Ahmen!Can I have an AMEN!?
Ahmen!Can I have an AMEN!?
Can I have an AMEN!?
"... only perfect practice makes perfect."
Vince Lombardi
We will have to agree to disagree.
That aside, we sound like dicks/the Maryland General Assembly (but, I repeat myself) shitting on (likely) new shooters and saying they have no business exercising a right without training.
Yeah. I've run into a few like them. Fortunately, more seem to have an idea of what they are doing. But it isn't limited to a certain inner city stereotype for those who really have no clue what marksmanship is past "bad things comes out of end with hole in it".They had like, ten guns!
To add: It really isn't about perfection. It's about proper technique v poor technique. Mastering the fundamentals. It isn't magic.I'll defer to Vince on achieving Perfection .
But the more interesting question :
Given a baseline of " medium acceptable competence " , would occasional mediocre quality practice do better or worse than no practice , to maintain or improve baseline competency ?
Fully agree with you on all of that. I guess it can be fun for someone to just throw lead down range and scare the paper. But not fun for me. And "practicing" with no skill isn't building skill without training of some sort. Whether that is formal, pointers from someone, or just book learning and trying to implement. And also yeah, with 10 guns, there isn't much excuse to be that bad.Nonsense. I sound nothing like those azzholes in the MGA. I’m not shitting on those guys and they’re not new shooters if they have that many pistols.
The fact remains that if they have lousy technique/fundamentals and they don’t change it, they will still suck no matter how much they shoot.
I don’t really care what they do as long as they are safe.
I’m still of the mindset that if I can’t hit what I intend to hit, it’s far less fun.
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Yeah. And if you have most of the fundamentals down, then yes practicing with them is absolutely better than no practice. But if you are practicing with no fundamentals and doing all the wrong things, you are training in bad things you should/would need to undo some day to actually improve.To add: It really isn't about perfection. It's about proper technique v poor technique. Mastering the fundamentals. It isn't magic.
because of how ill health he seemed to be in. He couldn't put more than 3 rounds down range.
before he had to and take a seat and breather for a minute or two
I mean, this guy was more like a head shot at arms reach maybe. Torso at maybe 10yds. It was more the violating firearms safe handling rules on top of the age and health conditions that would worry meIn his later years , my FIL had the COPD bad , he probably couldn't make it to 3 shots without at least bending over and leaning on his knees . But with his first shot , he could still make a first shot head shot on a weasel at 35 yds . ( Yes , I paced from the back porch to the chicken coop .)