Shooting Beryl Women had been banned from the Australian Rifle Club since 1936. Undaunted, Beryl Drynan Rogers, née Quinn, born 1915,  sights down the buckhorn sight of her pre-World War I Winchester Model 94 carbine, special lever-action repeating rifle, the first to use a smokeless powder round (the Winchester Center Fire).   After the Depression, short on funds, Army Defence discouraged women shooters— a waste of ammunition on non-combatants for practice, but many riflemen protested—women sharpshooters were part of Australia’s second line of defence— in any invasion, they would play a key role, no less important than men. Shooting Beryl…