My daughter's first shoot

Up until last week my 21 year old daughter and her friends showed zero interest in my love of firearms, hunting or shooting, and in fact, it had become a joke in my house that dad's become a gun nut. I said "until last week". Friday my daughter (a 3rd year college student) contacted me and said that she and her long time friend were interested in looking into getting handgun permits. As you can guess, I was eager to give them the opportunity to give shooting a try, especially since I have gained so much enjoyment from it over the years, and I feel so strongly about the vital importance of the Second Amendment.

Sorry I couldn't get all the guns in this photo

I immediately contacted my buddy Dirk and asked him if I could bring the girls to his gun club in the next week or two. He responded with a big 'Yes' and within a week we were all at the range. When I bought my first handgun, my handgun experience and knowledge was extremely limited and I mistakenly took the advice of a salesman at a local gun shop. "The most popular concealed carry gun is a S&W Airweight .38 Special with 2" barrel." Little did I know that the little gun was a beast in disguise, and recoiled so hard that at times my fingers would be skinned and bleeding after shooting 100 rounds or so at the range. I didn't want these girls to make the same mistake as I did.

(L-R) My daughter Erin and Sarah

They sure can't say they didn't have a selection to chose from. We provided them with everything from a .22LR revolver to a .357 magnum, including revolvers, pistols, a .380, a couple .38 Specials, a 17HMR single action Ruger and others. They also had hundreds of rounds at their disposal, including all the purchased and hand loaded ammo that they could shoot. We laid it all out for them. Now they would soon discover if they liked shooting or not. I think the video says it all. The next time out, they get to shoot centerfire Henry rifles, ARs, an SKS and whatever else we can pull together.

I froze a bullet in flight!

Check out this single frame that I froze from one of the videos I filmed today. Going through the clip frame by frame, the highlight to the right of the barrel only appears in this single frame. It's the bullet leaving the barrel! The tiny highlight almost touching the barrel is in all the frames, but the highlight to the right of that appears only in this frame and is in alignment with the barrel prior to recoil.

Erin and Sarah modeling Maximumeyewear.com goggles.

I didn't have the girls shoot with these goggles on because I picked them up to wear over my prescription glasses. As you can see in my videos, I wear the pair Erin has on all the time and Sarah's goggles just arrived. I plan to use those for reloading, but since they look a lot better on them than on me, I asked them to do some modeling.

Thanks Dirk for the use of the range and a heck of a lot of guns!