My wife is a complete novice when it came to firearms. I have been teaching her the fundamentals of shooting. How to operate a firearm safely, how to shoulder a rifle, use the sights, etc… This is her first time ever doing a “Drill”. It wasn’t fast paced, super hard, or crazy. It simply had a couple of things in it. Using cover, changing a magazine, aiming at different targets at different distances, and lastly having fun.
I have to say she did great and is really excited and she wants to start really getting into it. She even wants to join a female shooting club and bring out her female co-workers and introduce them to shooting. I’m really proud of her. She has been a great student and learns very well. Next week we’ll start on pistol and she’ll do the same course of fire as in these videos with it. But right now she needs to learn the basics of pistol handling and safety. So off the the range with another 1,000 rounds of .22LR and a Ruger .22/45 Lite.
That is great you guys can do this together, and she enjoys it. Great!
Fantastic that you’ve been able to get her in to the sport. The one thing that makes the costs and time easiest to justify is having you significant other understand just what it is you do and how much fun it is. A few years ago I bought my fiancé her first rifle (Henry’s 22) and now she’s at the point where she’s asking about coming out to run rifle stages with me.
Added bonus, I get to build another rifle (she’s got to have her own, right?) if she wants to go out more.
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That’s terrific!
And the fact that you are able to “instruct” your wife while she has a firearm in her hands and live to tell the tale is amazing in its own right. 
Alas, I do not possess your courage and have left my wife’s firearms instruction to professionals. And if we’re in the same class, separate relays.
Good on you for getting her involved!! Make damn sure she learns to take her finger not only off of the trigger but out of the trigger guard when moving or not looking at the target. I am with montanadave… You are to be commended for trying to teach a woman anything!!! GH
Thanks guys. She is still learning and there are issues at hand but I am really trying to be supportive and not intmidating. She never handled firearms before she met me. She came from Puerto Rico and guns there are highly restricted like NYC. Yet somehow she marries a Cuban. Talk about different worlds. I love her and she is great.
She is still eager to learn and she isn’t afraid. She also is wanting to get her CCW which is even better. Soon enough she’ll have her own GLOCK and an AR-15. Which I already built her one.
OP that is AWESOME… Good job man. Keep her shooting.
I purchased a MP-22 last year and my GF has run around 3k rds through it. She now has her CCW and rocks a slicked up S&W 640. Keeps a Surefire LX2 next to the bed and keeps a 870 handy for that just in case moment.
Fun is had by all when we go shooting.
Keep up the good work and take small steps. In the end you will have a serious shooter who can back you up if needed.
Op, great shooting!
My 14 year old daughter has also taken to my “tactical” 22. She thinks my M&P 15-22 is hers now! LOL
It is fun to have everyone in the family out for a day of shooting.
BTW, I also have a Ruger 22-45 and my wife and daughter both love shooting that pistol. It is a great trainer.
-brickboy240
As a former resident of Ybor city, it is very nice to see someone have a Jose Marti quote in his signature and a wife who can run stages with her rifle. 
¡Cuba libre!
Thanks
The pink blouse and matching shoes is a nice touch. What range is that?
You have discovered the secret that everyone should know but very few understand. Sadly most are too busy trying to make sure their wives/gf/daughters stand exactly like the Navy SEALs do in their latest issue of SWAT or are handing them .44 magnum revolvers so they can put it on youtube.
One of the reasons I never really got into hunting was my father handed me a 10 lb. 410/22 OU that I had no business carrying because I could not safely manage the weight when I was a little kid. Didn’t exactly make hunting “fun” because I really couldn’t hit a damn thing and I was constantly getting called out for unsafe handling.
He was doing almost the same thing later with my half sister trying to teach her how to shoot skeet with a shotgun that was taller than she was. I pointed it out and we got her a Ruger Red Label that should could manage and she had a much better time of it. Sadly she never really got into it.