Womens Issues in Guns

[TexasT]

So what are your interests in guns? What topics would you like to see discussed? Personally, I want to learn skeet and trap shooting if I could ever get a whole weekend off...and a shotgun. I'm pretty new to guns so I need to learn a lot.

Post em up ladies! Let's hear your thoughts.

You can vote for more than one option.

[SueMe]

I like to hunt deer, grouse, duck, and some day I'd like to go bear huntin'. I've never tried skeet and trap shooting but I think I'd like that also.

[TexasT]

So let's get some good info about skeet and trap shooting. Missharpshooter seems to know a great deal about it. Maybe she could give us the scoop. She posted a little about it in the other thread. What we need to know is about which guns are good to shoot with, how to aim, about the stations, etc.

Men, don't be afraid to vote for a topic. Lots of you have wives/gfs that might be interested in these topics. This is a women's forum so the females have a place they feel they can ask question, but the topics can be learning experiences for all.

[missharpshooter]

Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays are my passion. I first started out as a friend of mine needed a female partner to be in this Skeet tournament. I started out with a Mossberg pump 12ga. and I wasn't very good, but I was determined to keep shooting till I won a medal which I did several years later. I was in a tournament and it was windy as hell and blowing dust so you could hardly see. I came in third place 47 out of 50. By then I was shooting a Beretta 12 ga. with a 26' barrel. As I mentioned before when you shoot Skeet, you are on a half moon course with 8 stations. You have a high house and a low house. The birds come out the same way each time. On station 1which is under the high house you shoot a high house then a low house then a set of doubles. Then you move around to each station and as you go you lead the birds. As I mentioned like on station 4 you lead the bird about 4 to 5 feet. The equipment is totally different in Skeet and Trap. In Skeet you use cylinder bore or a wide open pattern (skeet choke) with a shorter barrel 26' 28'. In Trap you use a Monte Carlo stock some have adjustable combs and use a 32' or longer barrel with a tighter pattern. You have 5 stations and shoot five rounds on each station and move across to each station the trap house is out in front of you and the birds go in 75 or more different directions at a speed around 75 mph. As you gain your handicap you move back in yardage. I use different chokes depending on how the weather is when I am shooting and what yardage I am shooting from. I have shot SKB O/U 12 ga. which was one of my favorite guns I also had the sister model 500. I also had a Whin 1200. a Rem 870 and 1187 sem-i- auto with two stocks. Beretta 682 O/U double combo with two barrels. Four Beretta's and my new one is a Rizzini 12ga. O/U. If I have left anything out or you would like to ask me anything.....I will give it my best (Shot) to answer any questions......I am a past champion in Trap and Sporting Clays which is my favorite game all simulated game birds, like Doves on high screaming ole birds to a water hole, Greenheads
and so forth ....Sporting Clays is the fun game and you change chokes at most stations. You also use different ammo with these games, like I said before I used to shoot arm busters, heavy loads....(never paper wads)...now I mostly shoot Double A's 8's easy lights 1 1/8 ounce. Good Shooting.......Lady Di

[Triggerjerk]

I'll tell you my wife's story. I got her a nice S&W Model 34, which is a .22 snubby. She has shot my .38's but likes the .22's better. I was working second and third shifts, and the gun was her house gun. At the time we lived in a city of 100,000. She had the gun on the couch with her two different times when I came home from second shift. Seems that things went bump in the night.

I recently got a Ruger MK II and wanted to familiarize her with it. I took an old t-shirt and put a 14" x 20" piece of cardboard in it. I taped a coat hanger to this cardboard, bent the top backwards, and hung it from a pipe at the sandpit. We now had a real silhouette. At first she was aggravated with me for wasting this old shirt. But after she shot it full of holes she took it to work to show the other girls. The next gun we're going to work on is my Beretta Tomcat in .32 auto. A really nice gun and a good compromise between .22's and a .38.

[TexasT]

^No one can ever be too safe. I encourage all my female friends to carry and get their CHLs. Seems like the ones I talk to are very interested in protecting themselves with firearms. When I offer to take them to the range with me that's when they get a little more hesitant. If you're going to have a gun then you need to know how to use it.

On a different note, I remember back to when somebody made a thread wondering if loading mags to full capacity would damage the springs. I've thought about this a lot, and I think what I should do is keep my magazine loaded to near full capacity (14 cartridges is max) because you never know what type of situation you will get in. Since I'm going to do that I am also going to replace my magazines regularly. What do you all think about that?

[Triggerjerk]

I wonder this, too. I have a LEO buddy that had the bottom plastic shatter off his magazine after a lot of time. My thoughts on having to shoot that many rounds are mixed. It would assuredly be a case of multiple opponent shooters. The LA riots of 1992 and the Katrina aftermath are my reference points for this. Though, years ago a group of campers was attacked in NH by another large group. Also, there are cases of cars being "road blocked" on lonley roads at night. For this event I carry an extra box of ammo in my car. I tape both ends of the box with masking tape. It keeps the box from opening when you do not want it to, but you can tear it easily if you have to. I would bail out into the woods with handgun and extra ammo.

I would rotate my magazines weekly and let them "rest". Maybe that practice has no basis in reality, but it feels good. I generally carry a revolver with two speed loaders. If 18 shots cannot get me through the problem, I probably cannot solve the problem. If you have two magazines full and a box in the car, you should be good to go.

I know that you carry a .40, TT, but I have found that when I am teaching uninitiated women to shoot they like the DA revolvers better. The simplicity of the DA trigger combined with the safety of it being "safe" after every shot appeals to beginning shooters that may not be real entusiasts like us. They also seem to like the .22's better. Better than nothing...

[TexasT]

Missharpshooter, When I am looking for a skeet o/u gun will I have to have modifications to the barrel by going to get it shortened or do some guns already come like that? I saw some o/u shotguns even coming at 18' barrel. I'm pretty gun ignorant so excuse my dumb question lol.

Triggerjerk, I love my .40 and have never tried a revolver, though I hear many females commenting that they like them. I am thinking about buying a more compact gun for primary carry and leaving the .40 for home defense. It does have a little kick to it, but it's nothing that I can't handle. The whole reason I got a semi-auto is because you can carry more rounds and it's easy to reload. On top of that, when I took the shooting test for my CHL I wanted to use a semi-auto because if you pass with a semi-auto you can carry both semi and revolver.

[ArkansasHunter]

Triggerjerk that is a very good idea you have and maybe we all should practice worst case sanarieo's.
And the bonus of doing that, the bad guys want expect a defensive action.
That would make a good thread...What would you do if you were ?????

[Triggerjerk]

TT, I love my Beretta Tomcat in .32, and so does Dr. Larry K. A good choice for a compact carry gun. Even in .32 I do not feel undergunned like I did with the .25 auto. Dosen't have the cylinder bulge of a snubby. Airweight snubbies have a lot of recoil.

[TexasT]

I was thinking about a 9mm or .380. A little less stopping power but still efficient. I've seen some pretty small 9mms even with exchangeable handle pads to fit the hands of a woman. Of course those guns are expensive.

[Triggerjerk]

I just bought a really nice used S&W snubby for $289. Only five shots, but with two Bianchi speed strips... A lady where I used to work carries a .38 snubby all the time in her pocket book. The deals are out there. You have to haunt the gun shops 'cause they go quick.

[TexasT]

I got my S&W for a really good price. This Pawn Shop in my home town that sells new and used guns has some GREAT deals. I am still a student and will have to save up for one though lol. I have a gun that I can use for carry so I'm not immediately concerned about it, but I do want to start looking probably at the beginning of next year.

[jerry]

I picked SD and safety for my wife. She loves to shoot but I can't get her to get involved in the forums.

[TexasT]

My safety list has been added to the Women's forum. Check it out lol.