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Slims · 08-12-2003, 01:36 PM

I remember those from back when I used to shoot precision smallbore.

I would go to the range with an old beatup anschutz 54, a canvas shooting jacket, a glove, and not much else besides a pad and cheap spotting scope.

I remember getting excited several times when I saw someone with a 3,000 dollar rifle, custom made leather shooting jacket and pants, the shoes, and all the super duper things that a world class shooter would probably have. I also remember being dissappointed when they couldn't even hold most of their shots in the black.

I don't think they are posers so much as people who think that good equipment makes a good shooter.

I also remember people showing up at the NRA range with elegant range boxes with six or seven super nice pistols with laser sights (and optical sights too). I would watch the little dot bounce all round the paper, settle down in the center, and then jerk almost off the paper right before the guy shot each time.

Ooh Ooh, and there was the guy with a short barrelled shotgun with pistol grips who was shooting from the hip, but couldn't hit a larger than life target at 7 yards...

08-12-2003, 01:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
Slims Eccentric insomniac Location: North Carolina	I remember those from back when I used to shoot precision smallbore. I would go to the range with an old beatup anschutz 54, a canvas shooting jacket, a glove, and not much else besides a pad and cheap spotting scope. I remember getting excited several times when I saw someone with a 3,000 dollar rifle, custom made leather shooting jacket and pants, the shoes, and all the super duper things that a world class shooter would probably have. I also remember being dissappointed when they couldn't even hold most of their shots in the black. I don't think they are posers so much as people who think that good equipment makes a good shooter. I also remember people showing up at the NRA range with elegant range boxes with six or seven super nice pistols with laser sights (and optical sights too). I would watch the little dot bounce all round the paper, settle down in the center, and then jerk almost off the paper right before the guy shot each time. Ooh Ooh, and there was the guy with a short barrelled shotgun with pistol grips who was shooting from the hip, but couldn't hit a larger than life target at 7 yards... __________________ "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence