AT HOME ON THE RANGE:

It’s a cloudy Saturday in August. What’s a woman to do?

Yesterday, the answer for 45 women was: Leave the men at home, head for the hills of Loudoun County and learn to shoot. . . .

That’s a typical story, organizers said. Women, they said, are increasingly interested in shooting sports and hunting, and they prefer to learn without men around. Since the federation began offering memberships to its Women in the Outdoors program in 1998, the number of workshops offered annually has grown from 18 to 480 last year. Nearly 50,000 women are members of the program.

I keep seeing stories like this.