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So I've been in Utah visiting family the last few days and I took my sister shooting for the very first time. I thought she had been before but it turned out she hadn't. So we had to begin from absolute zero, but that's ok.
I've convinced her over the past few months to get a CCW and so that's what we were trying to find for her. So I found this place TNT Guns and Range that was absolutely amazing, they even have an indoor skeet clinic! But anyways, I was leaning towards a G19 for her but I know enough not to push my suggestions on newbies, especially females so I let her hold a buncha different display models of various types to see what she liked. She was really fond of the G43 but their G43 was already rented out so we started with other pistols for her to try while we waited.
Tried a bunch but after a while we finally got the G43 and just for the hell of it I got her a G42 and some 380 Ammo for it just for her to see how she felt about the little pocket pistol. Surprisingly enough she loved the G42 more than the G43! Not it's cuteness or some stupid girly thing but actually how it felt in her hand and how it handled while firing. So I told her to trust her gut and get that, if that's what she wants. Ya it's not a 9 but a 380 that she actually loves and carries is better than a 9 that she is ambivalent about. So we ended our search and decided to finish our ammo with those two.
So while finishing our mags I got careless and started letting her load her mags without my supervision and suddenly she starts having issues with the G43. She does what I taught her and drops the mag and clears the malfunction and reinserted the mag. Again. And again. And again. Every round in the mag failed to feed and to eject so we had to manually cycle each one.
Finally she runs out of Ammo and I'm totally dumbfounded with why it would have gone from such an awesome little pistol to POS in minutes but when she hands me the gun I notice she had used the mag for the G42... I got nautious thinking how that could have ended so horribly if she had made that mistake with a 40 and not a 380. I felt so guilty afterwards and I immediately told her what could have happened so she will hopefully never make that mistake again. But ya it kinda soured a great trip.
But my saiga 74, Franken M16A2 and LWRC-DI were there to bail us out so it ended on a great note. I now am wondering if she'll get the CCW or an AR lol cuz she was pretty fond of the lwrc
I've convinced her over the past few months to get a CCW and so that's what we were trying to find for her. So I found this place TNT Guns and Range that was absolutely amazing, they even have an indoor skeet clinic! But anyways, I was leaning towards a G19 for her but I know enough not to push my suggestions on newbies, especially females so I let her hold a buncha different display models of various types to see what she liked. She was really fond of the G43 but their G43 was already rented out so we started with other pistols for her to try while we waited.
Tried a bunch but after a while we finally got the G43 and just for the hell of it I got her a G42 and some 380 Ammo for it just for her to see how she felt about the little pocket pistol. Surprisingly enough she loved the G42 more than the G43! Not it's cuteness or some stupid girly thing but actually how it felt in her hand and how it handled while firing. So I told her to trust her gut and get that, if that's what she wants. Ya it's not a 9 but a 380 that she actually loves and carries is better than a 9 that she is ambivalent about. So we ended our search and decided to finish our ammo with those two.
So while finishing our mags I got careless and started letting her load her mags without my supervision and suddenly she starts having issues with the G43. She does what I taught her and drops the mag and clears the malfunction and reinserted the mag. Again. And again. And again. Every round in the mag failed to feed and to eject so we had to manually cycle each one.
Finally she runs out of Ammo and I'm totally dumbfounded with why it would have gone from such an awesome little pistol to POS in minutes but when she hands me the gun I notice she had used the mag for the G42... I got nautious thinking how that could have ended so horribly if she had made that mistake with a 40 and not a 380. I felt so guilty afterwards and I immediately told her what could have happened so she will hopefully never make that mistake again. But ya it kinda soured a great trip.
But my saiga 74, Franken M16A2 and LWRC-DI were there to bail us out so it ended on a great note. I now am wondering if she'll get the CCW or an AR lol cuz she was pretty fond of the lwrc
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