In a bit of interesting news, Jessie Duff (of Team Taurus) recently became the first female USPSA Grandmaster.
On the last run of the classifier calculator Jessie's 100% on CM 99-23 (Front Sight) put her over a 95% average in Open, making her the first woman to ever reach the rank of Grandmaster in USPSA. This raises a couple of interesting questions: first question is who's next? The second question is whether or not this is going to open the floodgates on women getting their GM cards; not too long ago a female Russian IPSC shooter won all of the Production division in the East Asia champion, which is a legitimate accomplishment as well.
With a couple of notable exceptions, the trend in shooting sports has been towards shooters who approach shooting as a sport and train athletically in addition to working their trigger fingers out. So with Jessie breaking the GM barrier, will other women shooters in the sport be similarly motivated to kick their training into high gear and get their GM cards?