That is good news and a great suggestion! :-D I work with women shooting on a regular basis because I am a leader of a chapter of A Girl and A Gun in our area (Austin). I would recommend the same on getting them involved with one of the local ladies groups in your area because we do combine social with the shooting. Women like the social part of it and makes them want to come back. The one thing that I can say about women (and our leadership group sees this across the country) is that only a few will actually pursue and go to training. Usually, it is because they don't feel they can spend money on themselves (this has been studied and applies to women at all levels of business and managing home life) or they want to go with other women in a group and they may not be able to find that. I know and expect to be the only woman in some of the training I do and in some smaller competition matches.AndyC wrote: He's had a lot of questions for me since then about women and firearms and recently asked about how to encourage those women who are first-time handgun owners to get out and shoot. I simply suggested he point them at two ladies' shooting groups who are local (as well as elsewhere, of course) to us, agirlandagun.com and divawow.org
He left me know that he's kicked the suggestion higher up the chain and Bass Pro seems to be very keen to make contact with both groups - I sure hope it happens
It is great that some of you men get your women to go out with you. I loved the one that wrote about the valentine gifts. Buy your women a gift certificate or membership to training or a ladies group. She may be more likely to participate because she will want to get the value out of it.
I am enclosing a link to one report on what I was referring to above. There has been a lot written about this on the internet. I see the reference about women needing to know they have 100% of the skills to apply for a job vs men. I think this also applies to firearm training and sometimes it requires a little push from a loved one or encouragement from a peer.
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