Teaching Women to Shoot: A Law Enforcement Instructor's Guide

by Vicki Farnam and Diane Nicholl

Index

"Average" woman and man
Accidents
Ammunition control
Anxiety and performance stress
Brains, differences between male and female
Caliber and accuracy
Continuous trigger contact drill
Dominant eye
Finger in register
Firearm safety
Fit, how to fit a handgun
    Rifle
    Shotgun
Follow-through
Front sight placement problems
Grip
    When the gun is too large
    When the gun is too small
    When the gun fits
Grip problems and solutions
Hand sizes and shapes
Holsters
Launch platform
Locking the slide open
Mental focus
Motivation
Negative attitudes
Operating systems
Recoil pain
Recoil noise and startle response
Remedial training
Responsibility
Safety rules
Safety equipment
Sight alignment
Sight alignment problems and solutions
Snap cap drill
Spatial relationships and sight alignment problems
Spatial Skills
Speed of the draw
Tears
Thumbs up grip
Trigger control
Trigger control problems and solutions
Trigger finger strength
Verbal skills
Weaver stance

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