Sport: The Riflewoman

On the firing line at Camp Perry, Ohio, the pigtailed blonde in striped shorts wiggled comfortably into prone position on the tarp, and consulted a makeshift wind gauge built of a bent coat hanger, a spent cartridge shell and a bit of nylon hose. Then, tucking the butt of a .22-cal. Winchester Special into her right shoulder, she began perforating the nickel-sized bull's-eye in the target 50 yds. off. With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only can Lenore Jensen outshoot me," said one,...

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