Need advice (UPDATE: Pics and range report)

[GettoPhilosopher]

The Saiga was a little large for her, thus the stance. The odd pistol grip hold on the M16 in the pic was her trying a little too hard to follow my advice and keep her finger off the trigger till firing. While firing, she held it properly.

As for the Glock, she was cautious about her thumbs. Fired one mag, didn't like it, went back to kicking @$$ with the rifle. Didn't feel the need to correct her. I taught her proper trigger discipline, gun safety rules, iron sights, muzzle discipline, trigger control, and more. She consistently hit steel at 100y all day long. I think she did just fine. *proud*

She had a blast, wants to come along next time. It was a good day.

I think you're leaning correctly with the "boyfriend" (Problem Child) and I probably wouldn't want to even meet him.




Those pics! that's a very bad stance with the S12, shoulder scrunched, feet together The grip on the handgun is bad and even dangerous. Never put your support hand thumb like that. There are plenty of stories where the slide rips over the top of the thumb or a broken thumb is the result. BOTH thumbs should be on the same side, palms together with the support fingers wrapped around the fingers of the grip hand.

Basic stances and proper grip can be found all over the net. Teach her the proper basics now and she'll shoot much better.

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[Stormfeather]

Great job calling it on this one!

My suggestion would be this, take the guy friend and invite him and her over for a saturday afternoon bbq. Ensure that theres no loud music and plenty of opportunity to converse and get a feel for him yourself. It sounds like you have a great rapport with the kids you have helped, and I commend you for it, not alot of people are this way, and I personally think there should be alot more folks this way!

Now, as for that horrible grip on that glock. . . I know you said . . . .

I taught her proper trigger discipline, gun safety rules, iron sights, muzzle discipline, trigger control, and more.

. . . but you also need to teach her proper grip. No shooting discipline anywhere would endorse this as a proper grip! She may find shooting a .22 LR more fun than that glock, and it wont help if her first impression on how to hold it is the wrong one. She may have already decided she didnt like handguns due to improper grip. See the route im working here? But enough busting your chops over the grip thing, you did a great thing here, keep it up!