My post from October last year comparing images of the real and the cartoon Annie Oakley has been most popular for quite some time now.
83 years after her death, could Margaret Johnson, “a gun-toting grandmother who shot a man she says tried to mug her in her wheelchair“, be a modern day rival to the iconic sharpshooter Oakley?
Let’s compare: Johnson has “at least a dozen shooting trophies in her flat and says that she once shot a hole in a coin from 30 feet away”.
A claim to fame for sure but Oakley is on record for her talents with a .22 caliber rifle and “reputedly could split a playing card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground”. And that’s from 90 feet away.
I think Oakley takes the gold on this one but I wouldn’t want to be a mugger messing with the .357 Magnum-packing granny either!
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