This year for International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the outdoors and those who make it a better place for all. We want to shine a spotlight on some amazing women in the outdoors – leaders, role models, mentors, mothers, sisters, and daughters – by sharing their stories, words of advice and encouragement for other women. We want to uplift and empower all the women who share the outdoors. One of the women we are proud to call our friend at Savage is Susan Andersen. This is her story!

Susan Andersen

My name is Susan Andersen and I live on the AZ/Mexico border in southern Arizona.   As a woman shooter over 60 who is also a federal firearms dealer, gun shop owner and firearms instructor, my goal is to be an inspiration to all women regardless of age and show that the sport of shooting is all inclusive and one of camaraderie, empowerment, and sisterhood. 

When a domestic violence survivor tells me she is no longer afraid to go out alone or having a 75-year-old woman excitedly tell me that “she is living her extra life” after teaching her to shoot, I know my passion in what I do makes a difference in people’s lives.  

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