The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis

Author:Cheryl Jarvis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345509475
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

ON THE SHOOTING RANGE, twenty targets are lined up at fifty feet. Mary puts on protective glasses and earmuffs. She and Stephanie alternate taking aim. Rendina talks and teaches all the while.

“The best sharpshooters are women,” he says. “Their heart and respiratory rates are slower than men’s, so they’re steadier.”

Mary fires off a total of twenty-three rounds. She shoots one-handed, two-handed, right-handed, and left-handed. She varies the angle of her stance. Though none of her shots hits the black center, every one of them lands within the score rings.

After the shooting ends for the morning, Rendina walks up to each of the twenty targets to peer closely at the markings. “As for consistency,” he concludes, “Mary’s target is the best one out here.”

“Shooting invigorates me,” she says afterward, elegantly sipping from a can of diet Pepsi. “I’d love to shoot every weekend. It’s a wonderful sport. I could never get the women of Jewelia to do this, but wouldn’t it be fun to go out with your girlfriends and shoot guns?”

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