{"id":1496,"date":"2011-10-04T01:16:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2011-10-04T01:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:16:58","slug":"fitting-females-with-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/fitting-females-with-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"FITTING FEMALES WITH FIREARMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current issue of Backwoods Home magazine contains my article, requested by Editor Annie Tuttle, on how to best fit guns to women.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/articles2\/ayoob131.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I see the importance of fitting guns to smaller bodies constantly in my \u201cday job\u201d at Massad Ayoob Group. (http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com<\/a> ). A few weeks ago in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, we had some excellent shooters in one of my MAG-40 classes.\u00a0 More than half shot 300 out of 300 on the final qualification run, which encompasses 60 timed shots including strong hand only, non-dominant hand only, standing, kneeling, etc.\u00a0 The tie-breaker win for overall top shooter went to a young lady who kicked mucho male boo-tay to do it.<\/p>\n

She came to us already a very fast action pistol competitor, and on the skill-set side of the class, we concentrated on sharpening up her accuracy.\u00a0 She clearly was listening.\u00a0 She started out with a CZ75 9mm, a rather large Czechoslovakian pistol, and wound up switching to a Smith & Wesson Military & Police pistol in the same caliber. As noted in the above-linked article, this gun has interchangeable backstraps to adapt fit in general and the trigger-reach dimension in particular, to the shooter. This was the gun she used to win the \u201cshooting contest,\u201d capturing the pot of a dollar each from all the shooters in the class.\u00a0 (We do that the Bill Jordan way: \u201cNo Second Place Winner.\u201d)<\/p>\n

It was her focus, skill, dexterity and mental discipline that captured the victory, but a firearm that perfectly fit her small hand was a part of it, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it doesn\u2019t fit, you won\u2019t hit\u201d\u2026 at least, not as well as you might have. And that goes for the guys as well as the gals.<\/p>\n

With spent brass from the last shot still in the air, this young lady is already on target for the next with a well-fitted S&W M&P 9mm, as the stopwatch ticks…\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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…and she finishes at the top of her class, beating all the men, with a 300\/300 “qualification mode” score, and a high 590s out of 600 tie-breaker in “competition mode scoring.” \u00a0Scoring key for qualification mode can be seen at upper left of the B27 silhouette target.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The current issue of Backwoods Home magazine contains my article, requested by Editor Annie Tuttle, on how to best fit guns to women. http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/articles2\/ayoob131.html I see the importance of fitting guns to smaller bodies constantly in my \u201cday job\u201d at Massad Ayoob Group. (http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com ). A few weeks ago in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, we had some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competition","8":"category-firearms","9":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}