Posted on 08/12/2023 4:47:22 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
Sharpshooter Annie Oakley, born On August 13, 1860, Was A Very Tough Woman.
In this century, Oakley, for me, is a beacon of deeply American and female toughness and freedom.
She said: "God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house."
"I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies."
"Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life."
"After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born."
God Bless Freedom
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I don’t know. It is standard procedure in practical shooting to have some weak hand targets thrown in, personally, I’m an A trapshooter with a shotgun, won a bunch of handgun speed events, and capable of competing in PRS events with a rifle as I regularly shoot at 800 plus yards.
I’m definitely a pistol shooter by preference however. I think any shooter in the middle of a PRS match, a B-C trapshooter or someone way short of Miculek would clean her clockin a bad way. The Grand American trapshoot just ended and it took a thousand targets to get a winner in a 200 target competition. The winner broke 1000 straight.
You don't praise her for her accomplishments which inspired others, you denigrate her.
A wet, non pedigree dog? Heinz 57/mixed breed?
I know that. My dad was a Marine pilot, my uncle a helicopter pilot in the ‘Nam; my two brothers served in Iraq and my mom is a military brat. I’m at the range at least once a week with a family day out.
Okay - works for me. I believe it was brought up by some woman’s group a while back.
Yeah I took my wife to the range. Took some coxing. I don’t get to shoot much so I’m definitely below average, but she was shooting at my level immediately. Then I realized her nursing background gave her very steady hands. Nobody wants me giving an IV.
As with chess and singing, I seem to be a better teacher than a performer. But then my dad had a stroke when I was 6 and what little I know I was self taught completely...
I’ve taught several women to shoot and only was problematic, and that was mostly because she shouted her ex’s name at the target before emptying all 6 shots into it (or, rather in proximity to it) way too fast and loud enough to startle the dude with hearing protecting on the next lane. The sister I never wanted, think a Hispanic Lucille Ball who watched ‘Natural Born Killers’ too many times
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