Tips for getting started:

• We are each responsible for our own personal safety.
• A criminal will try to remove his biggest obstacle first—and that will most likely be any man. For women, that leaves you to protect yourself.
• You should be getting very serious about that plan in which you learn more about self-defense--the one where you learn how to use (or get better with) that great equalizer—the firearm.
• Insist on proper training with a pro. Start with firearm safety. Then work your way into marksmanship, gun handling and other elements crucial to being able to use that tool for self-defense.
• Make sure you and your trainer spend time on skills you'll need to get you through a crisis. Manipulation or gun handling encompasses everything from being able to reload quickly when you run the gun empty to clearing stoppages, figuring out where and how you're going to carry and how to get the gun out from where it is stored.

Il Ling New, born in San Francisco and a Yale graduate with an MBA, turned her back on a lucrative marketing career in favor of teaching people self-protection, how to handle firearms, and hunting. She is America's No. 1 female firearms instructor, No. 1 female freelance guide, and has hunted across the hemisphere and to Africa numerous times, including for Cape buffalo, and trains hunters from across the hemisphere prior to world-class expeditions. She has hunted ducks in California since age 10. As an instructor, she has had a profound influence on people across America, and has even taught Marines, police, as well as housewives and hunters of all backgrounds. Her skills are world renown, with a handgun small enough to fit in her tiny palm, she can put 3 shots in a pie plate in 5 seconds, competed nationally for skeet titles, and is versed as an expert in all rifles. She is the best at what she does, but has also had a stunning influence to improve others skills from across America.

America's No. 1 female firearms instructor and hunting guide - 2012