I've noticed the same thing. I have a female friend who had never fired a gun in her life until last spring, when she decided she wanted me to take her to the range. Last time we were out shooting, she put five of her first six shots of the day in a nice round 3-inch group dead center in the A zone of an IPSC target at 15 yards, with an iron sighted P99, shooting the first round DA (I never bothered to explain to her that there's any other way to do it, so she just took to the DA-SA transition naturally along with everything else). She dropped one in the middle of the string a few inches low but recovered and put the last 3 right in with the first 2. For her there's no ego involved, it's just an enjoyably challenging mind-body exercise like yoga.
Last edited by OfficeCat; 04-16-2021 at 11:52 AM.
Women are typically better shots then men, at first. Shooting is still seen as a traditionally "manly" thing. Consequently, most men bring egos and mental hang ups to the mix that women don't. Men may be embarrassed to suck, because they may seem like less of a man, or they don't want to take instruction because they want to show everyone how alpha they are. Women are just a sponge and know how to shut up and listen. The challenges with teaching women come at the intermediate and advanced levels. Men and women process information in different ways and the more nuanced the information becomes the more those differences come into play.
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.......
Definitely ego is the thing that gets in the way of most people’s shooting progress.
I have seen that in some women too.
And seen the absence of that in many men.
I've long accepted than any further resistance to dots on my part is petulance garnered from the amount of time I spent mastering the nuances of iron sights, time that would have been unnecessary had dots developed 10 years earlier.
When I tested back to back on carry guns, I was just better with a dot so I’m pretty much all dots and just use irons for 22LR practice to so I can still do it.
In 10 years all slides will be optics ready from the factory.