Well....

I bought a bolt-action .22 rifle back in the early 1990s. Disassembled it and took it over to show my brother. Put it back together at his house, he looked it over and said, "Good gun!" (the standard answer). Then his two oldest boys (in there late teens) asked to take a look. Okay, they passed it back and I started to take it apart when my sister said, "Let me see."

And the two boys got that look that said, "This will be funny 'cause what can a girl know about guns???"

So, knowing that my mother had required all her kids to learn gun safety and to shoot well, I closed the bolt, shoved in the magazine, and passed it over. There were, of course, silent snickers from the boys.

She pulled the magazine, opened the bolt to insure it wasn't loaded ("Treat every gun as if it were a loaded gun until you personally have proven otherwise"), looked through the 'scope, checked again to insure that it wasn't loaded and looked down the barrel to check the rifling with her little fingernail inserted at the breech to reflect light, brought the rifle back, closed the bolt, clicked the trigger, inserted the magazine, and handed it back with the comment, "Good gun!"

As two teen-aged jaws remained on the floor I broke the gun down and put it back into the locked case.

Every one of my nieces can outshoot their brothers and male cousins. My sister could outshoot her brothers. My wife can outshoot me with both pistol and rifle. None of them choose to shoot much, but I've experienced their sharpshooting and believe me, they're good shots.