I told this story before but well worth me sharing it again.
Many moons ago the family was at the cabin over 4th of july weekend. My brother and our wives were sitting on the porch looking south over a nice meadow just below our cabin. At the farthest reached of the meadow my brother had placed some gongs awhile back.
Needing some 4th of July noise my brother went into to the cabin to retrieve his AR and we started plinking at the gongs. When my brother turned to MrsMac and asked her if she wanted to try her hand at throwing lead down range.
MrsMac was not interested but after much coaching she said she would shoot the rifle ONCE. Well +200 shots later I said, "Enough! If you are going to shoot anymore you have to buy your own ammo."
Later that night as we were laying in bed talking about the next days activities I asked MrsMac why did she like her target practice earlier in the day. "Heck you haven't shot a long gun with me in years."
She told me that I always made her shoot rifles that hurt her shoulder. "That AR didn't kick at all....I could have shot it all day long" she went on.
The next day I went to gunbroker.com and bought her her own AR.
Bummer that she lost it in Hurricane Sandy with ALL the rest of our long guns. Still have my flint lock smoke poles though