Women get chance to learn target shooting
Date: May 21, 2005 12:35 PM
PUBLICATION: Times Colonist (Victoria)
DATE: 2005.05.21
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Life
PAGE: E2
BYLINE: Katherine Dedyna
SOURCE: Times Colonist

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Women get chance to learn target shooting

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Tired of spa retreats? Maybe it’s time to have a barrel of fun with introductory
firearms instruction. For the first time in its history, the North Saanich Rod &
Gun Club on McTavish Road is offering a ladies-only fun and gun weekend May 27-29
that’s designed to get the fairer sex in touch with their inner target-shooter.

Aimed at women without firearms experience, the $50 weekend provides an opportunity
to get up close and personal with several kinds of firearms including pistols and
rifles and shoot a couple of cartridges of each. The club has an estimated 175 members
and very few of them are female, says executive member David Brown. And if women
like the experience, they’re welcome to join the club. About a dozen women have
already signed up and space is limited.

All firearms will be supplied as well as ammunition, targets, eye and ear protection.

The introductory course will also address legal issues pertaining to firearms and
safety.

People who stereotype target shooters as rednecks have it all wrong, Brown says.
“They’re such nice people, it’s incredible.”

And target shooting is a tough game. “People who don’t shoot think it’s easy.
It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of practice.” To excel, it helps to be fairly
young and the average age of club members is getting up there.

The weekend begins with registration Friday from 7 -9 p.m. and continues Saturday
9-4 p.m. and Sunday 9-3 p.m.

And because shooting is sure to make the gals hungry, lunch will be provided both
days with the registration fee. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or
call 744-4646.Katherine Dedyna