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Happy dance!

My daughter just came by and said she received her CHL in the mail yesterday.

43 days....is pretty darn fast.

Time for the Wally Walk.

I just know folks are gonna stare when they see that target stapled to her cap though.

Jeremae wrote:I WISH I could shoot like Mrs. V!

Here she is in action for any doubters who think those of us who know her are exagerating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLhRejYlbM

Yes Sir!

Nice smooth presentation of weapon, good cadence (equal time between shots), recoil control very good, and reloads were EXCELLENT!

She's a shooter, no doubt about it.

Thats the kind of "Shoots like a girl" I'm talking about!

solaritx wrote:Ok, I'll bite as well.

I humbly bow my head and recount to the world that not only did a girl outshoot me with a better time than I had at the Smith and Wesson Winter Championships, but she was also a Junior.

Oh by the way, she outshot a heck of a lot of people to win her classification in her division. (at 16 years old)

For the record, the winners of both the ESP/MM (my daughter) and the winner of the ESP/SS of the S&W Winter Championships for 2007 were estrogen fueled.

Humbled by youth and estrogen

Yup, heres mine:

Had a group of youngsters (12-20 yrs. old) out for a "shoot" one weekend about 5-6 yrs ago.

One of the drills for the more experienced shooters is one I call "shooting the V". It is a transistion drill meant to challenge the shooter by forcing them to "transition" from one target to the next while advancing on the targets.

Five 9" steel plates are set up (on steel rods) in the shape of a "V", the mouth of the "V" is about 10 feet wide.

From hands up, at the buzzer, the shooter must draw, advance toward the targets (never stopping), shoot the first target at the mouth of the "V" then swing to the opposite side, and then back... and so on.

The last target in the center is the stop plate.

A 15 yr. old girl I have worked with in the past... borrowed a friend of mines 5" Springfield in 9mm. She cleared the plates in 4.46 the first time and then backed it up with a run in the 4.20's

After everyone had left for the day, it took me three tries to beat her time.

The next weekend at church...I stopped her and "fessed up", she just giggled a little, but her dad was beaming.

stevie_d_64 wrote:I dunno...Looks like its going to be hard to wear those ballcaps with that target stapled to the back of them...

Yeah, my daughter kinda balked at that too!

Her real objection though....was that I stapled the target on while she was still wearing the cap.

She seems to think it would have been better to put the target on the cap first.

College kids! They think they're so smart......

LedJedi wrote:perhaps it should be "shoots like a liberal" :)

Naw, we don't use the "L" word in my home.

TxRVer wrote:I wonder if the guy ever heard of Annie Oakley. I've never met a woman that couldn't shoot better than most men.

When you move from pistols to long guns the playing field evens out better still.

As previously stated, women may not stay with the shooting disciplines as long as their male counterparts. So, ultimately they may not achieve the same level of proficiency as most of the men, but is not because they are not capable, it is because they stop.

More and more..... women are getting training that was not available (to anyone) a couple of decades ago (or at least they didn't seek it out).

Those who do seek out training seem to do quite well. I have had many more men scare me to death with poor shooting habits and gun handling than any of the women have.

So, again....I say "Shoots like a girl doesn't mean what it did in the past".

I'm pretty proud of the ones I've had the pleasure to train and shoot with.

Keep up the good work Gals!

llwatson wrote:"Shoots like a girl".

Now that's high praise around our house!

I hear ya!

I overheard a friend of mine at work telling a co-worker that he went shooting with a group of guys last weekend and that one of the fellas was real nice but "He shot like a girl".

I was barely able to "let it pass"....but managed somehow.

First of all, "Shoots like a Girl" doesn't mean what it used to!

Here is my daughters CHL proficiency test target:




There were 18 students in the class that day, only 4 managed perfect scores. Hers was the tightest group of all shooters (including an LEO) and she hasn't shot in 3 years. The instructor gives away a ball cap to all who shoot perfect scores. She did cut the 9 line with a couple, but still bested all other shooters. Another of the perfect scores was also by an older lady (two men, two ladies).

I'll bet there are more than a few men here that have been "out-shot" by a female at one time or another. It is sometimes hard to get them to admit it, because we males tend to think that we come down the birth canal knowing how to ride, rope, shoot, spit and cuss.

Having trained several hundred people to shoot, I find that females often do better than the males...because they will take instruction, ask questions, and don't let "ego" get in their way. They also display better hand/eye coordination and fine motor skills.

The females may not have as much interest in taking their shooting skills to higher levels (many stop at intermediate levels), but they are certainly capable of doing so.

So guys, next time you're tempted to use that old phrase "Shoots like a girl", you might want to compare targets.

Lets support our ladies!


Flint.