Another visit with Oleg.

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Well, she is 22 years old and within one semester of graduating from College with her Bachelors degree. I don't think that is too young to learn life's lessons.
She has lived away from home (even though it is not very far away) since she turned 18. She has had a drivers license and a job since she was 16 and she has had a license to carry a pistol since she turned 21.
She works and goes to school full time and is on the honor roll. She pays all her own bills, including her tuition at college, her grocery bills and her rent.
However, she is going to have to go out into the wider world soon and if she moves to another locality, I won't be able to go running to the rescue.

The weapons that she is handling are just tools, there is nothing terrible or dreadful about them as they are inanimate objects and are unable to do anything by themselves. Just as when I lay a hammer down on my workbench and I don't expect it to jump up by itself and start hammering nails, I don't expect a firearm to do much by itself. It is the human being holding it that decides what to do with it.
It is what certain people do with those tools that can be dreadful; be it a knife, an axe, an automobile or a firearm or political power.

It is my duty to see that she can handle those tools safely and with authority so she can protect herself and, someday, her own family. I would be terribly remiss as a parent if I let her go into a world where these tools are commonplace and not teach her to use them properly. Both my wife and I have tried to teach her to be open minded, self reliant, honest and hard working. Relying on the goodwill of others to protect her is nowhere in our plans.

ajayplahane, this is not specifically in response to your post. These are my feelings in general.

+1, well said there,absolutely with that response

[msbabbar]

see the kid in this photo "A Glock 19 with suppressor".
isnt it too early for him

[ckkalyan]

see the kid in this photo "A Glock 19 with suppressor".
isnt it too early for him

Hey, don't suppress him is what I say!

[Sakobav]

As long as the guns are handled properly under close adult supervision explaining the safety dos and donts its fine. Rather this is the best way to do so. There is a picture of 9 year old firing a Colt 1911 45 on board here

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[xl_target]

see the kid in this photo "A Glock 19 with suppressor".
isnt it too early for him

I think ckkalyan and ngrewal answered the question quite well.

I just wanted to add that the kid is 9 years old and is shooting a S&W handgun in 38 Special. He also shot his pump action 20 ga. for quite a while before that.

[m24]

Great pics there. Please convey our thanks to Oleg.

Total jealous seeing the pics of you and your daughter enjoying the day out with firearms.

Regards

[Hammerhead]

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Thanks all. I hope you enjoyed the photos.

Where is THE REACTION of .44 magnum

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[xl_target]

Well, It looks like she hasn't fired yet in that shot. She does however, handle recoil relatively well. Look at the photo below that with the .357 Mag Coonan auto and you will see the gun has fired and the spent cartridge is in the air above the gun.

I found another photo of her with the .44 mag just after it has been fired. You can see the recoil here.
She is left eye dominant and right handed. That is why her stance is kind of awkward. I have tried to show her other ways to shoot with the left eye but apparently she is comfortable with this.


(photo by Oleg)


She is usually happy with her shooting. Who am I to argue with that smile?



Photo by Oleg

[ckkalyan]

XL-ji - lovely!

Amazing capture / shot of the smile - your daughter is very photogenic - Congratulations!

I didn't quite catch what you meant about the picture depicting a .357 Mag Coonan Auto (spent cart in air) though...please clarify.

Unbelievable, but I was just discussing eye to hand shooting preferences a day ago with a friend. Some of the questions are answered in your post. I learn something new everyday - thanks to the invigorating conversation and topics on IFG!

[gladiatorgarg]

XL thanks for sharing those are real eye-candies waiting for more kn u post some videos of ur shooting in future???those ll b real fun...

[xl_target]

XL-ji - lovely!

Amazing capture / shot of the smile - your daughter is very photogenic - Congratulations!

I didn't quite catch what you meant about the picture depicting a .357 Mag Coonan Auto (spent cart in air) though...please clarify.

Unbelievable, but I was just discussing eye to hand shooting preferences a day ago with a friend. Some of the questions are answered in your post. I learn something new everyday - thanks to the invigorating conversation and topics on IFG!

Kalyan Sahib,
Haji was saying that he didn't see the gun recoiling in the shot with the .44 Mag. I was just saying that one of the shots in the series showed the start of the recoil effect.
Go back to the first post. The eighth photo from the top titled "The Coonan .357 Magnum auto pistol" shows the ejected .357 Mag casing in the air (between the pistol and her head). It is not really between her head and the gun, the telephoto lens shortens the perspective. As the cartridge as ejected, the gun should just be beginning to recoil.

About your comment on gun-hand preferences, I can shoot a pistol with either eye but my right hand is stronger and more dexterous. If I shoot with an isosceles stance, I can switch the sights to either eye. Come to think of it; I only do that with my SIG P225. It might have some thing to do with the sights as the P225 has Von Stavenhagen sights which have a dot on the front sight and a bar on the rear sight. You "dot the i", as it were and put the dot over your target (unlike the six o clock hold on most pistols). I shoot all my other guns conventionally; right hand - right eye.

A surprising number of women are left eye dominant but are right handed. I don't know why that is.

Gladiatorgarg,
I do have some videos. I will post them later after I have converted them for You Tube.

[boris]

She looks to be a tough lady.

[Virendra S Rathore]

Thanks for the pics ... awesome .... and I'm jealous

Regards,
Virendra

[rraju2805]

Awesome....

[hornet]

very nice of u to be sharing thats what my grandson in sydney says sharing is good when we are having our icecreams and he is already finished his smart kids there,i wish i had a daughter like u r's i have two sons both grown up mba's younger one is with me these dys in india. last year i was in sydney but there they have a very strict guncultre like n.y in usa. i could not sight any guns in oz. maybe they have them deep inside those farm places.