STARES of disbelief are all I get whenever I tell people - of both sexes - that shooting is a feminine sport. It is.
In fact, a woman who has never touched a firearm in her life before, given a proper shooting lesson and a medium caliber handgun, will outshoot in target practice a man of the same background who took the same lesson.
I've seen this happen countless of times in the firing range. But if somebody wants and manages to prove me wrong, the next 100 rounds of reloads are on me.
The pickup rate is faster with women because they tend to focus on the process of shooting - stance, grip, sight picture, sight alignment, breathing, trigger control and follow through - and good shooting is simply a product of all these.
Men, on the other hand, just want to get their shots off.
About the only advantage men have over women as they start out in shooting is physique. Because of the male person's heavier build, he is less sensitive to recoil and can sprint faster.
But even this isn't established. Body mass differ and an athletic lady can outrun a potbellied Dick any given Sunday.
Likewise, this only matters in IPSC where shooters, excluding those in Production, are required to make Major. IPSC competitions have five divisions and four require shooters to use ammunition that pass a given flooring rate.
Shooting, according to one authority, is among the very few sporting events where women and men, when they finally get the process right, can compete on equal terms.
And for a woman walking in the dark, damp and dangerous streets of the real world, being on equal ground makes all the difference.
In 1999, the World Shoot was held in Cebu City and the Ladies world title went to a petite Filipina by the name of Atheena Lee (photo above).
When the trienial games was held again in 2002, in Pietersburg, South Africa, the world title went to another Filipina by the name of Kaye Cabalatungan . We lost it in 2005, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Gabriele Kraushofer of Austria.
that shooting is a feminine sport. 
