I think a lot of ladies shoot well because they have no reason to worry about whether or not they will. Some guys, maybe a LOT of guys, feel it is a failure of their manhood if they don't shoot a sub-MOA group or bang the gong at 300 yards. Women don't think like that...they just follow whatever instruction they've learned and do their best, with little consideration if they don't do particularly well. For many, this leads to a good deal of success.
My wife has not shot 1/100th of the rounds I have, but when she shoots a scoped rifle, her groups are often just as good, and yes...sometimes better, than mine. The difference is, it actually matters, to me! She really couldn't care less if her group is 1.8", or .800"...game can only get just so dead and she has no plans to shoot at 300 yards, anyway. The expectations she has of herself are less, so she feels little, if any, "pressure". Sometimes, I really think she's onto something!
She likes being praised for shooting well, but relatively speaking, it means less to her than if I said the cake she decorated looks really good. I'm very proud of how accomplished she's becoming as an outdoors-woman, but I understand that shooting tight groups will never be all that important to her, as a part of her choice to be a hunter. In some ways, I'm glad that she's better at it than she realizes...she never rubs it in when she shoots better than me.
