Took my wife out shooting today,
Had to drag her out there - as I always do
Her grip was all wrong -as it always is.
She shot 3 different pistols only one of which she has ever shot before (about 2 years ago)
She shot a total of 55 or 60 rounds (I lost count) mostly at 7 yards some were at 10 yards
Every round in the “A” ZONE of an IPSC target.
How does she do that?! Not one miss, hasn’t shot a round in over 18 months, 3 different guns, everything in the “A” zone
My daughter is the same way. Doesn’t matter the weapon, she’s on it even though she only shoots maybe 5 times a year. Besides her home defense shotgun, I think she has 4 handguns. Shoots them all very well. Even out to 15 yards with the Springfield and Kimber. Tight groups.
My Wife is the same way - she’s not particularly aggressive in her shooting, and despite having vision in only one eye: out of 87 shooters I made like 72nd place - and she’s like 58th or 59th or something….
(Granted, this was with her .22 RIA Derya Carbine vs me in my TX22 pistol. The only “plus” I guess is, she doesn’t have to fight cross-eye-dominance issues, and three points of contact beats two, Naturally)
(BTW - if you knew how many National and even a couple of International Champions we have in our Club… there’s just under 150 members and nearly 40 of them are ranked “Grandmaster”, with I don’t know how many are “Master” Classification. None of which I knew about when we joined the Club)
women naturally have better breathing control and better stance. its sad but they’re almost more relaxed usually when shooting it would appear.. i know thats not true though cause i know some that get really wound up about shooting.. but yeah, the breathing and gun control is true, they really do have it better than us.
My daughter shot for the first time ever a couple months ago. I had her shoot 6 different firearms at a very similar target only at 25 yards and she got all hits, mostly A zone and about 10% B zone. But she got tired quickly using muscles she never used before being a typical 13 year-old
When I teach people to shoot (woman & kids more so then adult men) I shut everything down while it is still really fun. Don’t let goals or your expectations make range day so long they stop having fun.
My goal is to hear 2 things from them;
Do we really have to go?
Can we do this again?
If you can keep them wanting more, you are on the right track.
I wish someone had told me this back when I would drag my wife to the range for hours and let her get board & wanting to go home.
