinder, checked to be sure that it wasn't loaded and handed it to me. Of course, I also opened the cylinder, checked to be sure it wasn't loaded and then did all of the appropriate looking and admiring. B was feeling left out, so asked to see it as well.

B amazed us by fumbling for a minute, then opening the cylinder and inspecting the inside of the gun. When A complimented B on his safe gun handling, B confessed that he didn't really know what he was doing, but that since both of us had done it, he felt that it was something that he should do as well. Then he ruined the moment by asking why he should be looking for bullets because we had already done it!

[SteeleDragon78]

Then he ruined the moment by asking why he should be looking for bullets because we had already done it!

wouldn't call that ruining it, that's a perfect chance at educating. get him to understand more about guns and he might not fear them as much.

[Rosco the Iroc]

Normally when I'm handing a gun so someone I clear the gun, and show them it's clear and then hand it to him that way. (mag out, action open) So they don't need to fumble with it to check that it is clear and have the possible chance of a accidental discharge if you didn't make sure before handing it to them and they mishandle it.

[Slave to the Phone]

wouldn't call that ruining it, that's a perfect chance at educating. get him to understand more about guns and he might not fear them as much.

You are right, and A did spend a few happy minutes telling B why we had both done the things we did. I guess the moral of my story is something that most folks already know...its easier to teach good habits to someone who doesn't have bad habits ingrained.

My sweetie and I will drive to a more expensive range past the cheaper one just because the folks shooting at the cheaper one can be a little scary with their bad gun handling habits.

[Rosco the Iroc]

^ true.
Again with the foreign grandfather with son. I added a new country. They come in I give the welcome/safety speil. Asked the all important fact finding questions to know what level of instructions I will need to give. I notice GP is nodding when I'm not really saying anything and son says he has experience and was military-clue #2. (he answered for him)
#3 was when he went to shoot a pistol and asked a question and he just nodded and gave me a blank look and tried to hold it in a way that would of hurt if he did it that way.
OK son, who's military? -Portugal oh ok, that's a new one. I can add that to the Israeli, Russian, Ukrainian, British, French, S Africa I've had there. Oh he doesn't do any English.
*sigh* yea son that's something I would need to know right away.
After more struggles he did shoot and got the son to understand not just why but the how I was showing them how to shoot and was then able to convey this to GP and the rest went great. I hate doing it that way, I want to be able to control the shooter directly. But again being in the Navy and around the world gave me an ear to gather he was correctly passing on info and be on the other side of the situation.