Good suggestion. We’ll probably try the 20ga next.
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Then look at Ruger Mini 14s
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Mini 14. A very underrated firearm.
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Will do. I need one or two more handguns first, then I’ll try it and a 20 ga.
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Good point, @JKetchem. I totally agree you both should carry because how often are you together 100% of the time when you go out? (Thinking bathroom runs, shopping when one of you runs to get the thing you forgot in isle 2, one of you sees a friend and stops to chat as the other goes to get the table at the restaurant…)
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Too early to tell how my wife feels about her carrying. I want to send her through the LTC class this summer. She’s not gun savvy even though she took a firearms class in college. When my son handed her a new handgun (unloaded) she peered down the barrel. Freaked us all out. She needs more gun safety training.
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It’s cool when you know your man can defend you. It’s amazingly cool when you know you can defend him too. 
You never know when you might be the one left standing. It could be her. It could be me.
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@Dawn I’m down with that too. @DBrogue now you’ve got a plan and a backup plan 
Ladies day out for coffee and firearms.
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Ill let her know the offer is out there (but dont hold your breaths)
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@DBrogue if it helps, my special niche is teaching people who have little to no experience and a sizable helping of fear.
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I dont think she is really scared of them it was that damn experience as a child and then finding out she needed to wear glasses for the rest of her life. she was a competitive child (thank goodness she grew out of that one of us is more than enough).
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Do you think once she shoots and realizes she’s good at it, she’ll get over that, @DBrogue? Is it just that first time shooting now that she’s able to see well that is holding her up?
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Like I said before I’ll ask her but don’t hold your breath
Thanks,
Don
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I have actually had good luck in some cases with using shooting as a first second or third date and my current long-term girlfriend loves the idea of shooting with me in that I carry even though she cannot
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I don’t know many guys who’ve done that 
Except my husband 
Our first date was at the range. He decided that day he wanted to marry me. Fortunately he waited until our 3rd (!!!) date to ask me. Took me 6 months to say yes, but he kept asking me every week, and never the same way twice.
Anyway that first-date-at-the-range is a significant part of what knocked him off his feet 
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My first date with @Kelly was a gun range. She said she wanted to shoot.
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Presently single but last couple relationships firearms were good, same with carrying…
A relationship a while back, got her, her concealed carry permit and a handgun similar to my first gun, same gun, different features (simpler) as she was used to shooting mine at the range.
This most recent relationship that is now a good friendship, the bogus charges she had against her were finally dropped and wiped clean. The celebration/anniversary rifle purchase didnt happen as we are just friends now…
Hope to one day meet Ms right and make her Mrs right.
Edit:
Met her, we started dating 7/4/2020, engaged 12/4/2020, married 6/26/2021
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My wife had never handled a gun till she got with me. She was terrified of it at first, but since we go to the gun range and she has gotten use to the feel and sound she absolutely loves it now. She conceal carries now and is a member of USCCA as well.
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That’s awesome, @Damon!
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She doesn’t mind. She even shoots with me , from time to time. She does not have her own, though I have offered. I taught handgun safety for 15 years and even offered to let her get EXACTLY what she wanted and make sure she was comfortable with it. But, she is perfectly content with them on me and in the house. To each their own.
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