Have you heard of Annie Oakley?

[TargetSportsUSA]

Annie Oakley: The best female sharpshooter in history? You decide!

Annie Oakley: The Sharpshooting Star of the Wild West - Target Sports USA

In the heart of the Wild West, where echoes of gunshots filled the air, there lived a remarkable woman whose skill with a firearm made her a legend of the frontier. This is the story of Phoebe Ann Mosey, better known as “Little Sure Shot,” Annie Oakley, the sharpshooting star who defied societal...

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[LakeTrout]

Everyone’s heard of that broad

 

[MadatMarek]

The elbows, the hair is a dead giveaway to a monstrous fur diaper guilty as charged!

 

[IPSC_DRL]

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Great song by Sweet about her, also a play.

 

[Picton]

I just asked my class. 13/17 had never heard of Annie Oakley, and only one kid could confidently express who she was.

These are mostly seniors in a very advanced class.

We are doomed.

 

[TargetSportsUSA]

I just asked my class. 13/17 had never heard of Annie Oakley, and only one kid could confidently express who she was.

These are mostly seniors in a very advanced class.

We are doomed.

Have them read the blog and write a report!

 

[namedpipes]

We had a (teen) NES member going by AbbieOakley. She decimated some of the cars during the shoots a while back.

 

[thesyguy]

Annie Oakley: The best female sharpshooter in history? You decide!

Annie Oakley: The Sharpshooting Star of the Wild West - Target Sports USA

In the heart of the Wild West, where echoes of gunshots filled the air, there lived a remarkable woman whose skill with a firearm made her a legend of the frontier. This is the story of Phoebe Ann Mosey, better known as “Little Sure Shot,” Annie Oakley, the sharpshooting star who defied societal...

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Was just listening to a podcast about Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West shows back in the late 1800's. He recruited Annie Oakley to join his show and it became much more popular once she came aboard.

 

[Lucus]

NRA Family | Throwback Thursday: Annie Oakley's Guns

She may only have been 5 feet tall, but this shooter's shadow is a century long.

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[SKumar]

I just asked my class. 13/17 had never heard of Annie Oakley, and only one kid could confidently express who she was.

These are mostly seniors in a very advanced class.

We are doomed.

Ask them if they can name all the Kardashians

 

[not new guy]

She’s the one who makes those sick sunglasses.

 

[Picton]

Ask them if they can name all the Kardashians

You're about 4-6 years late for the Kardashians. They're all into Swift and Kelce now.

Only 10/17 knew who Jesse Owens was, and although all but four of them had heard of Amelia Earhart, only one knew anything she'd done. Most of the rest associated her with getting "eaten by crabs."

I try to avoid asking them things like that. They always disappoint me. I blame the middle school model of early-adolescent learning, which delays them from having to actually know stuff.

 

[AJK129]

I just asked my class. 13/17 had never heard of Annie Oakley, and only one kid could confidently express who she was.

These are mostly seniors in a very advanced class.

We are doomed.

Shes the one who flew across the Pacific right?

 

[Picton]

Shes the one who flew across the Pacific right?

Matter of fact, I just posted about precisely that. Lol.

 

[Matt_SERE]

Is she related to the long ago NES Member @AbbyOakley ? Who I hope has continued on in the shooting sports and kicking ass. IYKYK

 

[not new guy]

 

[Sweeney]

Shes the one who flew across the Pacific right?

Part way. She stopped on an island to shoot coconut crabs for pina-coladas then got lost on her way home.

 

[Len-2A Training]

We had a (teen) NES member going by AbbieOakley. She decimated some of the cars during the shoots a while back.

Is she related to the long ago NES Member @AbbyOakley ? Who I hope has continued on in the shooting sports and kicking ass. IYKYK

Abby is an NRA Instructor. She's married and as far as I know she's still shooting.

 

[namedpipes]

Is she related to the long ago NES Member @AbbyOakley ? Who I hope has continued on in the shooting sports and kicking ass. IYKYK

Yes. My Mad Cow kicked in and I misspelled

Abby is an NRA Instructor. She's married and as far as I know she's still shooting.

That's a great update. I know she went to an indoctrination camp (college) and am glad she didn't go to the dark side.

 

[CRSIII]

Abby is an NRA Instructor. She's married and as far as I know she's still shooting.

Gawd we’re old.

 

[Len-2A Training]

Gawd we’re old.

Tell me about it! One of the NU Co-Op students that I hired when she was 18 yo recently posted that she's considering retiring!!

 

[hminsky]

Our elementary school put on Annie Get Your Gun as the school play in 1976 or so. Probably kids using prop rifles would put the school on lockdown today.