Neat WSJ Article

jhmartin · Post by **jhmartin** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:50 pm

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... #printMode

Mike M. · Post by **Mike M.** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:46 pm

It might be worth pointing out that while the MLAIC does have a women's black powder rifle event, the women also compete in all other MLAIC disciplines. And do quite well.

jhmartin · Post by **jhmartin** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:41 pm

Response from USAS:
http://www.usashooting.org/news/2012/2/ ... e-shooting

Brian M · Post by **Brian M** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:08 pm

So, lots of words to say:

Women separate so there's more opportunity for women to shoot/compete

but

Women could compete on the same level if we wanted to allow it.

Fine, but let the fairer sex shoot the same 60 shots in their separate matches so we know when they're kicking our butts. :D

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:09 am

My wife and I have hunted together since we were married and she has had her share of success. I started her shooting Bullseye pistol less than year and a half ago. A couple months later while our son was visiting he switched her to Air Pistol. Which she picked it up quickly and began shooting alot so she could feed the competitive beast that lives with in her. She worked hard at it but felt she was losing to men that didn't seem to work at all. Finally she ask me why do men shoot better than women. I said Honey you have been at this long enough to know it is a mental game. She agreed. So I told her the truth, men are just smarter than women. She gave me a look that said she didn't believe me so a proved it by saying hey look who is asking the questions and who is answering them. Luckily she appreciates my humor.

Dan

BenEnglishTX · Post by **BenEnglishTX** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:06 pm

jhmartin wrote:Response from USAS:

Good article.

However, I don't expect there to be much behind-the-scenes history coming from USAS. Back in the 1980s, IIRC, the NRA was still the NGB for ISU sports, right? I got an extensive briefing on the integration and subsequent de-integration of shooting sports from the fellow who headed up ISU matters for the NRA one day during the 1986 Olympic Festival in Houston, an event for which I coordinated the shooting venues.

No, I don't remember the names and particulars and wouldn't repeat them if I could but his account laid the causes directly on personality conflicts and personal agendas of specific, influential individuals in the shooting sports, from about 1960 until that time. IOW, he laid it all down to a bunch of back-stabbing, power-grubbing politics.

Now that it's the USAS instead of the NRA and the ISSF instead of the ISU, I'm sure all politics has evaporated and everyone just works for the good of the sport, right?

Brian M · Post by **Brian M** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:11 pm

BenEnglishTX wrote:Now that it's the USAS instead of the NRA and the ISSF instead of the ISU, I'm sure all politics has evaporated and everyone just works for the good of the sport, right?

You should go on the road, I think you have a strong career as a stand up comedian available to you.

jhmartin · Post by **jhmartin** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:03 pm

Anonymous wrote:So I told her the truth, men are just smarter than women. She gave me a look that said she didn't believe me so a proved it by saying hey look who is asking the questions and who is answering them. Luckily she appreciates my humor.

Dan

And she showed you this past Saturday at the Trials too... (big grin)
Joel

peterz · Post by **peterz** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:31 pm

Dan (anonymous),

Are you still "intact?". Still married?

My wife would have taken sensitive pieces of my anatomy.

-pz

dand · Post by **dand** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:22 pm

Oh yeah she got me over the weekend. That is good too. I didn't want to get in her way at that match. I still know the rule - happy wife happy life. My dad taught me to stir it up every once in awile though just so you can make up.
Yes pz I am still married (25 yrs). That little prank didn't upset her half as bad as when I bought her a belly band concealment holster for Valantines Day and she mistook it for a girdle. I guess shouldn't have put it in the pink VS gift bag and told her I got her something black to wear under her clothes. But I went from zero to hero when she found out how comfortably she could carry. Then she pointed out that it was also slimming. Go figure.

Dan