Year: 2024

Successful Firearm Training: The Classroom Experience

By North American Outdoors / November 18, 2024 / Comments Off on Successful Firearm Training: The Classroom Experience

Are you an NRA Certified Instructor? Enhance your students’ journeys by incorporating a variety teaching methods and effectively communicating with them. Successful Firearm Training: The Classroom Experience – NRA Women.com More and more people are exploring their options to purchase a firearm for the very first time—and many of them did not grow up in…

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Four 1lb rifle exploding targets.

UNDERSTANDING TANNERITE

By North American Outdoors / November 6, 2024 / Comments Off on UNDERSTANDING TANNERITE

By Heidi Lyn Rao UNDERSTANDING TANNERITE If you are a shooter in today’s world, you have either posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) or TikTok, or you have at least watched, liked, or followed the latest and trending shooting videos. You may even be talented enough to record and upload your own videos and…

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3 More Ways for Parents to Reinforce Gun Safety in the Home

By North American Outdoors / November 4, 2024 / Comments Off on 3 More Ways for Parents to Reinforce Gun Safety in the Home

Have kids and guns? Don’t be passive. Do your part so your children are safe in and out of your home.  3 More Ways for Parents to Reinforce Gun Safety in the Home – NRA Women.com When you decide to keep a firearm in the home for protection, and there are children present, extra precautions…

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NRA Instructors: The Basics of Making a Good First Impression

By North American Outdoors / October 28, 2024 / Comments Off on NRA Instructors: The Basics of Making a Good First Impression

The perception students have of their instructor and the classroom can set the tone for the whole day, so here’s how to make it count! NRA Instructors: The Basics of Making a Good First Impression – NRA Women.com Planning a basic NRA Firearm Training course can be time-consuming for an instructor—even just responding to inquiries about the…

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Who is the Non-Gun-Owner?

By North American Outdoors / October 24, 2024 / Comments Off on Who is the Non-Gun-Owner?

Just because some people do not own a firearm doesn’t mean they are anti-gun—or unable to change their minds. Here are a few ways we can earn their support. Who is the Non-Gun-Owner? – NRA Women.com Just because a person does not own a gun—a non-gun owner—does not necessarily mean that his or she is…

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Know Your Metallic Cartridge Cases

By North American Outdoors / October 14, 2024 / Comments Off on Know Your Metallic Cartridge Cases

The metallic case cartridge is one of the most important firearm components that is not part of the gun! Know Your Metallic Cartridge Cases – NRA Women.com Without the metallic cartridge case, self-contained cartridges could not exist. We would still be in the cap-and-ball era. It was the metallic case that made it possible to…

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Understanding the 3 Types of Reloading Presses

By North American Outdoors / October 8, 2024 / Comments Off on Understanding the 3 Types of Reloading Presses

What was once an exclusively male activity is now seeing increased participation by more women. Understanding the 3 Types of Reloading Presses – NRA Women.com The most important piece of equipment in reloading metallic cartridges or shotshells is a reloading press, because it is what puts all the pieces that make up a cartridge together.…

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Planning Your Deer Hunt: Know the Signs

By North American Outdoors / October 7, 2024 / Comments Off on Planning Your Deer Hunt: Know the Signs

Learn the six signs that deer hunters need to know when scouting their planned hunt area. Planning Your Deer Hunt: Know the Signs – NRA Women.com The number of women who hunt is increasing every year. More and more women are venturing into the field of deer hunting alone, or with the companionship of other…

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7 Easy Steps to Reloading

By North American Outdoors / October 6, 2024 / Comments Off on 7 Easy Steps to Reloading

Reloading is a safe and enjoyable hobby, as long as you take your time and follow the recommended safe lengths and powder loads found in reliable reloading manuals. 7 Easy Steps to Reloading – NRA Women.com Reloading can help reduce the costs associated with shooting. If you shoot a lot, reloading will help you save…

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Bison herd grazing near stream and mountains.

Women in the (Traditionally) Male Dominated Outdoors

By North American Outdoors / October 4, 2024 / Comments Off on Women in the (Traditionally) Male Dominated Outdoors

THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF HOUSTON SAFARI CLUB FOUNDATION • FALL 2024 WOMEN IN THE (TRADITIONALLY) MALE-DOMINATED OUTDOORSBY HEIDI LYN RAO I have spent my entire adult life in what has traditionally been a male-dominated world as it relates to firearms. With degrees in Wildlife Management and Forestry, I graduated college and went straight into the…

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