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Guns: Human Interest...

She's 5'4" tall and instructs big game hunters! From the SF Chronicle:

Prescott, Ariz. -- The gunman slinked up a ravine, hunting for Cape buffalo amid the junipers. A single bead of sweat trickled from his right temple and down his cheek. At his shoulder, Il Ling New, the shooter's mentor, crept alongside, unconsciously fingering the exposed tips of rifle cartridges slotted in her gun belt. "See him?" she whispered. The gunman hesitated for a moment and then dropped to prone. "Got him."

New locks in with a rangefinder: "398 yards." The shooter steadied his rifle for only a moment, just as he had been trained by New, and then pulled the trigger. The blast boomed across the hills. An instant later, the ring of lead hitting metal echoed back.

"Got him," New said. The gunman was Greg Rodriguez of Texas, preparing for a trip to Africa, taking his final exam in an advanced rifle course. The target was a metal plate.

The teacher was New of San Francisco, a Yale grad with a master's degree in business who ran the Pacific Rim operations of one of the world's largest advertising agencies. She now teaches self-protection, how to handle guns, and big-game hunting. Her clients include CIA and Secret Service agents, SWAT teams and Navy SEALs, as well as hunters, housewives and children. She also freelances as a self-protection specialist and hunting guide across the country.
Her smile could melt steel, yet New, a petite 5-foot-4, with a miniature handgun in her palm, can pop two shots in three seconds at 100 yards into an 8-inch pie plate -- or your head.

As a "poor, naive California kid at Yale," New was robbed with a gun jammed in her back. Now as an expert in self-defense, she is the first female staff instructor at Gunsite Academy, the top firearms training school in America.