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When Emily Shuford was 5 years old, her dad put a BB gun in her hands and took her hunting. Today, Shuford, 15, is one of the best junior skeet shooters in the state.
But then again, so are her two sisters.
Skeet was invented in 1915 and is a recreational and competitive activity where participants attempt to break clay disks flung into the air at high speed from a variety of angles, using a high quality, double-barreled shotgun.
Slight of frame and quite feminine, the Shuford sisters Emily; Brooke, 17; and Rachel, 13, have been competitive skeet shooting for about two years but have been holding guns since they were little girls.
“They were raised around guns,” said Dan Shuford, the girls’ father, an avid hunter who would take the family on hunting trips and teach his daughters gun safety and hunting techniques.
“All of them enjoyed the guns,” he said, though adding that he would have never guessed the girls would one day be shooting...
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