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I'm a NCO in the US Air Force (yes yes your welcome, and yes we are getting paid next week 
), and there is a new Airmen that came to base from training and he's a short stature quiet guy. Everyone else in the shop thought he was "wierd" and avoided him like the plague.
I knowing that isolating a new person is the quickest way to get him hating life, walked up to him and started to ask him questions. Something interesting happened, he talked back. Well fast track a few weeks, and no one else will still talk to him, and he failed a no notice inspection. Boss man asked me to Mentor him, since he talks to me.
I thought to myself... what can I teach him? Then I looked at the calender and saw it was shooting this weekend and asked him if he wanted to go along, and he did.
I brought my Springfield XD .45, my Mossberg 590, and my Savage 30-06 to the range. However there are two ranges, and the only one open today was the "shorter range one", although it's a 105 yard range I was only allowed to shoot my pistol.
I asked why I can't shoot my shotgun, and the range master said they only want those on the trap/skeet range or the 500 yard range because of their caliber, the shooter range being limited to .45 and 5.56 or smaller. I was unhappy because I love shooting my shotgun.
Anyways, to the meat of the story I went through about 80 rounds of .45 showing him the "fundamentals" (yeah yeah, I still have trouble using the sights, but I'm getting better ) he has smaller hands, so the finger placement was a little different. However at the end of the hour he was hitting paper pretty consistently for a first timer and had good trigger control and never pointed the firearm in a unsafe manner.
I felt a little better about myself for teaching someone how to use a pistol, yet a few coworkers already said that I was wrong to teach him and are even more scared.
He's not a bad guy, just quiet and living in a unfamiliar lifestyle, he's not scary and besides he has no ready access to firearms anyways. I think he actually opened up a bit more today, he talked a lot more after the shooting than he did before.
), and there is a new Airmen that came to base from training and he's a short stature quiet guy. Everyone else in the shop thought he was "wierd" and avoided him like the plague.I knowing that isolating a new person is the quickest way to get him hating life, walked up to him and started to ask him questions. Something interesting happened, he talked back. Well fast track a few weeks, and no one else will still talk to him, and he failed a no notice inspection. Boss man asked me to Mentor him, since he talks to me.
I thought to myself... what can I teach him? Then I looked at the calender and saw it was shooting this weekend and asked him if he wanted to go along, and he did.
I brought my Springfield XD .45, my Mossberg 590, and my Savage 30-06 to the range. However there are two ranges, and the only one open today was the "shorter range one", although it's a 105 yard range I was only allowed to shoot my pistol.
I asked why I can't shoot my shotgun, and the range master said they only want those on the trap/skeet range or the 500 yard range because of their caliber, the shooter range being limited to .45 and 5.56 or smaller. I was unhappy because I love shooting my shotgun.
Anyways, to the meat of the story I went through about 80 rounds of .45 showing him the "fundamentals" (yeah yeah, I still have trouble using the sights, but I'm getting better
) he has smaller hands, so the finger placement was a little different. However at the end of the hour he was hitting paper pretty consistently for a first timer and had good trigger control and never pointed the firearm in a unsafe manner.I felt a little better about myself for teaching someone how to use a pistol, yet a few coworkers already said that I was wrong to teach him and are even more scared.
He's not a bad guy, just quiet and living in a unfamiliar lifestyle, he's not scary and besides he has no ready access to firearms anyways. I think he actually opened up a bit more today, he talked a lot more after the shooting than he did before.
That's terrible that people don't know you can own a firearm!
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