When asked how he feels about his daughter using a gun, her father said, “I feel very comfortable because I know she’s been extraordinarily well-trained at how to be safe. Physically, a competitive shooter needs to have good hand and forearm strength, as well as the ability to handle the firearm’s sometimes-strong recoil. Shyanne’s natural talent turned into a passion and at 7, the young athlete started competing in local matches. He has custody of Shyanne and her younger brother. Dan Roberts is a certified firearms instructor and a single dad. After she could recite the rules and had grasped what guns can do, around age 6, her father started taking her to a gun range. The Franklinville, New Jersey, girl, who now has more than 20 sponsors, started learning gun safety when she was 5.
The top shooter has a chance to win $5,000, as well as items from a prize table of guns, ammo and more. Shyanne is the youngest competitive shooter registered at the female-only event, according to the match director.
On October 31, she will square off against 200 of the top women shooters at the Brownell’s Lady 3-Gun Pro-Am Challenge in Covington, Georgia. Last year, she beat out adult women to place second in the Women’s Division of the New Jersey Ruger Rimfire Challenge. Shyanne competes alongside junior shooters, who are participants younger than 18, and even adults. Shyanne shoots the custom AR15 she helped build.
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