Building a country girl

i really dont understand whats the benefit of shooting...

riding horse or fishing also count building a country girl.. dont they?

Looks like a nice gap I mean group. Perhaps she can now graduate from those old antiques to a nice glock with a factor 33 round mag. Or at least move her up to a p89 ruger. Some +P rounds if you think it's too weak.

Never again will I hold any guns!

COgreece, here we believe a woman should know how to protect herself without needing some guy to do it for her. Horseback riding and fishing are nice fun activities, But being a 'country girl' also means being quite capable of handling the serious things all by yourself, regardless of whether it is changing a flat tire on a cold rainy night by the light of a flashlight, fixing a leaky water faucet, or terminating a snake.

Luckyman, Although I have a dozen or so semis, and have carried a Glock several times in one job or another, I am not that enamored of them. If being in China you actually have one and love it, power to you. I will say, comic books to the contrary, they aren't all that great, least of all for every day carry. Sure many agencies issue one and order their people to carry that, but it is because Glock sells them to the agencies at a cheap price, not because it is the weapon the individuals would select.

In any case I suspect she will ultimately settle on a Ruger LCR as her carry pistol. Small but potent revolvers have many advantages over the semi-autos when you speak in terms of something that can be loaded, carried or stored every day and still be instantly ready 10 or 20 years later. The lightweight plastic of the LCR frame gives the best of both worlds. The low maintenance and utter reliability of a revolver and the light weight of plastic. Available with laser sights and in calibers from .22 LR through .357 magnum.



As she practices, I expect her groups to tighten and i may move her back to 25 yards in a few weeks.

I like the Glocks because of their light weight, simple design, double stacked high capacity factory mags available, mass produced and widely available ammo, and has one of the best reliability records in all the comic books I've read. If a gun jams I won't read about it.

Besides always having a long script to explain certain discussions,I think another blog should be formed to accommodate such long and boring explanations.Not all of us want to read centuries of history.As for GUNS I Detest the use of arms and ammunition in any shape or form.I do believe that any person that so proudly and with pomp and arrogance will flaunt these killing tools,do so with the intention of not scaring a person off but killing them in cold blooded gratification for their egos. You were given hands to ward off attempted ill intentioned enemy. There would never be so much loss of innocent lives in war torn countries if the use of these killing machines are your only way of solving a problem.If you so badly want to prove that you are a man,single and bored with life,do some community work and get involved with the youth,by teaching them life skills

I don't see the logic just because someone holds a gun makes them a Country Girl.


I know of women who live in the city and holds a gun.

I'm suprised to hear people complain about guns while enjoying the benifits guns won them. Think people think.

I'm not surprised. Disappointed is more like it.

Luckyman - Try not to blindly worship manufacturer hype. See


Anything can. Glocks do too.

Ccincy - Absolutely correct. The blog title was more motivated by the tractor in the background than anything else. However, living here in a rural area, where gravel roads and cows are routine scenery most of the women from around here I have met who own guns and can both cook and shoot. I agree a few big city girls can do so, but their opportunities to learn the skill are much less due to silly laws that bar them from the second, and which the non-law abiding ignore. Yes, I have met city women who can shoot, or but it's definitely not most of them. Indeed usually the city girls I have met who can shoot or own a pistol, also have or do carry badges, or had a family member who did and taught them, and that is a small minority of the total population. In fact most of the big city women I know have trouble with things requiring a socket wrench or a volt meter. Totally the opposite of the country girls around here.



Ken I was raised in the country and was exposed to shot guns all of my childhood into adulthood cause my parents had them cause they used to hunt in order to feed 6 children.I only became a big city woman cause I had to attend college and hold down a job to support myself.

All of my older brothers and sisters learned how to shoot a gun too.

My older sisters and I also learned how to use a socket wrench,change oil in a vehicle,pump our own gas,drive a nail,use a drill and more cause we wanted to learn.

I stated facts not hype. I own Glocks.

You ever watch that guy hicks something or another, on youtube? Pick your source, Glocks are one of the most reliable semi auto hand guns available. I've seen way too many other handguns jam. If I can't fire a thousand rounds through a gun without cleaning it or a jam I have no use for it. Same thing with a rifle.

MicLee - You touch on a sore point of mine. Those compiling those stats often tweak them to exclude the more dangerous countries with the excuse, oh those aren't really civilized countries, or they are having a civil war, so we can't count them anymore. Compile a true list and include the countries they exclude and the US plummets way down on the list. :)

Also it can be argued that because America has so many ethnic groups always arriving and struggling for their place on the ladder, America has been in a quiet but constant state of not yet resolved urban civil war for many decades and therefore it should also be totally left off their lists. They don't like that.

just had a little peep in to cs and saw you answer to me now I see what Obama is up against, the gun club lobby.
Oh well my nature loving friend we will have to agree to disagree on this one

Ken I agree with you it is important to know how to shoot a gun.
Lets stop and think about this logically for the nay sayers.
America was founded by people that knew how to shoot a gun.
We fought for freedom to live as we wanted ( need to again soon ).
If you are not prepared to fight for freedom you do not have the right to complain when your's is gone.
All through history the people that would not stand up and defend themselves lost their way of life badly and in some cases even though they fought they lost ie. Native Americans and such.
Why? FIRE POWER!
They did not have what was needed to fight properly.
In spec force if you do not have a weapon you make or take a weapon.
Make in survival take in war.
So yeah knowing how to defend and feed is important knowing how to use the weapon to do so is just as important!

Sorry shakenheart that is the way it WAS!!!!! I thought we as humans have moved forward mmm jusr past bow and arrow stage in USA then

Redex - ? Who told you it is a 'was' thing?

Luckyman - This is for you. Everyone else may disregard.

Ken, watching that youtube made it worth finding the proxy.

The Glock was not a love at first sight for me. It doesn't feel like an extention of my hand. It was a practical decision I made. If I was forced from my home what few things would I choose and why.

I have a strict no round in the chamber policy but of course that could change if the threat level changed. Police don't have that option but the finger they have control over.

I hope you got some of that crazy FEMA money for your troubles.

Oh yeah, $600 a day for 4 weeks. Definitely worth going. T'was like a combination of Day of the Triffilds and Walking Dead. A great educational post apocalypse vacation. I observed to the max how little anyone can be prepared for something like that.

I had hoped you liked the video. I like to burst a gut when he confessed to keeping a 1911 in his truck.

Development of the country girl continues. She has stashed away her 1911 in favor of a Glock 19.

Although previously familair with the AR 15 / M4 series of rifles yesterday in my yard I introduced her to Red Dot sights and steel targets which both move and clang when you hit them.



She finds a red dot zeroed in for 32 yards to be a vast improvement over the old fashioned 20th century peep sights and looks forward to building her own AR next week. She isn't sure yet if she will use a conventional M4 upper or go with an ultra light pencil barrel like the guys did on Inrange (a YouTube channel) with their 'What would Stoner do?' project.

I am trying to get her to dance school to learn a few popular dances.

I was wrong about her choice of carry gun. I had been years ago sure she would go Ruger. Nope. She selected a CZ75 instead. It is really hard to argue with that choice. :)

Ken

that's nice, a big gun too

hey PPK/S has been reintroduced, still no date for its sale


I had one from 1968, regretting it I sold it.


I wish I had a shooting range at home

Well she went 9mm Parabellum for her carry/pillow pistol.

PPK/S is only up to .380. My personal thought is for a smaller package why not go Radom P64 in 9mm Makarov? Virtually a PPK clone, but in a beefier caliber. Classic Firearms has a batch of them at a still decent price. I bought 2 before the price change last spring, 1969 and 1974 date stamps. I changed the spring packs to something more doable and fitted one with a fiber optic shotgun bead as a front sight and put on a custom wood grip to replace the communist plastic grips and added an extended (1/4") magazine latch. It's not a bad pocket piece now although a Glock 19 or 43 runs rings around it.

Oohh.. you can always come to Ken's home shooting range.

Hi Ken..
Which one do you think is better for concentration practice, shooting or archery?