At Girls Guide to Guns, one of our favorite things to do is (obviously) shoot firearms. We admit, it can be intimidating to go to a range and shoot guns by yourself, or even with your favorite guy friend. The ladies of DIVA WOW have made it possible for women to get together in groups and shoot, as discussed in the below article from the Boston Herald.
And just as these women, we love shooting with our fellow female friends – it offers a great way to learn more about firearms, get in some female bonding, and overall feel empowered about shooting! We’ll be arranging some shooting meet-ups in the future to get to know our fans and get in some shooting time with y’all; if you’d like one in your area, leave a comment or send us a message here.
DALLAS. When Judy Rhodes founded a group more than a decade ago to encourage women to shoot and hunt, her own outsized personality guaranteed that members would be a force to be reckoned with in the outdoors.
The group – DIVA … Women Outdoors Worldwide, or DIVA WOW - now counts more than 1,500 members around the world. Rhodes, the daughter of a Texas rancher who learned how to handle a BB gun at age 4, said that about half of the women who join also have strong outdoors backgrounds, while the other half haven’t picked up a gun before.
“That was just second nature to me to see a shotgun or a rifle in the gun rack,” said Rhodes, a feisty blonde with a Southern accent. “Whenever something slithers, crawls or hops, you’ve got to pop it.”
The group offers clinics and seminars in fishing, archery, dog training and how to handle handguns, shotguns and even an AR-15. They also organize hunts all over the world.
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