Now that is funny, my yard is at 12ft. and the dock is 2ft. The stairs makes the difference. I live in short country, you tall country guys get some real exercise just breathing.
Shooting steel critters for years gives you an entirely different perspective on long range handgun shooting. Regular big bore silhouette is to 200 meters, long range handgun is to rifle ranges, out to 500 meters. So seeing the ladies out hammering steel is pretty common indeed. It is like everything else, in shooting, it is a matter of figuring out how, then executing the same every time.
Let me know if you can not find the LC brass, if my CRS memory is right, I recall having some once fired, somewhere.
Ed