Women in Shooting

[Confidis]

It may be prudent to make the parking spaces at the clay grounds a little wider if this works out.

 

[VSS]

It may be prudent to make the parking spaces at the clay grounds a little wider if this works out.

Don't they have to be quite wide anyway, so overweight blokes can get in and out of their cars?

 

[Morkai]

Never park next to fatties or cars with child seats in them, unless you drive an absolute heap.

 

[Artemis Deerstalking]

Interesting replies, I wonder what @Artemis Deerstalking would wish to contribute?
They had a great time with the banned member Norfolk Deer Search on a ladies day, not their first or last either.
I have been taking out a member recently, great company.

On a different interest, as I teach fly fishing give me a female to teach any day of the week, they listen, and don't over power the c

Interesting replies, I wonder what @Artemis Deerstalking would wish to contribute?
They had a great time with the banned member Norfolk Deer Search on a ladies day, not their first or last either.
I have been taking out a member recently, great company.

On a different interest, as I teach fly fishing give me a female to teach any day of the week, they listen, and don't over power the cast!

Where to begin!!!
Firstly I think it would be fair to say that we, ladies, in general don't want to be treated differently. The groups that have been set up privately, without any help from the big organisations, have done so out of necessity, not for exclusivity.
I personally can't speak for game shooting as I am not involved.
Our group began because of our own experiences and the difficulties encountered when not coming from a shooting background, not because we wanted to be sexist.
Women encounter a whole lot of issues that most men have never even considered when booking a stalk with a stranger.
Our aim was to be able to direct ladies to people who are recommended, safe and responsible. Hopefully encouraging more women to take that step and get involved. It seems to be working and the support from the industry has been incredible.
Bigger organisations will always fill days and events easily because of the amount of members they have. The real help for us comes more from the grass routes level. The guys who are prepared to help get the ladies out there and learning, often from scratch on a consistent basis.
The numbers of women are steadily growing but will never match the amount of men involved in stalking for many reasons. We'll just keep doing what we do and encourage as many people, both sexes, into the sport as possible.
It would seem that in the next few years there could be a lot of changes across the entire shooting industry. It's time to stand together and help each other more, not less.

 

[Stalker62]

Women encounter a whole lot of issues that most men have never even considered when booking a stalk with a stranger.

Absolutely.

Anything that ameliorates this real issue, is to be both welcomed and applauded.

 

[tim@tcs]

Absolutely.

Anything that ameliorates this real issue, is to be both welcomed and applauded.

Over the years that I guided clients not one was female but plenty had been set up by wives and girlfriends as presents. I did guide a friends daughter but with him present and eventually they both went stalking together until she left home and it just became less frequent. That happens a lot with youth but I know that once she has settled in her adult routine she will be back stalking regularly with her dad.

 

[Stalker62]

I did guide a friends daughter but with him present ...

@tim@tcs

I made a policy of never having a member of the public in my office, without a member of staff, and I would never have a member of the staff in my office with the door closed.

I think is must hark back to my days in the NHS, and always having a 'chaperone' when examining patients of the opposite sex (which when you think about it, is sexist).

An evil 'necessity' for the protection of all parties.

Sad really...

 

[artschool]

i took a woman out stalking and first she got zapped by the electric fence and then she fell in a river.

true story.

 

[Artemis Deerstalking]

that is not how to encourage people into the sport

 

[Stalker62]

i took a woman out stalking and first she got zapped by the electric fence and then she fell in a river.

You say 'fell'...

 

[artschool]

that is not how to encourage people into the sport

it’s ok we are still going out

 

[Keith Edmunds]

How on earth can you tackle it head on? MAKE people go shooting that don’t want to? Stop people going who want to? What on earth is BASC spending money on this virtue signaling mission for?

Why differentiate between male and female? We are just humans, this ‘inclusiveness’ derived segregation is causing problems in order to a) virtue signal and/or b) ‘fix’ to give them something to do ideally in order to distract from what they haven’t been doing.

Can I suggest that BASC should focus on relevant activities benefitting their paying members rather than this ‘special project’ simply creating tasks?

Who is accountable for this waste of resource?

Totally agree with all of the above.

We are just humans, this ‘inclusiveness’ derived segregation is causing problems

 

[devon deer stalker]

Where to begin!!!
Firstly I think it would be fair to say that we, ladies, in general don't want to be treated differently. The groups that have been set up privately, without any help from the big organisations, have done so out of necessity, not for exclusivity.
I personally can't speak for game shooting as I am not involved.
Our group began because of our own experiences and the difficulties encountered when not coming from a shooting background, not because we wanted to be sexist.
Women encounter a whole lot of issues that most men have never even considered when booking a stalk with a stranger.
Our aim was to be able to direct ladies to people who are recommended, safe and responsible. Hopefully encouraging more women to take that step and get involved. It seems to be working and the support from the industry has been incredible.
Bigger organisations will always fill days and events easily because of the amount of members they have. The real help for us comes more from the grass routes level. The guys who are prepared to help get the ladies out there and learning, often from scratch on a consistent basis.
The numbers of women are steadily growing but will never match the amount of men involved in stalking for many reasons. We'll just keep doing what we do and encourage as many people, both sexes, into the sport as possible.
It would seem that in the next few years there could be a lot of changes across the entire shooting industry. It's time to stand together and help each other more, not less.

Thanks for the reply, and as I thought, a great reply.

 

[Rasputin]

Speaking from this weekends experience I am now wholly against women in shooting especially if they live with you. Stupidly left my laptop open whilst perusing new thermals she now has developed an unhealthy inclination to ask how much my blasers cost, Swarovski scope and such like.

100% would not recommend further opening this can of worms or get everything shipped to a mates and then to bring it round and say here’s this thing you wanted to borrow.

God forbid she finds the fishing tackle receipts as well.

 

[Stalker62]

Stupidly left my laptop open whilst perusing new thermals...

Yeah.

Thermals.

If you say so...

 

[Herb64]

Speaking from this weekends experience I am now wholly against women in shooting especially if they live with you. Stupidly left my laptop open whilst perusing new thermals she now has developed an unhealthy inclination to ask how much my blasers cost, Swarovski scope and such like.

100% would not recommend further opening this can of worms or get everything shipped to a mates and then to bring it round and say here’s this thing you wanted to borrow.

God forbid she finds the fishing tackle receipts as well.

Did similar once, left a Scott Country catalogue laying around, her ladyship took some convincing that my thermal was not the same as the one in the brochure costing a fair sum. My work colleges are told by not to pay her what she thinks I’ve paid for shooting paraphernalia should I depart this planet.

 

[Martiniblack577]

I think it's quite evident, in fact that is why things like the ladies stalking group on fb was created I believe from previous posts

Take this forum for a sample, majority are men, plenty of threads end up with sexist/homophobic/biggoted comments that I'm sure do nothing to encourage anyone of any other group to feel like they can participate

Hard to argue against your observations.

 

[Martiniblack577]

I would like to know where you get your evidence of women being better shooters physiologically, and being better fighter pilots and even more why you think they multitask better than men.
I remember years back reading the multitasking was a myth.
I would say were all fairly equal but of all the people I have taught to shoot, women tend to be less confident with higher calibres and struggled with the weight of the gun

Of course. All male shooters don’t struggle.

And I’m finding myself questioning your teaching capabilities based off the subconscious bias you clearly have.

And I do wonder if Stalin clearly had the same reservations with the 1m females he placed under arms…….doubtful…..