[spqrzilla9]

What's bizarre is how this writer, while writing an overall positive piece about shooting, shows overwhelming ignorance of the gun laws of her own country - Canada. Guns are not "monitored" and bullets are not "rationed" in Canada. And Canada has its own national association equivalent of the NRA despite the writer's ignorance.

[Khepera]

Range time and the cost of bullets would put my family in the poor house. I'm lucky to get to shoot at all. 9-12 dollars a box of ammo (50 rounds) and 6-10 dollars for 1/2 hour of range time. 50 rounds in 30 minutes is no problem to do. Adds up fast.

[billorites]

Weapon No. 3 is the slickest, nastiest of them all: a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight.

My father's .243 Featherweight is slick, sweet, but certainly not nasty.

Unless you're a woodchuck.

[Billthedrill]

Social critics and other armchair observers have made much of the gun's mimicry of the mechanics of male genitalia. Yet how to explain how female shooters, too, experience pleasure in the sense of release when the trigger is pulled?

Uh...maybe because the entire idea is a total crock?

I had an instructor not too long ago who had a real fast way of dealing with this little bit of derogatory two-bit pseudopsychology, with a curt "yes, I'm into guns because my penis is too small."

Her name was Cathy.