Oxford (OH) Press: New shooter identifies with Annie Oakley

This column doesn't address concealed carry reform, but should serve as a reminder that we all would do well to offer non-shooters the opportunity to try it out. All too often, it's a much better "converter" than facts, figures, and anecdotal stories about crime and defenselessness.

By Andrea Might
OXFORD PRESS

I never realized how much I have in common with Annie Oakley.

A resident of nearby Darke County, Phoebe Moses, better known as Annie Oakley, was best known for her expertise with guns and rifles when she was alive in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

However, I never knew Oakley was also a writer, according to a story about her that ran in the Greenville Daily Advocate on Nov. 4, 1926, shortly after she died.

[And] although I am not a hunter or an expert with a rifle, as Oakley was, I had the chance to hold and shoot a gun for the first time on Easter Sunday while visiting with my future in-laws in New Paris.

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