Women's Shooting Club, a Favorable Article

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This was recently posted in a newspaper I sometimes read. It's a fairly favorable article on a Dallas Area shooting club made up of women. I don't live in Dallas, so I had never heard of them before. I thought you guys and gals might find it interesting and pass on the info to the ladies in your life:



http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/Features/Outdoors/2010/09/17/DIVAs_with_guns/


DALLAS - When Judy Rhodes founded a group more than a decade ago to encourage women to shoot and hunt, her own outsized personality guaranteed that members would be a force to be reckoned with in the outdoors.
The group - DIVA ... Women Outdoors Worldwide or DIVA WOW - now counts more than 1,500 members around the world. Rhodes, the daughter of a Texas rancher who learned how to handle a BB gun at age 4, said that about half of the women who join also have strong outdoors backgrounds, while the other half haven't picked up a gun before.

"That was just second nature to me to see a shotgun or a rifle in the gun rack," said Rhodes, a feisty blonde with a Southern accent. "Whenever something slithers, crawls or hops, you've got to pop it."

The group offers clinics and seminars in fishing, archery, dog training and how to handle handguns, shotguns and even an AR-15.

They also organize hunts all over the world.

Rhodes said the group gives women the chance to find their niche in the outdoors.

For instance, she said, those who don't want to shoot something "with eyelashes," might enjoy shooting clay targets. But the 60-year-old Dallas designer said it doesn't take newcomers long to become converts.

Statistics from the National Sporting Goods Association show the number of women hunting and shooting has been on the rise.

According to the latest statistics, women hunting with firearms has increased from about 2.7 million in 2000 to about 3 million last year, and the number target shooting reached about 4.7 million.

When the "DIVA's" gather, there's lots of encouragement shouted, and usually a fair amount of accessorizing as well, said Rhodes, who has decorated promotional materials and their website with leopard print.

"When they first come to see us they may be in flip-flops and blue jeans and a nice tailored shirt, and the next thing we know, it's Annie Oakley," she said. "They have everything but the buckskin and the deer that they killed all draped around them."

Cheryl Long, 58, of Fairview, Texas, located just north of Dallas, joined the group around the time it was formed, not long after she started shooting pistols.

She's now the group's communications director.

"I really loved the actual part of the shooting and the competition," she said. "Then it was the camaraderie of the women. I loved the independent spirit of the ladies."
 
"a feisty blonde with a Southern accent".."I loved the independent spirit of the ladies"

what's not to love about that ?
(no/low post count, 12 hours ??)

not enough ladies on board here (see recent post inquiry by one of the too few, and low post count on that one).. and not even ONE lady mod around here, near as I can tell
and nobody insulted somebody else's choice of weapon or caliber
and no thinly veiled politics
and no tactical disputes
and no comments about movie scenes or video games
and no Grizz
and no pics of young pretty ladies
and no questions about whether or not my rights trump your rights
and no recommendations ignoring the stated choices named in OP
and no "good cop/bad cop"
and no "my dawg's better n yourn", nor "he/she touched me 1st"
just don't hardly seem "gun related", do it ?

maybe nothing "wrong" with that picture, but somethin' ain't quite right about it, either
(3 out of 6 billion, last time I looked, heckifiknow)

PS
pretty "High Road'"anyway, I think
 
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