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JD Seller

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The wife and I went over to my oldest son's later yesterday afternoon. We had an informal family get together. There are several birthdays in March and April so we unusually have one big get together then.

The oldest grand son got a new 12 gauge shot gun and a clay pigeon throwing machine. So we had to try it all out. I am terrible shooting clay pigeons anymore. My eyes and body just do not work the best for this stuff anymore. I only hit 4 of ten the first try and later did 6 for ten. Nothing special as they where easy throws.

So all the "males" where sharing stories/lies (lol) when we got invaded by the women folk. We teased each other while some of the guys still where shooting. Then I heard the words every husband hates to hear!!! "Honey hold my purse" What the heck??? Well I have posted about how my wife is a good shot with a shot gun. Her Father was an expert and taught her an she shot a lot when she was younger. She told the grand son she was going to show him how to shoot clay pigeons. HE of coarse, laughed at that. He was sunk before the first shot as he had made her mad. LOL Well they set it up and threw ten pigeons. She hit 9 for 10. LOL Then she laid into him for setting it "easy" LOL She was kind of stirred up!!! LOL So he set it up to randomly throw and then even threw one by hand right with the last machine thrown one so she had two in the air at once. She hit 10 for 10 that time. LOL LOL!!! So she then spent about an hour showing him and the others some "tricks" on shooting a shot gun better. My oldest Grand son came over to me during this and told me he was glad she was not "REAL" mad at him. LOL I told him to NEVER make a woman that can shoot like she does MAD!!!!

So how should I feel??? First my wife left me holding her purse for all of this!!!! LOL Then she told me I shoot like a girl. ( She like to rub it in until we shot with a pistol and I win. I did NOT point that out at this time. Safer as the shot gun is still too handy. LOL) Second remember this woman is not in the best health now and had real trouble with a broken hip just a few years ago. She had a blast!!! I bet the Kids will talk about Mamma for a while now. One last detail: The shot gun was a 12 gauge pump.

So I guess I am proud to have married a TRUE Redneck woman!!!!!

PS Even IF I end up holding her purse. LOL

I also am helping her ice her shoulder this morning too. LOL
 
Sounds like a great day:). Nobody is great at everything, my wife is a better shot with a 22. But the most important thing is that some great memories were made:)
 
I use to be an NRA rifle and shotgun instructor. When I was taking the class for the shotgun certification there was a woman who when we went out to shot could not hit anything. I noticed that she was not at ease. The instructor went over to her and asked what hand she wrote with and she said left so he asked her why she was shooting right handed. She told him my husband said I had to as that is the way he shot. The instructer told her to try shooting left handed and she hit every bird after that. Her next words were WAIT UNTIL I GET HOME. I sure glad I wasn't her husband
 
We see that a lot in archery training, the parents will buy the kid a right or left handed bow before checking what eye is dominant. We test them first thing and get them started correctly, they shoot much better. Most people think that the eye dominance matches the hand, but it is not always the case, my daughter is right hand and left eye dominant, she shoots much better left handed.
 
Working for a neighbor once as a kid i remember him teasing the wife about how she raked hay she turned around and said cook your own dinner! Things i learned that day one don't tease a women 2nd not everyone has the same skills as other people and lastly the local bar had an excellent dinner
 
My cousins wanted us to come over to shoot clay pigeons as they just got a hand thrower (big deal back then). One of my cousins kept shooting a 12 ga. while I used my 20 ga. He shot more times than anyone else; after we stopped shooting he took off his shirt - - his shoulder looked like ground hamburger! He was really, really sore for several days after that. First, he wasn't muscular like we were, and that shotgun did not fit his shoulder to begin with.

Two of my brothers are gun enthusiasts and hunters. They wanted to shoot some clays out on the farm. I hadn't shot anything for a few years, but I outshot them by a good margin so the session ended pretty fast. Of course, I always was a better shot than they were, especially with a rifle.
 
I've seen my wife powder clay pigeons with a single shot .410.

First time her dad saw her do it, I thought he was going to step on his lower lip.

BTW, I tend to behave myself.
 
yeah but, think about how it made her feel, given the things she's been dealing with, she had to be floating on air so to speak! Sounds like a great time was had by all!
 
Well, I hope the purse matched your footwear because that is one fashion faux pas you wouldn't want to make! LOL!
 
Boy does this remind me exactly of an Andy Griffith rerun I saw lately. His girlfriend went with him shooting pigeons (or some such birds). Andy was a terrible shot, missed them all, girlfriend just watched and smiled. Later there was a clay pigeon shooting contest, girlfriend got insulted by Barney, she went there and cleaned house so to speak. She was a trained marks-"man". Andy and Barney stood there with their mouths open.
 
JD,

Sounds like a great outing with the family. Other than down hill skiing, shooting clays and skeet is one of the most addictive things that I have ever done. I have always liked shooting a shotgun but I never liked killing anything. I had an instructor tell me one time that if you expect to ever be good at this sport plan on shooting the price of a new pick-up truck out the barrel of that shotgun. As I age I have noticed that my eyesight and reflexes are not near what they were at one time but that experience does come into play and sometimes levels up the playing field. By the way, I have parts of that pick-up scattered all over the country.
 
I wouldn't want her to get mad at me either. LOL My son let his city raised wife shoot the 12 gauge but he forgot to tell her to hold it tight against her shoulder. The response after the shot reminded me of words to a certain country song. Not an exact quote "How can such dirty words come from such a pretty face".
 
I found it best that no matter how bad my wife may be at something I always tell her she's doing a good job, Happy wife Happy life ! It also reminds me of a time we went cloths shopping for her, There I stood holding her purse and god knows what else I was holding when a young man and his new wife came in and left him in the same condition as me and he was not happy about it and began to tell me how terrible this was to him and he went on and on about it, 15 min later he looks at me and ask why I was not upset about this? Simple I said , This makes up for all the times I dragged her someplace she didn't want to be. And in the end it all evens out. I said to him If you want to have a happy marriage and wife you might as well get used to it and make the best of it or there might be heck to pay when you get home ! It all give and take so you might as well get it in your head now you cant win and get used to holding onto her purse when she asks you to. Bandit
 
Great story. I was dating a girl from Texas and took her home to meet the parents and extended family on Thanksgiving day. After she helped all the aunts prepare a turkey feast and was going to help the aunts do the dishes but they told her to spend some time with me. The men would always go outside on the farm and shoot clays while the women cleaned up dishes and then they would play poker. During the shooting one of my uncles challenged my girl friend to shoot some clays with my 870 12 gauge. Well, she strapped on the shell pouch, grabbed the 870 and put on a clinic on busting clays leaving my uncles speechless. After that, she was included in the men's inner circle from that day on....by the way...she got a Browning 20 gauge from me for Christmas. She then knew I was going to ask her to marry me. Best decision I've ever made.
 
my ex, years ago, was watching some of my buds playing with a 38 S&W revolver. One asked smirking if she would like a try. He threw a can about 12 feet away and handed her the gun. She hit it bouncing it in the air. As soon as it landed she hit again. And again on the next bounce. She didn't press her luck any farther, handing back the piece. Never underesitmate the fair gender.
 
Especially with her health issues I'm surprised she did it ?

Now go get her a .410 and reloader that will do the 2 1/2" shells. Very easy on the shoulder and WAY cheaper to shoot these as reloads as they hardly take any powder and shot but will bust a clay target just the same !
 
JD
About 3 years years ago I discovered sporting clays. Worst thing I could have possibly done. A shoot every weekend this time of year and usually shoot in the high 70's to the low 80's best score ever was a 85 out of 100. I have been humbled by women and a 19 year old young man that makes it look so easy it's unbelievable. At a charity shoot a few months ago I watched a team of ladies whip the snot out of bunch of all male teams including the the one I was on. The youngest on the team was 18 and the oldest was her grandmother at 68. Never under estimate a woman's shooting ability with a shotgun or a pistol. I got to be friends with the 19 year old young man who works at the range where I shoot and sometimes he would shoot my shot gun a few rounds if things were slow that day. I always was amazed at his ability to hit a target so much quicker than I could and he has helped me improve my shooting quiet a bit. This morning I found out he was a national champion a few years ago in the youth division. So no wounder he is good!
 
If my wife did half the shooting over the years I have, she would give me a shellacking every time we went out. If she is really mad at me, I sleep with one eye open! My wife is the opposite of yours. She's not much with a shotgun, but don't challenge her to a pistol match. Lol! She's got some playing cards around here that she cut just as clean with a .22 pistol as you could with a knife.
 
When I took hunters safety last year all the kids there thought it was funny cuz I've lived out in the middle of nowhere and hunted all my life and couldn't hit any of 5 clay pigeons. I had never shot at them in my life before because I don't bird hunt. I've got a friend who kinda likes to brag on how good he is at everything. I told him I wanted to learn to shoot clay pigeons so he got out his 870 and set up the thrower and told me to put the bead just below the clay. I did and hit almost everyone. Then he started shooting 2 at a time and I hit them all too. I hit more then he did. He was kinda shocked and said hew was just rusty was all. I was full of beginners luck.
 
Yeah, one of the first things I did in my hunter ed classes was teach every one how to determine their master eye. 9 times out of 10 when someone is having a hard time hitting anything, they are trying to shoot right handed with a left master eye.
 
Unfortunately, clay target shooting is just like golf. Rarely does one get better with age.
The teenage sons of the guys in my shooting club can show me up any day. But I keep shooting,
however, I don't seem to be able to keep score as well as I used to either.

My wife used to play a lot of tennis. The few times she has shot skeet or trap she has had very good
novice scores, I think due to her hand-eye coordination from tennis.
 
My wife taught me how to shoot a shotgun and a handgun. She is an amazing shot with either, but I can still out shoot her with a rifle. Either open sights or scoped. She just has never shot one much, and her glasses REALLY mess with her.
 
no nothing about guns or hunting but do know the explosive targets they called them will set the farm a fire. burned off around ten acres of crp ground before it got put out. made for cheap entertainment and help crp anyway only wish they had been farther south so it woulb have burned the whole 200 acres off oh well.
 
Sounds like you have those short itchy hairs in your under ware from a recent hair cut. Actually why did you not start your own post?
 
You have two options- practice and try to win back your pride or accept defeat and take your lumps. In dealing with a woman you would probably be better off to do the latter, after a while she will forget about it, at that point find something you are better then pour it on!!!!!
 
JD. I think you should just swallow your pride and let her have the shotgun on her side of the bed from now on. Because it sounds like she would able to take a intruder out better than you would LOL. Just kidding. I think its awesome a Lady can shoot that well. What should make you proud, your bride just schooled all the men folks and the grandkids. Now thats pretty dang awesome. I'm sure you can operate a tractor better than her LOL
 
Reminds me of the Beech Boys song, Little Old Lady From Pasadena, Go granny, Go granny, Go granny, Go.
 
Just get her a new purse that you won't mind holding, like this one :) I would love to have a family get together like this where everyone could try to get along without a couple flipping out about there being guns there and something could happen.
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I ran into that while qualifying for deployment at Hickam AFB.The girl next to me couldn't hit a bull in the a&& with a bass fiddle.I determined that she was left eyed and politely asked the two SSgt instructers running the class to please get off their butts and do their jobs.I was at that time a nice calm MSgt. Love the M-16
 
(quoted from post at 15:32:45 04/10/16) Now tell me what your blurb has to do with JD Sellers story? Post your own story not on another's.
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Take your meds and remember that this is a coffee shop
 


I don't think my wife ever shot a shot gun, unless maybe before I met her. She can shoot her revolver though. There are days she can out shoot me with it, and we both shoot 357's.
 
That's why they call guns the great equalizer. Only sports where men and women can compete equally are shooting sports.
 
Well JD, women do have better hand/eye coordination than men.

The big question now is, are you still holding the purse?

LOL!
Just a tease, no harm meant!

Scott
 
I finally talked my sister into trying my 22 Henry one day. Once I noticed her holding her head funny I had her shoot left handed. Right handed and left eyed.

I'll just say I don't want to be down range when she's having a bad day.

I never could hit much with a scattergun
 
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