Teach me how to shoot.

Tom

Tom

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My son in law (sorta, no wedding) asked me to teach him to shoot. As far as I know, he is not a prohibited person. I'll have to covertly figure that part out. My daughter goes shooting with her friends and has a fair background in shooting.
He was thrown out of the house when he was 14 and lived on the streets for a while. He turned things around and is now a responsible homeowner and employed. He is a lefty, but abhors the antifa crowd, so I don't think I'll help train the john brown gun club.
What I have available is a 6" security six, a lcrx3 and several different 9mms. In the rifle side of things, a glen field 22 auto, a 22 upper for ar15, and several mauser and Remington rifles.
My thoughts... after working the domestic abuse/ felony stuff into casual conversations, ( my daughter is smart as a whip and would figure out what I was trying to learn instantly) is to start him on 22 and really light 38 special loads in both revolvers to demonstrate the difference between heavy and light handguns. The high power stuff can come later. I figured I'd show him position shooting so he could see the difference between off hand and prone, etc.
I picked up the lee 6 banger 105 swc and it would be a good starting point for the revolver with a couple grains of red dot or ba10.
All thoughts appreciated.
 
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popper

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22 glen field! Won't accident,y sweep you, learn to shoot accurate, then to 22 pistol. Still has to prove himself.
Interesting yesterday, practice with bo pistol-2 hand hold. Press the trigger and holo sight frame rotates a few degrees. Hmm my trigger finger rotates the gun, don't notice when shooting. Worked about 5 min. trying to mentally stop it, no luck.
 
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Tom

Tom

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One of the problems I have is that this would be an exercise that I would only be available every two to four weeks for. I'd like to make it an intensive training thing, but that's not in the cards. My daughter can fill in the blanks, but she wants me to train him. I guess she has faith in me. I figured a 22 for rifle and light 38 for handguns.
 
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Intheshop

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Dry fire practice is going to be easier with the security six......

I'd have him dry fire a LOT,then load up some nice mild target 38's. Get halfway proficient dbl action with a revolver makes all other triggers easy.....
 
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Bret4207

Bret4207

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I would get him going on open sights, off a bench with a 22 rifle. Once he's making respectable groups, then worry about handguns. Without understanding sight alignment, handguns are 100 times harder.
 
Pistolero

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.22 rifle on the bench, Bret is right. Keep the number of initial variables down to a managable level. Front
sight, back sight, target and trigger. Later learn to hold the gun steady, and breathing, and standing positions.
 
fiver

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definitely sight alignment first.
drum into his head front sight front sight front sight.
after some boring bench time he will speak up about things and you can make your next assessment.
your daughter is turning him over to you [to teach him to shoot] to make an assessment of the boy as much as teach him to shoot.
you'll want to open the communication lines with her about your assessment in private as well.
 
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Tom

Tom

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I think I wanted to cram too much into this at once. You guys reminded me not to do that with the 22 rifle suggestions.
Fiver, with two grandchildren from them, I think it's a little late for an assessment, lol. They decided they didn't want to get married but they may as well be.
 
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Pistolero

Pistolero

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Unmarried is a hard row to hoe, best of luck to them. Hope they make it work.

And, regardless of what they think, the government (in many/most states) says that they are in a common law marriage, and things like child support, alimony and more are locked in, although the exact details of this do vary a good bit from state to state.

Let's hope it never becomes an issue of any concern.
 
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Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I'm also in the not understanding the not getting married crowd. Sounds like it's a done deal now.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

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I've known some folks that lived together a long time got married and everything went south . Within a year after the dissolution they we're back together and happy as all as long as they weren't married they were happy together .
 
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Bret,

It's been that way with me for many years, except I don't have a horse.
 
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