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Help, I recently realized I don't know how to shoot.
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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 1654434" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>No offense taken, Sir. A conflicting opinion is not offensive unless it was meant to be, and that is usually made clear in the delivery. Yours was clearly <em>not</em> intended to offend, and I didn't take it that way. </p><p></p><p>I can see your point about how a novice shooter might mistake knowing when the gun is going to fire with making the gun fire. I must admit that I was not thinking along those lines when I wrote my post. I have found than whenever I try to make something happen, the results are not often what I had in mind. Letting it happen, and having a pretty good idea when it is going to happen, is more like what I meant. You're right - they aren't the same thing. Making the gun fire is the set-up for a bad hit, and timing the swing so that the goes bang when the sight picture is just right is what puts animals in the back of the pick-up.</p><p></p><p>"Forcing the issue" doesn't work well in most endeavors. I've spent my whole life flying airplanes ( I just retired from a long career of airline flying ) and making an airplane land will almost never produce the desired results. However, if one doesn't set up the approach correctly, and know when an airplane is going to touch down, he is pretty likely to run one off the end of the runway and have a <em>MAJOR</em> problem. Shooting is not much different, especially with a moving target. You kinda have to know when it's going to happen, and the rifle's trigger is a lot like the flight controls in the cockpit. A lot of things in life are that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 1654434, member: 109113"] No offense taken, Sir. A conflicting opinion is not offensive unless it was meant to be, and that is usually made clear in the delivery. Yours was clearly [I]not[/I] intended to offend, and I didn't take it that way. I can see your point about how a novice shooter might mistake knowing when the gun is going to fire with making the gun fire. I must admit that I was not thinking along those lines when I wrote my post. I have found than whenever I try to make something happen, the results are not often what I had in mind. Letting it happen, and having a pretty good idea when it is going to happen, is more like what I meant. You're right - they aren't the same thing. Making the gun fire is the set-up for a bad hit, and timing the swing so that the goes bang when the sight picture is just right is what puts animals in the back of the pick-up. "Forcing the issue" doesn't work well in most endeavors. I've spent my whole life flying airplanes ( I just retired from a long career of airline flying ) and making an airplane land will almost never produce the desired results. However, if one doesn't set up the approach correctly, and know when an airplane is going to touch down, he is pretty likely to run one off the end of the runway and have a [I]MAJOR[/I][B] [/B]problem. Shooting is not much different, especially with a moving target. You kinda have to know when it's going to happen, and the rifle's trigger is a lot like the flight controls in the cockpit. A lot of things in life are that way. [/QUOTE]
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