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Women bond over handguns and dinner at Frogbones in Melbourne
Eyes and ears on. A steady squeeze of the trigger. A muffled explosion marked by muzzle flash sends a round into the target four yards away. Another and another, until the poster is pockmarked with holes.
Mari Hiltz turns around with a wide smile, pleased with the results.
Hiltz, 62, of Melbourne, is a new member of A Girl & A Gun Women’s Shooting League, a national club by and for women that advocates firearms education and competition.
On this particular evening, the club is meeting at FrogBones Family Shooting Center along auto dealer row on U.S. 1 in Melbourne. It’s Girls Night Out and members have trickled in from their job and family duties.
Standing beside her in Lane 3 of the indoor gun range is LuAnn Moyer, facilitator of A Girl & A Gun Space Coast FL, the local chapter to which they belong.
Hiltz has been a member for about a week at this point and has arrived with beginner jitters. Moyer talks her through practice with a style that is hands-on and cordial, yet authoritative.
The first six lanes are dedicated to “the girls” and gunfire comes both intermittently and in tight groupings. Mandatory safety equipment consists of goggles (eyes) and noise-blocking earmuffs (ears), as well as a cap.
Hiltz and Moyer are joined by eight other women in the earlier of two groups who first sit through a safety briefing before heading out to the range.
“It’s the same safety stuff every time. There are new people each time, plus we don’t want to get complacent,” Moyer said, adding, “We spend about 15 minutes on the safety briefing and introductions and then about 5:30 p.m. we head over to the range and we start the shooting time.”
Moyer, 55, of Melbourne, said they pack up the gear and head back in about an hour later so the second group gets its range time. Some go home and some settle in for dinner and drinks at the facility’s full-service restaurant, Double Tapp Grill. Yes, guests can order alcohol but no, not before shooting.
FrogBones, named in honor of Navy frogmen, reached out to the women’s market the moment doors opened in 2015. It helped that the club’s original facilitator, Stephanie Ollikanen, worked at FrogBones at the time. The first chapter meeting was held within a week of the range’s opening.
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Women bond over handguns and dinner at Frogbones in Melbourne
Eyes and ears on. A steady squeeze of the trigger. A muffled explosion marked by muzzle flash sends a round into the target four yards away. Another and another, until the poster is pockmarked with holes.
Mari Hiltz turns around with a wide smile, pleased with the results.
Hiltz, 62, of Melbourne, is a new member of A Girl & A Gun Women’s Shooting League, a national club by and for women that advocates firearms education and competition.
On this particular evening, the club is meeting at FrogBones Family Shooting Center along auto dealer row on U.S. 1 in Melbourne. It’s Girls Night Out and members have trickled in from their job and family duties.
Standing beside her in Lane 3 of the indoor gun range is LuAnn Moyer, facilitator of A Girl & A Gun Space Coast FL, the local chapter to which they belong.
Hiltz has been a member for about a week at this point and has arrived with beginner jitters. Moyer talks her through practice with a style that is hands-on and cordial, yet authoritative.
The first six lanes are dedicated to “the girls” and gunfire comes both intermittently and in tight groupings. Mandatory safety equipment consists of goggles (eyes) and noise-blocking earmuffs (ears), as well as a cap.
Hiltz and Moyer are joined by eight other women in the earlier of two groups who first sit through a safety briefing before heading out to the range.
“It’s the same safety stuff every time. There are new people each time, plus we don’t want to get complacent,” Moyer said, adding, “We spend about 15 minutes on the safety briefing and introductions and then about 5:30 p.m. we head over to the range and we start the shooting time.”
Moyer, 55, of Melbourne, said they pack up the gear and head back in about an hour later so the second group gets its range time. Some go home and some settle in for dinner and drinks at the facility’s full-service restaurant, Double Tapp Grill. Yes, guests can order alcohol but no, not before shooting.
FrogBones, named in honor of Navy frogmen, reached out to the women’s market the moment doors opened in 2015. It helped that the club’s original facilitator, Stephanie Ollikanen, worked at FrogBones at the time. The first chapter meeting was held within a week of the range’s opening.
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Women bond over handguns and dinner at Frogbones in Melbourne
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