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To: Gauguin who wrote (22288)	4/18/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

We went to an outdoor range. First rifle, then pistol. Rifle is my current obsession. 100 yards to the target, and if the bullet holes are inside a one-inch circle you done good. I have a "benchrest" gun that should give me groups in the "twos and threes" (tenths of an inch, center to center, five shots) if I do my thing right. This means finding the Right Load for this particular gun. I'm working that out. Buddy was sorting out a coupla AR-15 pattern guns. Semiautomatic, which means that the empty hot case is flung off to one side. He took the bench to my left, and every rare so often I'd get a toasty "hello" tossed into the rear collar of my shirt. Kinda dicks with a guy's concentration. >Even done paintball? < No. Not my thing. That is a lot of exercise, and it is "war". Target shooting is more like bowling - you aren't shooting something. You're shooting for score. Zero aggression. I love to shoot for shooting's sake, and in a quest for "accuracy" on target. If I were rural, I would hunt, particularly "varmints" and smaller game. I don't care for the martial side of shooting. That is one of my big beefs with folks like HCI. They suppress the notion that there is a kind of gun sport that is not about fighting or killing. And Hollywood isn't helping one bit. "Breaking Away" could be about a rifle champ as easily as a bicycler. Instead we get"The Jackal". B*stards.