Babes with Bullets
April 2004 Started
- Kay Miculek – head instructor
- Deb Ferns, a novice
- Lisa Munson, world and national handgun champion
- April 2004 – Nov 2019
About Babes with Bullets
Babes with Bullets was a women’s firearms training program, founded in 2004, that ran multi-day immersion camps taught by an all-female professional staff. It was co-founded by camp director Deb Ferns, who came to the shooting sports as a novice, and head instructor Kay Miculek, a several-time World Action Pistol Champion and 14-time national multi-gun champion. Ferns described the experience as part firearms training, part adventure camp and part pajama party. The three-day camps taught women to shoot handguns and rifles safely and confidently, and in 2010 the program added multi-gun training that introduced campers to rifle, pistol and shotgun competition skills.
Camps traveled to regional host ranges across the country. The 2012 schedule included Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan and Texas, and that season, the program’s eighth, closed at the Tucson Rifle Club with nearly three dozen campers from seven states. Babes with Bullets later hosted an annual women’s 3-Gun Challenge at The Shootout Range, owned by Kay and Jerry Miculek, near Shreveport, Louisiana. The program operated until November 2019. For fifteen years, Babes with Bullets gave women a welcoming, women-led path from first-time shooter to confident competitor.
Key Facts
- April 2004: Babes with Bullets holds its first camps
- 2010: Multi-gun training added to the camp program
- 2012: Eighth season includes camps in seven states, ending in Tucson
- May 19-20, 2018: Annual Babes with Bullets 3-Gun Challenge held near Shreveport, Louisiana
- November 2019: Program concludes
Sources
- Babes with Bullets Announces 2012 Women’s Action Shooting Camps – Outdoor Writers Association of America
- Babes with Bullets Closes Out Its 2012 Season – OutdoorHub
- Join Us for the 3rd Annual Babes with Bullets 3-Gun Challenge – AmmoLand
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