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·I was watching a revolver competetion yesterday on tv in which a young lady, every bit of 13-14 years young was shooting in the competetion and actually outshooting some of the master class shooters.
This reminded me of a match that I was shooting years ago in Gulfport, MS at the police range. Jim McNally was the range master and he was tutoring a 13 year old young lady trying to prepare her for the olympic tryouts that year. We were shooting a full 2700 outdoor pistol match in which she was competeing. We came to the centerfire portion of the match shooting the second 50yd target. She was shooting a Clark built wad gun in 45 cal. On her second shot, the pistol did not go into battery fully and when she squeezed the pistol, it exploded. She had powder burns all over her hand and face and bits of brass in her face. She calmly remained in her stance until Jim could remove the pistol from her hand. She then went to the ladies room and cleaned the powder and brass from her hand and face and returned to the firing line. Jim had checked the pistol and it was ok but had replaced it with another one just like it, replaced the ammo, and she stepped up to the firing line and "CLEANED" the next 50yd target. Talk about cool, calm, and collected. She went on to the olympic tryouts and I never heard whether she made the team or not.
This reminded me of a match that I was shooting years ago in Gulfport, MS at the police range. Jim McNally was the range master and he was tutoring a 13 year old young lady trying to prepare her for the olympic tryouts that year. We were shooting a full 2700 outdoor pistol match in which she was competeing. We came to the centerfire portion of the match shooting the second 50yd target. She was shooting a Clark built wad gun in 45 cal. On her second shot, the pistol did not go into battery fully and when she squeezed the pistol, it exploded. She had powder burns all over her hand and face and bits of brass in her face. She calmly remained in her stance until Jim could remove the pistol from her hand. She then went to the ladies room and cleaned the powder and brass from her hand and face and returned to the firing line. Jim had checked the pistol and it was ok but had replaced it with another one just like it, replaced the ammo, and she stepped up to the firing line and "CLEANED" the next 50yd target. Talk about cool, calm, and collected. She went on to the olympic tryouts and I never heard whether she made the team or not.
