Out here, girls just wanna have guns

Star-Ledger ^ | 7/20/03 | JONATHAN CHENG

[WorkingClassFilth]

The NRA identified this trend years ago and have been heavily engaged in trying to expand the numbers of women in the shooting sports for several years now. I would hope that reversals in gun restrictions in several states and an increasingly friendly atmosphere for gun-ownership would induce just this kind of thing.

In fact, I'd hope to see promotional events on the order of bar specials or community festivals. Too often gun ranges are enclaves for males to get away and grouse about the world 'out there.' Changing the clientele requires welcoming women, minorities, Gen X-ers and every other group that can be persuaded to our side.

I envision a 'Ladies Night'; 'Two-For-One Specials' on time block discounts; Red Eye Specials for early range hours before work; 'Extreme' combat courses...well, you get the idea. Make the focus on fun and publicize the hell out of it.

The big secret the Left tries to supress is NOT that 2A rights are inviolate. The big secret is that it is easy to convert anti-gun dingbat if they have a good time on the range. Invite your neighborhood communist to the range with you the next time you go, who knows, they might defect.

[Mulder]

Women like to meet and conspire against men and what better place than a shooting range?

A higher incidence of women shooters would also tend to reduce divorce and adultery rates, since the threat of "mutual assured destruction" would always exist.

[WorkingClassFilth]

P.S. My wife was an 'anti' from a family of left-leaning Ecumenical pukes. I put a shotgun in her hands and today she's Kim Kommando.

Well, not really, but my mother in law thinks so.

Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.

[autoresponder]

Ed McGivern could shoot a playing card thru on it's edge with an unmodified Colt or S&W.

I have an article here about him that shows him and his revolvers.

No lighter mansprings or trigger springs.

Tied back the trigger on a stock ColtSA for fanning.

A few had special wood stocks, one had a larger modified TG opening.

Was top dog until late in his career.

Unlikely looking shooter.

Was a lot faster and more accurate than I am.

My fastest is not one of my Colts, it's a stock nickle-plated MOP S&W BT circa 1883 .38DA.

Old S&W .38DA BTs were used by many top Border honchos.

Jordan liked S&Ws.

Ed is like that 75 year old guy who can sink 100 foul shots in a row.

Practice.

Dedication.

Sweat.

You forgot "Fitz" and his Colts with the TG cut off ahead of thr trigger.




Great post Shooter......

[autoresponder]

Ladies are into SASS bigtime!

Wayne, Eastwood, Dale, Lash

[Gigantor]

"...who's the only person you can think of who is famous solely for being a marksman?"

The Waco Kid?

[Euro-American Scum]

Suitable for framing!

[Euro-American Scum]

Hathcock was a Marine first and a marksman second. I read that in his book.

I worked with a retired Marine who served in the Corps twenty years. He spent part of his first tour in Vietnam in Hathcock's unit.

I asked him if all that I'd heard about his marksmanship abilities was true. He said yes. The man was scary if he was that good.

Carlos Hathcock could very well be the finest marksman this country ever produced.

[Shooter 2.5]

At one time, the shooters in this country were treated as the football and baseball players are today.

If anyone of today's citizens can recall any shooters in history, the only one they would know would be Mrs. Butler's because it certainly isn't taught in schools.

I talked to a gunowner who said his girlfriend would get nervous walking past his gunsafe!

[XRdsRev]

It is tough to make a fair determination of who the "best American marksman ever" was. Your selection is totally justified and a good one. However, I think that we are too quick now to give many of the early marksman short shrift.

Advances in small arms, ammunition and propellant technology have made accurate long distance shooting common today. Having fired modern weapons and earlier black powder rifles, my personal opinion is that it is a much, much tougher feat to hit a target consistantly at 200 yards with a flintlock rifle than it is to hit a target 3 times further away with a modern rifle. Accurately firing a flintlock or percussion rifle using patched ball or cast conical bullet is darned hard to do consistantly. You not only have to have good control of your body, you really need to be familiar with the individual tendancies of the weapon and ammunition you are firing. The early black powder weapons are never going to sink that real long distance shot like a modern weapon can and I think we sometimes forget just how hard those early guns were to shoot with accuracy.

America has produced many great marksman, some are well known, most have become annonymous. I am in awe of all of them but have a little extra admiration for the early guys who produced spectacular results using weapons and ammunition that are archaic and crude by todays standards.

[Euro-American Scum]

America has produced many great marksman, some are well known, most have become annonymous. I am in awe of all of them but have a little extra admiration for the early guys who produced spectacular results using weapons and ammunition that are archaic and crude by todays standards.

Point taken. And they didn't have the benefits of the History Channel singing their virtues.

[George Smiley]

Welcome to Cherry Ridge Range, northern New Jersey's largest rifle range, and backdrop for the annual "Women's Day at the Range."

Down here at one of the local ranges, every Tuesday is "Ladies' Night"...

Guess it's a cultural thing.

[DPB101]

Good turn-out?

[George Smiley]

Dunno.

(I hate getting outshot at the range.)

:^)