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Jerry always closes his weak eye on longer precision shots or small targets. Bottom line....he's tried it both ways and gets the best results with an eye closed. The shooting glasses he uses for iron sights actually have magnification on the right lense but none in the left lense. I get dizzy looking through them. He's much more prone to closing the weak eye with iron sights but again he'll close it even with the dot gun on harder shots.
Kay M.
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For those of you that don't know Athena......she is a former IPSC Ladies World Champion. She was on the Phillipine World Team for several World Shoots and then she moved to the US so we stole her for the US Team this year. I look forward to having her on many more US World Ladies Teams. She's another one of those ladies that I love to shoot against!
You know the way to my place Athena. Come up and practice with me anytime.
Kay
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Hello Jane. Welcome to the SureShotLadys Club. I am going to keep you in mind. I am "computer challenged". At age forty-eight I have finally decided I will have to learn more about them and how to use them so I am attempting to teach myself......but I do not like it! So many other things I would rather be doing......like shooting!
Welcome
Kay
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I have only a vague recollection of Julie running around as a teenager at the old Miller Invitational matches in Syracuse, NY. (At least I think that was Julie.) She didn?t really register on my radar screen until she became a member of the AMU. And even then, for the first four years I didn?t consider her a real threat. But boy did she get it in gear those last four years! Now as a member of Team Glock I consider Julie one of the best Production class shooters, man or woman, in the country.
Now don?t take this wrong, but Julie is one of the people I love to beat! Because if I do beat her, I know that I have beaten the best. Julie has absolutely fantastic, near flawless technique. She is so smooth she flows through a stage. I have learned a lot just watching her. On top of all that?..she?s a nice person and a great representative of our sport.
Also want to thank Julie for her help with the ladies camps. I couldn?t do it without her and Lisa.
Kay
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Since this is the bragging page I wanted to tell you that I have been nominated for "Small Business Person of the Year" by the Bossier City Chamber of Commerce. My business, Clark Guns & Personal Safety, was one of the top 10 small businesses in the area for 2005. So why isn't my bank account bigger???
Kay
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I have noticed that women seem to be more sensitive to the noise. I would like to get some input from an ear doctor and see if this is just my imagination or is there a scientific explanation? Any doctors out there?
Kay
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Thought I would throw in a couple of pointers here on grip and stance. This is the same thing any male firearms instructor would tell you but I just thought I would emphasis these points because they are doubly important for women. The main disadvantage women have when it comes to shooting is their upper body strength. (Or more precisely their lack of upper body strength.) Women must, must, must have excellent grip and stance techniques in order to control recoil. She's not going to be able to do it with brute strength.
Stance.....Women must have an aggressive, "power" stance. This means she should be leaning forward with her weight on the balls and toes of her feet. Knees should be slightly bent, feet roughly shoulder width apart. No leaning back! Your strong side foot many be slightly further back than your weak side foot. You'll have to play with this and see what works for you. This can change depending on the recoil of the handgun. If I am shooting a S&W 500 my strong side foot is a good twelve inches behind my weak side foot and I am really leaning forward with most of my weight on my weak leg. Ladies, we don't have the muscle to manage the recoil so we must use bone and body weight to our best advantage.
Grip.....Even more important in managing recoil! Always grab a handgun as high as possible with BOTH hands. If you shoot an auto that allows you to use a high thumb grip (i.e. thumb riding on top of the thumb safety) then do it. "Riding" the thumb safety will allow you to get an extremely high grip with your weak hand as well. There should be no gap (or very little) between the hands. Once you have that good, high grip really concentrate on using that weak hand! It's not doing anything else, so grip hard with it! You should get most of your recoil control from your weak hand!
One other thing I will throw in here. Ladies, don't start with to much gun! I think everyone should learn the basic techniques with a .22 caliber handgun. Once you are comfortable and confident with a .22 move up to a full size 9mm handgun, then a .40 or .45 and so on. Flinching is an unconscious reaction that takes lots of conscious effort to overcome. If you start out with to large a caliber you will learn to flinch.
Good Shooting,
Kay
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Hi Annette. Sounds like you have gotten seriously into practical pistol shooting in a very short time. Look forward to meeting you a match sometime soon. Wisconsin is a long way from Louisiana but I've never shot Area 5 so who knows???
Kay
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My name is Kay and as the daughter of a gunsmith and National Champion Bullseye shooter I have been shooting since I could hold a gun. These days the majority of my competition shooting is done with handguns but I still enjoy participating in several 3-Gun matches each year including the USPSA 3-Gun Nationals and the Sportsman?s Team Challenge. I especially enjoy the Sportsman?s Team Challenge competitions because my three person team is composed of myself, my twenty year old daughter and my twenty-four year old niece. At the 2005 STC my ten year old daughter also competed on a two person team with her sister. The whole family participated and we had a blast even when we didn?t shoot well!
A good bit of my time is dedicated to organizing and teaching the Ladies Practical Pistol Camps that inspired this forum. I have a great time meeting and teaching the ladies that attend these camps. The camps have served to rejuvenate my enthusiasm in the shooting sports and as a result I am shooting as strong as I ever have in my fifteen years of Practical pistol shooting. Since I will be forty-nine in May I consider this no small feat!
I look forward to keeping up with my students (and competitors) accomplishments through the Bragging section that will eventually be included in this forum. I am also happy to answer any questions that any new ladies have about getting started in the shooting sports. I do not always answer e-mails immediately but I do eventually. I thank Santa is going to bring me a new laptop for Christmas so maybe I will do a better job of this in the future.
See you on the range.
Kay
Megan Madigan
in Ladies, Tell Us Who You Are [co-ed]
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I love to see young women getting seriously into this sport! In just two short years Megan is able to compete with the top ladies. A little more match experience and she's gona start kicking my butt! I too see a National title in Megan's future. But won't it be a great race?!!!!
Kay