What have you done lately to further the shooting sports?
I have been working on my brother for awhile now (not anti, just ignorant) and he finally got himself a 10/22. Now he won't stop talking about it, ha! Now I need to get him into a handgun, but there's a roadblock... his wife doesn't like handguns (too dangerous or something, can't quite understand her logic). Anyways, still working on him.
I took my other brother and his girlfriend out shooting, which they both loved. His girlfriend could only shoot my 9mm, as the 40 and 45 had too much of a recoil (she's as skinny as a toothpick). He liked the handguns ok, but he loved shooting my 223. He wants to get one for himself, but he's a poor college student :cray:.
Took my cousin out, who has a couple of guns but rarely goes shooting anymore. He shot my 223 and had a blast, and is now talking about getting back into shooting regularly, he said he forgot how much fun it was.
I held a "shooting party" of sorts (bunch of guys go up into the hills above my house) with some of the people I work with, after which we had a BBQ at my house. There was 7 of us who attended. One of them didn't own any guns and was hesitant about coming along with us, but we assured him that he could use our guns/ammo and that he would have a blast. Sure enough, the 6 of us brought along our arsenals and there were plenty of guns/ammo to go around. Needless to say he had a blast, and especially liked shooting the shotguns at clays. Fast forward a few months, and he now owns 2 firearms (Mossberg Shotgun and Marlin .22 rifle) and he just graduated from Hunters Ed.
I almost have as much fun taking new people shooting with me as I do shooting the guns myself. Almost..
-Plop
