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<blockquote data-quote="sable tireur" data-source="post: 1227551" data-attributes="member: 27307"><p>shortgrass,</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> Shortgrass,</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> This is the only sentence in response #4:</p><p></p><p></p><p> <em>"Glad to see you posted the question. I think this is the best place to get good advice on anything shooting related!"</em></p><p></p><p></p><p> Perhaps you meant Post #5…</p><p></p><p></p><p> <em>"</em><em>[FONT=&quot]Hands on experience is worth twice as much as book smarts..."[/FONT]</em></p><p><em>[FONT=&quot]</em></p><p><em>[/FONT]</em></p><p> [FONT=&quot]I guess this is part of the 'details' you were taught so much about…[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]</p><p> </p><p></p><p> I don't find any reason to get into a spitting contest with you over this. Here are a couple of thoughts on the subjects broached by you.</p><p></p><p></p><p> I have always found that this statement regarding books, learning and hands on experience to boil down to being self-serving and a method of self-aggrandizement. Those who look down on education through books as being a lesser pursuit while learning through years of trial and error using the hands on approach are celebrated as the pinnacle of success. Try telling this to a doctor or a civil engineer and dozens of other career paths including gunsmithing that they can give up the book learning in favor of practicing hands on, trial and error with patients, roadways or other professional paths.</p><p></p><p></p><p> This is where you and I will disagree mostly because you didn't read and understand the path I was suggesting. Since he had a 3-year old (now 10 years old) and was working two jobs, he just didn't have the time to devote to your path. Stated succinctly, I was simply suggesting that he could get started on his path without sacrificing the jobs or time with his daughter. This in no way should have been construed as being a method to avoid a real, live school that teaches gunsmithing. The suggestion of taking a machine shop course was exactly that, to take a course to get the working familiarity with the machines while learning some basic skills to be applied later to gunsmithing since those schools were out of the question at that time. It does not imply that you have to become a machinist at all or that by being a machinist qualifies you to be a gunsmith. It is simply part of the skill set.</p><p></p><p></p><p> I have also found through education and experience that it most often is a case of a combination of both, book learning and hands on. One supplements the other. It's not a case of either or but a combination of both.</p><p> </p><p> Regards.</p><p> [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]</p><p> <div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: right"><a href="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=315130" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue">[FONT=&quot]</span></a></div> <div style="text-align: right"><a href="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=315130" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue">[/FONT]</span></a>[FONT=&quot][/FONT]</div> </div></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sable tireur, post: 1227551, member: 27307"] shortgrass, Shortgrass, This is the only sentence in response #4: [I]“Glad to see you posted the question. I think this is the best place to get good advice on anything shooting related!”[/I] Perhaps you meant Post #5… [I]“[/I][I][FONT="]Hands on experience is worth twice as much as book smarts...”[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT="] [/FONT][/I] [FONT="]I guess this is part of the ‘details’ you were taught so much about…[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] I don’t find any reason to get into a spitting contest with you over this. Here are a couple of thoughts on the subjects broached by you. I have always found that this statement regarding books, learning and hands on experience to boil down to being self-serving and a method of self-aggrandizement. Those who look down on education through books as being a lesser pursuit while learning through years of trial and error using the hands on approach are celebrated as the pinnacle of success. Try telling this to a doctor or a civil engineer and dozens of other career paths including gunsmithing that they can give up the book learning in favor of practicing hands on, trial and error with patients, roadways or other professional paths. This is where you and I will disagree mostly because you didn’t read and understand the path I was suggesting. Since he had a 3-year old (now 10 years old) and was working two jobs, he just didn’t have the time to devote to your path. Stated succinctly, I was simply suggesting that he could get started on his path without sacrificing the jobs or time with his daughter. This in no way should have been construed as being a method to avoid a real, live school that teaches gunsmithing. The suggestion of taking a machine shop course was exactly that, to take a course to get the working familiarity with the machines while learning some basic skills to be applied later to gunsmithing since those schools were out of the question at that time. It does not imply that you have to become a machinist at all or that by being a machinist qualifies you to be a gunsmith. It is simply part of the skill set. I have also found through education and experience that it most often is a case of a combination of both, book learning and hands on. One supplements the other. It’s not a case of either or but a combination of both. Regards. [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [RIGHT][RIGHT][URL="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=315130"][COLOR=blue][FONT="] [/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT="][/FONT][/RIGHT][/RIGHT] [/QUOTE]
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