20 rnds 0 hits what lames!

Where I live you could set up a mile range.

I remember in Sheridan Wyoming, at the gun club one year I was walking down a path looking for the pistol range. Small hills rose above the path, and yet further in the sky the heavy cast bullets of the Black Powder Boys were whizzing by. You could hear them coming and going. ( I doubt they were supposed to be shooting but figured I was safe....I hoped.)

Satori, I've never even fired a Class Three weapon before. One of my late friends always intended to take me out to the ballgame with his Thompson, but like a lot of stuff in life, we never got around to it.


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About my idea - I know that the American Armed services has been studying the problem of soldiers not shooting each other in combat since the civil war.
That is the reason for the change in targets over the last one hundred years or so.
They used to be bullseyes, then they were paper sillhouettes, now they used molded plastic 3-D "ivans" that actually look like enemy soldiers.

that has improved their mental preparedness with regards to shooting at humans and not just paper practice.

I saw all of this in a documentary a while back...
 
I remember reading the statistic about rounds fired in a battle versus casualties. It was almost unbelievable, like 10,000 rounds for every KIA. It went on to say that most of the casuaties were likely caused by very few of the participants. The authors opinion was that there are just some people who have what it takes and most don't. Training can help, but when the **** hits the fan, some will step up to the plate and hit the ball and everyone else strikes out. Some guys just freeze, some panic fire, some fire into the air and a few guys aim at targets but miss and one or two make their shots.
 
I'm sure some of it is experience, too.

When I started hunting, I had AT LEAST 3 or 4 good chances to take a deer in just a week. My first deer I shot from the hip, he was so close!

You learn to stop hesitating. The '03 season, when I got out of the Army, was my best, from the first shot when I saw that running doe and automatically threw up my Mossberg. Success reinforces- when I saw I had shot a running deer just behind the head in thick brush- with a slug- I realized I was better than I usually let myself be.

That was a good season. My longest shot ever, my largest deer, most deer in a season, a double...After awhile, you kind of build a...um, mojo, baby, or something. I got so confident that I decided one morning that I was going to take a deer with a sniper rifle that day. Two hours, 1 armor-piercing 180-grain SXT .308 later- voila. Only time I had the PSS out all year. I think real combat is probably a lot like that, too, sometimes, some get a "grace under fire" that's partially skill, partially experience.

John
 
I have read a lot of first hand combat accounts. War vets from all different wars telling their stories. The general belief is that if you live through your first couple actions, you have a good chance of making it through the whole thing. It seems a lot of casualties are the green guys. Hence the green guys being left alone by the vets until they prove themselves.
 
Spectre said:
I'm sure some of it is experience, too.

When I started hunting, I had AT LEAST 3 or 4 good chances to take a deer in just a week. My first deer I shot from the hip, he was so close!

You learn to stop hesitating. The '03 season, when I got out of the Army, was my best, from the first shot when I saw that running doe and automatically threw up my Mossberg. Success reinforces- when I saw I had shot a running deer just behind the head in thick brush- with a slug- I realized I was better than I usually let myself be.
John
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I made some really nice shots on moving animals over the years. But I missed or winged a couple last few years. Finally decided it was because I had almost completely stopped shooting recreationally. Have been trying to do it lots more last year or so.
 
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