Yes indeed, welcome to the new female hunter! Welcome both because you're new and because you're one of too few women who hunt.

RE: women hunting... Just a funny thing I ran across on the web a couple years back: I did a search looking for some blaze orange stuff and came across a web page for, I think, the Indiana DNR. It was a staff report or testimony at a public meeting or some such thing concerning blaze orange clothing. The point of the article was why not also allow flourescent pink clothing for safety because it is as visible (or maybe more so). The point was also made that because it was pink it might attract more women to hunting! I'd have to say the gals I know who like to hunt and fish (and hike and canoe and camp, etc. etc.) aren't exactly motivated by pink clothing. It's not that they don't like to look good, but they aren't "pink" type of women, in my experience. Just something funny I ran across.