Music Come on in you guys, let's check it out Music Music Music I'm Mike and Sam, thank you to Sam of the amazing speakers and the structures that we have always begun And so excited about it We have the amazing Terry Fall Music To even give, you sit very still, try not to move when I look at you That's giving me some information I'm going to raise tomorrow Be phenomenally amazing, it'll believe you So I'm going to give you a direction, this is no guns This is simply footwork, this is dancing with the stars Music Music Music I am here setting up for the Armed Women of America Regional Conference in Utah Ladies are here to learn to either shoot for the first time or some of these ladies are experienced shooters and are actually chapter leaders in their respective communities So we come here, we train together, we learn together, we all get empowered and we have so much fun while we're doing it I'm Marty Stone-Syford, National Program Director of Armed Women of America We're out here this weekend and teaching women to be their own self-protectors So we have courses from RIPL, shotgun, handgun, all sorts of things So they can come out here and learn, so they can go home and feel more confident about what they're doing and they can protect themselves I'm Jen O'Harran, I'm the owner and co-founder of Girls with Guns Clothing We just finished teaching and learning in advanced holster class It's been a lot of fun here and all of the ladies were able to take something away today They're building a foundation and the goal today was to teach them something that they can take home and learn from and continue to grow in their firearms training Today I found that all the ladies are at different levels and different strengths And what's really important is that we work together to make sure that we're safe and that we're building on these fundamentals And I've seen each and every one of them grow today and I think that's the most important part to me I've been coming to Armed Women of America for the past seven years and been a part of this organization They've really helped me to grow as someone who is in the industry building clothing for women And learning what each woman needs and I think what's really important is that we see different women of different ages, body types And we continue to learn from them because they tell us a little bit about what they like And that is how we are able to make our product better So the best way to handle this, do I want to be back here where the door is going to open on meat? 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I feel like I'm in a really bad position So observing how the door goes before I open it is critical So we have women to all experience levels, new shooters, experienced shooters All that want to learn different things, drawing from a holster, some that are learning more about marksmanship All different types of things, we're really building all of them up so that they can continue on their own personal journey And you may have done this before, many many of you have, we don't get to do it all that often So we can take advantage of this wonderful range This is going to be drawing on movements and then moving to your barricade shooting spot Our Women of America is really about making women be armed, brave and confident So we want to send them out with all the tools that they need to be ready to go out in their everyday environment You want to get back here, you want to have good contact with the buttstock of the rifle Into the pocket of your shoulder without cranking on this Jen and I do a lot of shooting together because we both shoot for Team Ruger And we've had a lot of opportunity to shoot together with pistols, with rifles, and even on hunting trips Some of the big takeaways today I think that the ladies may be discovered for the first time that they've shot rifles before But hadn't necessarily realized is that each rifle is so unique in how it fits with each individual person And one of the reasons I love shooting Ruger rifles is because they make firearms for everyone In this situation today they're shooting Ruger precision rimfire rifles that have not only an adjustable length of pull But they also have an adjustable sheet comb height and spacing So these ladies can really get behind the fire arm figure out where their length of pull is And then make sure that they have proper eye relief so that they get a full field of view in their optic Night Force was so gracious to send optics for all these ladies And Jason was here from Night Force co-teaching with me So they were here with a tremendous advantage over a lot of people that maybe don't realize that they're struggling with attaining A proper sight picture because their length of pull is off or maybe they don't understand why their cross hairs Don't quite look crisp enough and don't understand parallax So they were able to learn all of these fundamentals today So when they go home and they get behind the rifles at home they understand how to get that rifle to fit them better How to operate their optics more effectively and how to be more successful downrange which was ultimately our goal The first part of our course we spent basically just getting the rifle to be an extension of each lady So fit field function making sure it was perfect for them We got the ladies in the prone position and they learned how to manipulate a rear support And use that to help them get really steady on target and control their rifle radical on the target In the afternoon we were able to get out of the probe which is way more fun in my opinion Especially for ladies that have interest in going hunting We have a lot of gals that we're here that we're interested in becoming first time hunters Are we looking forward to hunting or had already been hunting and just wanted to improve on their craft So they were able to shoot standing modified prone Some of the ladies later on in the day were able to shoot sitting And it just really opened up the landscape of opportunity for them So when they get in the field they're more comfortable with getting in and out of these shooting positions Assessing their limitations and ultimately being more successful We were blessed by Ruger firearms that they donated 10 of the Ruger Max 9's for us to use This recently launched pistol that is amazing with its concilability as well as its functionality It's also incredibly accurate and we saw that today We had women who were shooting it and loved this gun I learned that more contact with the rifle is better pushing forward just a little bit Maintain that recoil, made all the difference It's so much fun just plinking at all the different levels And learning the prone position, love it Yeah it was awesome I've never shot like this before and I had a fantastic time Ruger, thank you Ruger are great confidence Thanks for watching