{"id":3998,"date":"2016-12-14T21:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2016-12-14T21:07:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:07:03","slug":"2016-a-good-year-for-female-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2016-a-good-year-for-female-shooters\/","title":{"rendered":"2016: A GOOD YEAR FOR FEMALE SHOOTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a good year for female shooters.\u00a0 America\u2019s first Gold Medal in this year\u2019s Olympics was captured by young Virginia Thrasher, competing in ten meter Women\u2019s Air Rifle.\u00a0 Kim Rhode went Gold, too. Having won her first world shooting championship at the tender age of 13, Ms. Rhode is described thus in Wikipedia: \u00a0\u201cA\u00a0California\u00a0native, she is a six-time\u00a0Olympic\u00a0medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple Olympic Champion and the only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap. She won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the\u00a02012 Summer Olympic Games, equaling the world record of 99 out of 100 clays.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Rhode#cite_note-2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Most recently, she won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics making her the first Olympian to win a medal on five different continents and the first Summer Olympian to win an individual medal at six consecutive summer games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an American, I\u2019m proud of them both. Personally, though, I\u2019m proudest of a female champ I do have the honor of knowing, Kim Heath of the Will County (Illinois) Sheriff\u2019s Department. An awesome trainer, she showed her mettle this year when she won the National Patrol Rifle Championships where the competition is not only very tough but very strenuous, \u00a0beating all the men present as well as the handful of other female officers.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the\u00a0story on that.<\/p>\n<p>You can see her in action, teaching:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x30eLfXcbcc\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOr you can watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x30eLfXcbcc\" target=\"_blank\">video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I salute them all.\u00a0 The great rifle expert Col. Townsend Whelen was famous for saying, \u201cOnly accurate rifles are interesting.\u201d\u00a0 To that one might add, \u201cOnly strong women are interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a good year for female shooters.\u00a0 America\u2019s first Gold Medal in this year\u2019s Olympics was captured by young Virginia Thrasher, competing in ten meter Women\u2019s Air Rifle.\u00a0 Kim Rhode went Gold, too. Having won her first world shooting championship at the tender age of 13, Ms. Rhode is described thus in Wikipedia: [&hellip;]<\/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-3998","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\/3998","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=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/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=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}