Women's Outdoors

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has announced it is seeking to ban commonplace 5.56 M855 ball ammunition  as “armor piercing ammunition.” If you have not already done so, all industry employees, target shooters and gun owners should contact your Member of Congress AND the ATF to oppose this unnecessary ban, which is truly a solution in search of a problem and that raises serious questions about executive agency attitude and overreach. Stopped cold on Capitol Hill, this action appears to be the Obama administration’s attempt to pursue gun control by other means.

Lea Leggitt, intern at Women’s Outdoor News, loved being backstage and on the red carpet at the Outdoor Channel’s Golden Moose Awards. She created a series of interviews, based on the theme of “Mentoring the Next Generation,” for her short interview time with each leading outdoor personality. In this installment, Lea talks to Katie Pavlich.

If you’re looking for a way to introduce more women to the concept of shooting a firearm and carrying concealed, you might consider hosting a holster fashion show, which, as we found last weekend at the Firearm and Fashion Expo in Branson, Mo., appeared to be a great way to educate and entertain. The weekend’s events felt the brunt of yet another winter snow and ice storm that swiftly moved into the southwestern portion of the Ozarks on Friday afternoon and basically shut down travel.

The USA Shooting Shotgun Team wasted no time in picking right up where it left off in 2014. In Acapulco, Mexico for the start of the 2015 International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup series, Corey Cogdell-Unrein and Kayle Browning supplied the opening-day highlights Monday with a gold medal, a fourth-place finish and the most important reward of all, an Olympic quota in Women’s Trap.  Brian Burrows came through Tuesday with a finals entry and an eventual sixth-place finish.

You know you gotta do it. Clean those guns, Girl. The Well Armed Woman is offering you an excuse to shop for cleaning supplies with its “spring cleaning sale,” where you can get 15% off its line of WONderful cleaning products.

Find out more about this sale, and while you’re there, check out TWAW’s blog, holster collection and helpful tips for becoming a skilled and trained firearms shooter. Code: MARCH.

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While Project Appleseed holds events on weekends all over the country, all year long, the upcoming weekend of April 18th and 19th is special. In order to honor this, perhaps the most important date in American history, we hold special rifle marksmanship events we call the “Patriot’s Day Event”.

March 3, 2015 (Rochester, NY) – LaserMax, producer of the world’s most rugged laser sighting and illumination tools for firearms, today announced the appointment of Shari-Lynn Fix as Director of Distribution and International Sales.

HOUSTON, Texas – Team Comp-Tac’s Randi Rogers won her seventh consecutive Indoor National Ladies Championship title at the Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship held February 25-28 in Springfield, Massachusetts. With her final time of 247.46 seconds, Rogers finished ninth Master in the Stock Service Pistol Division where she competed with a Smith & Wesson M&P Pro pistol.

Lea Leggitt continues her winning streak on the red carpet at the Golden Moose awards last January. Her series, “Mentoring the Next Generation,” includes several outdoor celebrities who also are excellent role models for young women. In this installment, she talks to Theresa Vail.

HOUSTON, Texas — Comp-Tac Victory Gear is now offering the popular appendix carry, hybrid holster, The Neutral Cant, with a black leather backing.

Marti Davis Afield recently spent 2 days in Nashville at the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Sport Show and Convention, searching for some cool new products to take out with her this turkey hunting season.

So many of my friends know Tiffany Lakosky. She is the star of Crush, with Lee and Tiffany on the Outdoor Channel, along with her husband, Lee. She is expecting their first child any day now. As you can imagine, I felt super excited when she took the time to talk to me at the Golden Moose Awards. She was one of the sweetest people there.

In this Throwback Thursday (#TbT) feature, you’ll find 4 Must-Haves for Turkey Hunting.

In the off-season, the road-hunting theme (“Don’t worry, we’re shooting cameras!”) seems to gain traction for LG and me. We do a lot of driving to and from school, and see a lot of animals. We tend to leave early in the hope of seeing something good to take a picture of.

Christine Clayton is the winner of the 2015 Ohio Duck Stamp art competition that was held a few days ago. Her accomplishment is noteworthy because she is the first female winner Ohio has had since the program began in 1982. She is also the youngest artist (20) to win the Ohio stamp competition.

(Ohio Division of Wildlife photo)

Christine is from Sidney, Ohio, and painted the wood ducks that will be featured on the Ohio stamp. The competition was open to artists from all over the country.

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The Red Bull X-Alps is the world’s toughest adventure race. It’s a bold claim – but one it surely deserves. It’s difficult to think of another race that demands such a high level of fitness and technical skill – or lasts so long. This year, 2 female athletes will compete in this race: Yvonne Dathe and Dawn Westrun. It’s the first time in a decade that women have participated in this adventure race.

Competitive shooter Maggie Reese made several appearances in the Colt firearms booth at the 2015 Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT) in Las Vegas this January. Prior to one of her appearances, Maggie and I sat on the floor in a cluttered storage area for an informal chat.

Our guest-post share comes, once again, from our pals over at Camo is the New Black, a hip blog that features hunting and fishing stories for and about women. The site’s proprietor, Whitney Tawney, interviewed Erin Gabriel Kane, the proprietor of Flyvines. Erin’s business recycles old fishing line to make braided lanyards, bracelets , coasters, dogleashes and more. Because we love a good old-fashioned American apple pie entrepreneurial tale, we have highlighted this one. We think you’ll like it, too, and let us know if you “wind up” purchasing any of these items and what you think.