race4beer wrote:Wow, just WOW..Steve133 wrote:A buddy of mine used to shoot at a range where a guy pulled the "impress the girlfriend by showing off how awesome and manly your gun is" trick by loading up all the chambers in a .44 magnum revolver (I think it was a Smith model 29 - it was double-action, whatever it was), handing it to her, and, figuring that she'd wind up like the girl in Desert Eagle video, stood behind her to coolly catch her when the recoil knocked her back.
It... didn't end well.
She did lose control of the weapon, but as the recoil drove it up over her head, she accidentally pulled the trigger again - I'll leave you to guess what happened to the top of the boyfriend's head after that.
Most of these yahoos I can just ignore, but some are downright dangerous.
My personal rule is if someone (anyone for that matter) is shooting one of my guns for the first time - I load 1 round in it only, and will only load 1 round at a time until they are comfortable and I am sure that nobody is going to "catch" a followup shot from the recoil.
especially if they are a new shooter