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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1498155" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Welcome Banga. Are you a Kiwi by raising or just visiting?</p><p></p><p>As for your error, don't worry about it, anyone using such a scope in that manner is pretty well guaranteed to do the same thing at some point and most of us more than once.</p><p></p><p>Sharing those stories does nothing but help those afraid to ask questions or worse afraid to admit they've made such a simple error for frear of being thought to be a fool.</p><p></p><p>The finest shot I've ever known was an absolute master with every kind of weapon he ever touched and considered not to just be an authority on all types of weapons and their uses but an absolute unchallenged expert not by guys on the street and rednecks in the bar but every true expert on any weapon or weapons that ever met, observed, studied or read him.</p><p></p><p>He was a part of our family though not actually related and he was largelyl responsible for any good character trait or knowledge of the outdoors I acquired before my military days.</p><p></p><p>One day he made a shot on a running and I mean flat out running coyote that had 12 people on the harvest crew stand flat stunned and flabbergasted.</p><p></p><p>With his 7mm bdl 7mm RM, cheap Bushnell scope from the mid seventies he carried in the combine, he spotted the coyote bailing from the field just in front of truck about a quarter mile ahead of the combine.</p><p></p><p>WIthout even parking the combine he simply stands up, braces for the shot and just as it rolls slowly to a stop pulls the trigger and the back of the coyotes head comes completely off.</p><p></p><p>A guy standing there asks him how on earth he makes something look line that so easy, and he says, "I've mad every mistake in the book twice, once because I wanted to see what happened and then again to make sure I will never do it again. Then I go home and read everything I can on the subject, put everything I can learn into practice and figure out for myself exactly how to do it right.</p><p></p><p>This is how great athlets shooters and other professionials go from averate to great to becoming so gifted at what they do they make it all look completely natural.</p><p></p><p>Share our mistakes and how we fixed them so others can benefit from our exerience, I don't know anyone that doest learn best from actual examples rather than just pure theory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1498155, member: 30902"] Welcome Banga. Are you a Kiwi by raising or just visiting? As for your error, don't worry about it, anyone using such a scope in that manner is pretty well guaranteed to do the same thing at some point and most of us more than once. Sharing those stories does nothing but help those afraid to ask questions or worse afraid to admit they've made such a simple error for frear of being thought to be a fool. The finest shot I've ever known was an absolute master with every kind of weapon he ever touched and considered not to just be an authority on all types of weapons and their uses but an absolute unchallenged expert not by guys on the street and rednecks in the bar but every true expert on any weapon or weapons that ever met, observed, studied or read him. He was a part of our family though not actually related and he was largelyl responsible for any good character trait or knowledge of the outdoors I acquired before my military days. One day he made a shot on a running and I mean flat out running coyote that had 12 people on the harvest crew stand flat stunned and flabbergasted. With his 7mm bdl 7mm RM, cheap Bushnell scope from the mid seventies he carried in the combine, he spotted the coyote bailing from the field just in front of truck about a quarter mile ahead of the combine. WIthout even parking the combine he simply stands up, braces for the shot and just as it rolls slowly to a stop pulls the trigger and the back of the coyotes head comes completely off. A guy standing there asks him how on earth he makes something look line that so easy, and he says, "I've mad every mistake in the book twice, once because I wanted to see what happened and then again to make sure I will never do it again. Then I go home and read everything I can on the subject, put everything I can learn into practice and figure out for myself exactly how to do it right. This is how great athlets shooters and other professionials go from averate to great to becoming so gifted at what they do they make it all look completely natural. Share our mistakes and how we fixed them so others can benefit from our exerience, I don't know anyone that doest learn best from actual examples rather than just pure theory. [/QUOTE]
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