Posted on 06/19/2015 7:52:22 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Kalley Johnson was hunting with her father by age 4. She had a bow and arrow in hand two years later. She once shot a zebra on a productive big-game trip to Namibia.
Who knew those skills would earn her varsity letters?
“Sometimes if I tell a random person I’m on the trapshooting team, they kind of look at me funny like, ‘You’re a girl. You can do that?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, we do it all the time,'” said Johnson, a just-graduated senior at Delano High School. “But it’s definitely getting better. The first year it started, there were only three girls on the team. Now we’re at about 15 or 20. So it’s getting more common, I guess, for girls to shoot.”
For boys, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at minnesota.cbslocal.com ...
Read the entire article. Warm your heart.
A high school a few miles from me has a pistol shooting team. No casualties so far.
Hopefully, something like that will be next in MN.
Not holding my breath, however.
EGADS, children with guns, Oh the HUGE MANATEE!
C’mon.. read it.
Even for the AP, it’s a great read.
OK, I read it, it is nice that we still raise kids with the proper respect for firearms, and they can be competitive and have fun too.
My grandson shoots Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays. He won the state 4-H when he was 17 and really fell in love with the sport, he’s just a few wins away from becoming a Master Shooter at 19.
The coach at the University of Arizona told him he was on his team but it is just too expensive to send him out of state. All the old guys love him.
My oldest daughter is 24 and shoots way above average. The “old guys” love that she is ambidextrous and pops clays right or left. The first time she was shooting my 12 gauge and her shoulder started getting a little sore, she just changed to the other and even I was shocked.
It is one of the great things about this state. I know our local chapter is run by very right-wing, gun-rights people, and there are a LOT of girls in it.
The hot new thing in Indiana is ultimate frisbee. 30 schools have teams. There is a pro team. And lotsa clubs that play on weekends. My son & grandsons travel to Indy to play. It’s kinda like football with a frisbee.
No guns, but injuries occur.
First, let me say that this is a great idea & almost unexpected in these times, teaching one of the many shooting sports to high school students in a supervised & safe climate.
But I can’t help picturing the intro to that sight-gag movie “Top Secret!” which had the Beach Boys or someone singing “Skeet Surfing”, featuring surfboards & shotguns. It was an antigun message typical for Hollywood but still kind of funny.
Teach young people the safe & proper way to handle firearms and they begin to stop believing all the shoot-em-up drivel that’s shown on the wide screen.
Might it be possible to combine ultimate frisbee with some sort of clay-target-syle shooting, maybe defend the goals with shotguns? That could be worth going to see.
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