I was excited to see the increase in women hunters. I hope there is also an increase in juniors participating in hunting and shooting sports.
A few years ago I was hunting and came across a little Toyota car parked on a dirt road. I saw two young ladies standing near by looking lost.
I stopped to see if there was a problem. There was, they had shot a deer and had no idea what to do with it. Turns out these ladies were single mothers, and they decided to supplement their food stores by hunting. They pooled the meager funds to buy a license, barrowed a rifle and went hunting. Found a nice deer and shot it. I came on them as they were trying to figure out what to do with it and how to get it in their car.
I dressed the deer, loaded it for them. I also gave them a quick idea how to cut it up.
It's great to see more women involved. Its up to us help them to make it as pleasurable as possible so they come back, and when they come back they bring their sons and daughters.
My wife grew up wanting to hunt. She was always told "girls don't hunt" and because of he eye sight she would never be able to shoot.
She told me that I got mad at first, then my Coaching Ego took over. There is no HOPELESS SHOOTERS. I took her out to my back yard range. Zeroed my Model 70 in 257 Rbts. to her eyes and had her whacking a 8 inch gong at 200 yards in no time at all. Then took her out to the ridge behind the house where she got her first deer. That did it, I had to build her "her own rifle" and now she's my hunting partner.