This will be brief. I see it all the time and it makes me sad most of the time. If you show up for a new shooter class (or as Tam says the "take the price tag off the gun skool") with a brand new heater, well this. You are doing it wrong. This is analogous to buying a car and THEN taking drivers ed class.
Just saying. I can get you where you need to be, but most of you found out you made an expensive mistake. If you like my handguns that are part of the live fire exercise more than yours, well.... It's not my fault.
I've seen the same thing.
ReplyDeleteWhen two of my friends decided they wanted to buy defense handguns, I took the to the range with my wife's TRR-8 revolver in 357, my Kimber Custom TLE-II, and my Sig P226 in 40 S&W.
We also rented an XD, a Glock, and another S&W semi.
They both had their hearts and minds set on Glocks, but after spending an afternoon shooting them all, one of them bought a Sig, and the other bought an XD.
And they thanked me profusely for helping them avoid a $900 mistake!
Indeed!
Delete"If you don't have a gun for my course, please don't run out and buy one. Try ours, we have a large variety available, or if we don't have what you want, then go and rent one to try first... then go buy one... I educate, you decide!" ~Dann
ReplyDeleteIt's like making a decision to buy a new car when all you did was sit in it for a minute in the dealer's show room... just because you held it for minute at the gun counter, don't use that experience to make your final decision...
Wait, I'm repeating myself again... ugh!
Dann in Ohio
I have no control before hand. I wish I did Dann!
DeleteIt's a problem, definitely. Part of issue is that folks read about Gun A and decide that it is The One. Another part is finding a place where you can try-n-buy. At least when they take the class, they can find something they might like better and might actually suit them.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is part of the problem as well as the guy or lady on the other side of the counter.
DeleteOuch... Agree with drjim, I always try to get folks to try before they buy...
ReplyDeleteYep!
DeleteThere are so many variances in feel and handling, I can't imagine just picking one out cuz it's "purty" and then firing it for the first time.
ReplyDeleteOh, its done with reckless abandon here.
DeleteIt's done that way out here, too!
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