{"id":2918,"date":"2014-10-26T21:39:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2014-10-26T21:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T01:39:48","slug":"chicks-rule-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/chicks-rule-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"CHICKS RULE, REDUX"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a father of daughters and have had the privilege of training multiple female shooting champions, including both of those daughters who each won national titles while still in their teens.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also spoken in court for some forty female law enforcement officers who were fired for failure to qualify with handguns that weren\u2019t the right size for them (and which they sometimes weren\u2019t trained with correctly), when I was able to confirm that proper training and suitable police weapons that DID fit them allowed them to qualify just fine.\u00a0 So, it pleases this old testosterone creature when the estrogen tribe kicks butt with guns.<\/p>\n

At the NRA annual conference in Indianapolis this year, I got to meet Lena Miculek.\u00a0 She\u2019s the daughter of two old friends: Jerry Miculek, whom I consider the greatest double action revolver shooter of our time and probably ever, and Kay Clark-Miculek, a national champion shooter in her own right and a kick-ass gunsmith who built the Clark Custom Ruger 10\/22 I used to earn a Rifleman patch at my first Appleseed event.<\/p>\n

Yeah, there may be a genetics component: if the sire and the dam are both Kentucky Derby winners, you can expect their filly to win races, too.\u00a0 More to the point, though, both Jerry and Kay have shown themselves for decades to be exemplary as both human beings and shooting athletes, and they passed their dedication to excellence along to their daughter as well as all their knowledge.\u00a0 She has been stomping mucho boo-tay in three-gun (rifle\/shotgun\/handgun) competition.\u00a0 Her father is duly appreciative: see photo.\"Jerry<\/a><\/p>\n

Closer to home for this writer, estrogen still ruled this week.\u00a0 Last Saturday, we finished a MAG-40 class in Florida and as usual, staff shot a pace-setter demonstration of the qualification, and then it was the students\u2019 turn.\u00a0 The instructors toss in $5 apiece, top staffer taking all\u2026students pony up a buck each, winning student taking all\u2026and anybody who beats me gets an autographed $5.\u00a0 Tie scores on point value over the 60-shot qualification course are broken by group measurement: tightest shot cluster prevails.<\/p>\n

Among the students were many instructors and some proven competition shooters, and the staff half a dozen state and regional shooting champions and at least four who have held national titles in handgun shooting competition.\u00a0 When the proverbial gunsmoke had cleared, there were more than a couple of us who had perfect 300 out of 300 scores.\u00a0 Mine lost on tie-breaker to that of Lt. Col. Dave \u201cthe Blaze\u201d Blazek, USAF retired, who last month won the title of high military shooter at the IDPA National Championships in Tulsa.\u00a0 Dave usually beats me anyway, but to add insult to injury, he did it this time shooting southpaw even though he\u2019s naturally right-handed\u2026and I\u2019m awfully proud of him.<\/p>\n

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However, beating us BOTH and everyone else, was my own significant other, the Evil Princess.\u00a0 She does that, every now and then \u2013 beating everybody on the range, including all the men, and most cruelly, including ME \u2013 because, I suspect, she just likes to feel the testosterone drop about ten degrees in male-dominated environments. J<\/p>\n

And nobody\u2019s\u00a0 prouder of that than me.\u00a0 Chicks rule!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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