This Saturday, 30 May, I was privileged to participate in a NRA "Women on Target" clinic held at the Livingston Gun Club in Brighton, MI.

There was close to 100 women in attendance. They had the opportunity to learn how to handle pistols, shotguns, rifles and bows/arrows.

I worked as a rifle instructor. From talking to some of the ladies, they were there because their husbands owned guns but never included them in their shooting activities. Some ladies had plenty of experience shooting shotguns, but no experience with pistols or rifles. Far more had no experience whatsoever and wanted to get a taste of shooting before they go out and buy their first gun.

The ladies were great. At the rifle station, we had four shooting benches and four instructors. We (the instructors) took as much time as we could to try and make sure that each shooter had a positive experience and because of that, things slowed down a little bit when they got to the rifle station.
But I didn't hear any complaints and when a group showed up and one of them started knocking down steel plates like an FBI sniper, they'd cheer her on and applaud.

Here is a group picture of the women who came out. I think the attendance was somewhere between 90 and 100. There was a prize table too. Events like this seem to be easy to collect swag for. There was t-shirts, ball caps, gun cleaning kits, air soft guns and a few other things. Each woman received a certificate of completion from the NRA.

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1 Awesome turnout!

Posted by: Tam at June 01, 2009 09:05 PM (yt4RN)

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