In my opinion (which, admittedly, doesn’t count for a lot), too much is too much when mental or physical fatigue begin resulting in the development of bad habits. I rarely get to that point with firearms (it can happen, though), but the bad habits certainly start creeping in when I take things too far while shooting one of my recurve bows. I’ve learned that I must stop flinging arrows before I reach the point of fatigue. If not, I will inadvertently pick up bad form that takes several shooting sessions to overcome. It’s like I revert to novice level, even with years of experience, and it takes effort to get back to where I was. I’ve lost things as basic as my anchor point by shooting a recurve into fatigue and really struggled to find the proper anchor point again.
In my humble opinion. Never. If you had a good time it was just right. I took my wife a few weeks ago and we shot pistols, shotgun, several rifles and about 1,000 rounds of ammo. Once a year I take my firearms to a Gunsmith for maintenance a few at a time. Rinsed and repeated again. Had just as much fun. Loved spending time with my favorite therapist (AKA my FNX-Tactical .45). I also really love watching my wife shoot. Everyone who knows her are always so shocked that
A) She married me 35 years ago, intentionally even…
B) That she enjoys going to the range and is a decent shot.
C) Did I mention how shocked everyone is about her marrying me 35 years ago and we are still going strong. I definitely married up.
Bottom line I believe that any range time is time well spent plus you got to bond with your son
C’mon. Take a deagle.
I don’t personally own one! Or I would have it on my list! 
The ranges I go
Don’t care how many weapons I bring. (I usually bring between 3-5 to shoot). BTW my wife is pretty good shot in her own right.
As long as you’re doing it safely, it shouldn’t be an issue.
Our only cares about ammo, No Green Tips allowed.
Ours are the same, it’s racist!
@Karacal Damnit, I thought you were someone else…
I said the same thing! Ish…
I don’t see a problem here. Father son time bonding further. There’s always times you can concentrate on a certain caliber/platform. Nothing wrong with shaking the dust off of them and then getting to refamiliarize with them taking them down and cleaning. You had a great day!
If she has never shot a gun before, it might be best not to overwhelm her with so many guns. I usually take newbies with one gun (the S&W15/22) because it’s one of the easiest to shoot and least intimidating. If you like, consider the Single Six as well. Everyone can identify with a “cowboy gun” and being a single action, it’s one of the safer guns for a new shooter to learn on. If she has a good time and shows an interest in going again, then break out as many guns as you like.
Greetings & welcome to the community, Robert!
I wouldn’t call “ shaking the dust out of them to much” now back when my son was a youngster and my Dodge Dakota had rifles level with the top of the bed and the front with us was usually 15 or so handguns and back of the seat so full with ammo now that was to muck, took three days to clean the dang things. Couldn’t and wouldn’t do it again.
But as long as y’all had fun that makes it all worthwhile.
I might as well throw in my two cents worth here. While I don’t see a problem with bringing multiple guns to the range as long as you’re safe, I don’t think it’s any of the RSO’s business.
Having said that, being absolute when it comes to training with my concealed carry weapon, I don’t really believe in having more training on a rotation of guns that is unless they all have the same manual of arms, grip and a very similar trigger as far as pull and reset.
Under a stressful situation you will be relying on muscle memory to operate your weapon and you must be able to do so in a subconscious manner. Your mind will be cluttered with many other thoughts. Such as where is my family? Can I escape out the back door? Do I have to shoot? Am I capable of making the shot? Are there innocent souls in the background. ECT. You notice those are all questions and your mind will be working very hard to sort through them not leaving you much mental capacity to think about which gun you brought and how it operates. Such as, does this one have a safety or no safety? (Actually happened in a training class I participated in. The gentleman switched guns halfway through the class and failed to move his safety when performing a drill. That act alone could’ve caused him his life in an actual scenario) . Gun fights can be won or lost in tenths of seconds.
Also what have you actually taken in the way of actual self-defense training? A kinetic combat handgun course or taken a course where you actually work in or around vehicles? It would seem to make a lot of sense to me when we spend so much time in and around our cars. Have you been taught to pie a corner? what about a proper grip or draw stroke? When you do this, the reason for mastering a single weapon becomes very obvious.
Once you’ve taking the training, practice regularly because skills are perishable and doing so with the same reliable firearm every time makes you a much more capable defender.
Welcome to the community!
I started my kids with Single Action 22LR then swapped cylinders to 22WMR. Same gun, a little bump in caliber.
Then, finished the range session with 9mm semiauto pistol.
Two handguns but not too overwhelming. L
Just for fun:
Scenario #1:
Thug steps out from behind the pickup parked next to your car, you go through the thought process you mentioned. You’ve trained to step to cover while drawing and acquiring a target, done it thousands of times on ranges and in your mind…
Scenario #2:
Just got to the top of the ridge, suns coming up over your back, the fog is burning off. You hear a commotion across the draw, you get out your spotting scope and there he is Boone and Crockett sized Buck hovering over his heard. You unshoulder your 270, lean it between the sticks on the tree next to you. Slowly move to the target, wait until he turns, done it a thousand times on the range and in your mind…
Kinda leans towards a variety of training scenarios, trained to the point of muscle memory for sure but does #1 get in the way of #2?
Not at all.
I have trained in hand to hand and when anyone tries to punk me muscle memory makes them regret that!
However, I also trained and practiced “other” techniques that are not so, abrupt… if you get my drift.
If anything should effect the other in shooting it should be the smooth concise trigger pull of hunting while focusing on your target, during the high stress situation of self defense!