I can shoot, but I'm way out of practice from back in the ancient days when I could shoot free at a police range. My vision's different, so I'd have to get used to the guns all over again, and I'd need to add more arm work to my weights. My arm strength has gone all to hell since the late unpleasantness. I've got a .22 target pistol, which is cheap to practice with. I've just never made myself go to a range alone.
Also, the guns need cleaning. Badly.
I too have a terrible weakness for knives, particularly folding ones.
I don't know if I could ever love guns the way I love knives.
That would be scary.
I
really
love knives. They're all over my apartment. In every room. And when I say I have knives in my kitchen, I don't just mean culinary knives. There's a fighting knife in there too.
I'm not as good with them as I'd like to be, but I'm okay if I'm holding one with a good hilt. I used to study some kendo work. That was fun.
Hearing about JP's groomsman's gift exacerbated my need of a new knife. I thought I could hold off until this replica comes out, and I probably should be saving my pennies, but a small something couldn't...hurt?
psst, Jilli - FLAMETHROWER
This conversation is fascinating, yet I'm somehow how stuck on BOYS and BULLWHIP.
Mrph.
Oh, don't I wish, Toddson. But when Pete, the StuntHusband, AND my parents all say
NO FIRE FOR YOU,
there isn't really much I can do to get around it. Even tho' one of those "dragonfire" flamethrowers for weeding and gardening purposes would be verrrry useful with our yard ...
Take this and put a whip in instead?
I'm still not sure why, but my brain is plenty happy trying to make shit up.
Hee, so I totally lurk in this thread, but you are all talking weaponry! So I have to pipe up to say that in April I'm going to this Becoming an Outdoorswoman thing, which is totally like camp for grownups. I can learn stuff like orienteering and still water paddling. BUT I have also signed up for basic firearm instruction and shotgun and archery! I cannot wait. I'm particularly excited because it's in the context of women, so I can learn gun stuff without having to deal with the testosterone issues. I won't know until later which classes I got into, but I will be happy with any of the many things I signed up for.
I can learn gun stuff without having to deal with the testosterone issues
That was my shotgun class. Fuckers. The guy I went with sent me back upstairs to dress less feminine, and I was treated like a glass princess at the course. As a woman in IT and the martial arts, it was hands down the most sexist treatment I've ever received. I was a brave little kitten, I was, for picking up a skeery shotgun. They recommended I try rifles instead. I guess they're more femme.
I complained enough about it (and got backup from the guy who thought I'd initially dressed too girly in the first place) that I got a free pass for another class, but why would I want to go back to that same school?
