Women On Target shoot last Saturday.

[Adam Helmer]

Last Saturday I ran the muzzleloader shooting bench at my nearby gun club. We had 33 women sign up for the all day event where they shot trap, .22 rifles, .22 pistols, archery and muzzleloaders.

I had a .50 Hawken flintlock, a .50 Hawken caplock, and a .50 T/C Inline on the firing line. I was pleasantly surprised to find out the most popular arm was the flintlock. We did lots of shooting and I went through several flints keeping the flinter in operation.

The women came to each station in groups of five or six persons for a 40 minute orientation. After an introduction to loading and firing a muzzleloader, each woman loaded and fired like a grenadier. Several women said they were going to go buy a flinter and some joined the gun club that day.

The bottom line is all are voters as well as shooters and we did advise them to vote on November 4, 2008. Who else is working on our future?

Adam