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To: Road Walker who wrote (245563)	8/10/2005 1:16:24 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1574612

John, re:I don't get the gun thing. My wife was the same until I took her shooting with metal spinning targets and other reactive targets. Once she got over initial fears you couldn't stop her or her friend from using up all the ammo I brought (800 rounds of .22lr). If introduced correctly and safely it's a great deal of fun. Target shooting is really boring unless you like watching paint dry - it's very slow and you can't see much without really good optics. To others it has all the technical nuances of "doping" the wind, bullet selection and a hundred other techniques to learn. I've only done competitive target shooting at 50yrds but we used two wind flags one at 20yrds and one at 40yrds. Sometimes they'd be blowing hard and you'd aim way right of the bullseye with a 22x power scope and it would drift into the x-ring. It felt like you were sneaking up on the trigger and trying not to influence the accuracy of the gun - it lacked the skill part I prefer. I had heard you could see your heart beat in the crosshair at that magnification, but seeing it was sort of spooky. Never tried the offhand stuff, which is demanding of good skills - I should as my offhand shooting could use some work. In long distance shooting - I don't think curvature of the earth is an issue, but bullet drop sure is - a .30-06/.308 at 1000 yards will drop over ten feet. Good thing the target is six feet across with a 20 inch 10 ring. re:The last thing in the world I would want to do is kill a deer It made me think a bit harder about the hundreds of cows and thousands of chickens I've done in. It's not for everyone - that's for sure and I wish a lot of the crazies in the woods weren't there, they're just dangerous. Good thing is the dangerous ones don't usually get off the roads or out of their trucks. I always hike in behind locked gates so I compete with a better crowd both physically and mentally. re:To each his own. Thanks - you too.