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**Peregrino** · 12-29-2008, 14:49

I'm glad to see a few people taking a realistic attitude towards competitive shooting. It is fun. It is also challenging and, if approached with an open mind and personal discipline, it CAN be a quality training experience. You get out of it what you put in it. If all you see is the "game", I can just about guarantee you won't gain much from the experience. OTOH, if you bring realistic expectations and concentrate on fundamentals (efficiency, i.e. economy of motion and accuracy, i.e the basics of marksmanship) you cannot help but improve your skills.

NTM - When you find yourself on a two-way range, it's a little late to discover you can't shoot when stressed. Competition may be artificially induced stress but it's better than flat-footed on a flat range punching holes in paper. To paraphrase TS - "masturbatory marksmanship only impresses the shooter". Thanks TS

, I use that concept regularly, and some of my victims even (or eventually) understand what I'm talking about.

12-29-2008, 14:49	#31
Peregrino Quiet Professional Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Occupied Pineland Posts: 4,701	I'm glad to see a few people taking a realistic attitude towards competitive shooting. It is fun. It is also challenging and, if approached with an open mind and personal discipline, it CAN be a quality training experience. You get out of it what you put in it. If all you see is the "game", I can just about guarantee you won't gain much from the experience. OTOH, if you bring realistic expectations and concentrate on fundamentals (efficiency, i.e. economy of motion and accuracy, i.e the basics of marksmanship) you cannot help but improve your skills. NTM - When you find yourself on a two-way range, it's a little late to discover you can't shoot when stressed. Competition may be artificially induced stress but it's better than flat-footed on a flat range punching holes in paper. To paraphrase TS - "masturbatory marksmanship only impresses the shooter". Thanks TS , I use that concept regularly, and some of my victims even (or eventually) understand what I'm talking about. __________________ A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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