What did this man need that he didn't have?

[Collector1337]

Really? People in the Stone Age needed to eat food? No shit?

And how many thousands of years went by before even the most primitive firearm was invented?

I think you've missed the point, Einstein. Nobody on here is bragging about inventing the firearm. Just bullshitting about USING one. Which involves pointing it and pulling a trigger.

Complicated stuff.

Who ever said the act of it was hard?

Being good at it and hitting what your aiming at is an entirely different matter.

[Kristie]

Really? People in the Stone Age needed to eat food? No shit?

And how many thousands of years went by before even the most primitive firearm was invented?

I think you've missed the point, Einstein. Nobody on here is bragging about inventing the firearm. Just bullshitting about USING one. Which involves pointing it and pulling a trigger.

Complicated stuff.

Who ever said the act of it was hard?

Being good at it and hitting what your aiming at is an entirely different matter.

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

[mistermack]

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

Exactly. It's a modern machine that does everything for you.
20.000 years ago, people were making their own bows, their own arrows, their own strings, and their own flights.
And if they didn't hit something, they didn't eat.

Today's gun wankers are not in the same league at all.

[piscator]

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

Exactly. It's a modern machine that does everything for you.
20.000 years ago, people were making their own bows, their own arrows, their own strings, and their own flights.
And if they didn't hit something, they didn't eat.

Today's gun wankers are not in the same league at all.

The Voice of No Experience is loud in this thread...

[Cormac]

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

Exactly. It's a modern machine that does everything for you.
20.000 years ago, people were making their own bows, their own arrows, their own strings, and their own flights.
And if they didn't hit something, they didn't eat.

Today's gun wankers are not in the same league at all.

The Voice of No Experience is loud in this thread...

oooh, check out that slidy, oily action...

[piscator]

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

Exactly. It's a modern machine that does everything for you.
20.000 years ago, people were making their own bows, their own arrows, their own strings, and their own flights.
And if they didn't hit something, they didn't eat.

Today's gun wankers are not in the same league at all.

The Voice of No Experience is loud in this thread...

oooh, check out that slidy, oily action...

As I was saying...

Srsly. there is a certain joy in crafting and operating a precise machine. And a zen of shooting that people go to great lengths to experience in other ways.

[Cormac]

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

Exactly. It's a modern machine that does everything for you.
20.000 years ago, people were making their own bows, their own arrows, their own strings, and their own flights.
And if they didn't hit something, they didn't eat.

Today's gun wankers are not in the same league at all.

The Voice of No Experience is loud in this thread...

oooh, check out that slidy, oily action...

As I was saying...

Srsly. there is a certain joy in crafting and operating a precise machine. And a zen of shooting that people go to great lengths to experience in other ways.

I was joking, of course.

I'd love to do a bit of rifle shooting. I've only ever fired a shotgun.

[Seth]

Really? People in the Stone Age needed to eat food? No shit?

And how many thousands of years went by before even the most primitive firearm was invented?

I think you've missed the point, Einstein. Nobody on here is bragging about inventing the firearm. Just bullshitting about USING one. Which involves pointing it and pulling a trigger.

Complicated stuff.

Who ever said the act of it was hard?

Being good at it and hitting what your aiming at is an entirely different matter.

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

Fifty feet? Twenty five yards perhaps. Of course that's relatively easy, particularly with good instruction on sight picture and trigger control. But with added range and environmental factors it's not a linear relationship between skill and accuracy. Shooting at long range or under extreme conditions from combat to weather, requires a much higher degree of skill and knowledge.

The good news is that you DID shoot rifles at camp. So did I. Not only there, but at my middle school shooting range. I eventually qualified with a .22 as an NRA Expert Marksman in the junior class at summer camp. Went on to become an NRA Police Pistol Expert and Instructor.

Most kids never get to touch, much less shoot a gun, much less get firearms safety training, which is why untrained urban children comprise the bulk of the very few remaining accidental gun deaths and injuries in children.

[Collector1337]

Really? People in the Stone Age needed to eat food? No shit?

And how many thousands of years went by before even the most primitive firearm was invented?

I think you've missed the point, Einstein. Nobody on here is bragging about inventing the firearm. Just bullshitting about USING one. Which involves pointing it and pulling a trigger.

Complicated stuff.

Who ever said the act of it was hard?

Being good at it and hitting what your aiming at is an entirely different matter.

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

ROFL!

"a good distance away"

According to you perhaps.

Question. Was the range measured in feet or yards?

[Collector1337]

Fifty feet?

Tops.

[Ian]

Boasting about firearms expertise and marksmanship is like bragging that you can ride and take care of motorcycles well. Any idiot can learn that, and so what? Right now you two are insisting that you're more competent than a nine-year old girl. Congratulations.

I'm a good shot too, with the service medal to prove it. Do you know where that medal is located on one's chest by the other medals? At the lower right, meaning it's the least valuable thing that can be awarded. Simply enlisting in the last twelve years earns a higher medal than marksmanship.

[pErvinalia]

I once shot a cockroach from probably 2 or 3 kms away. I had to account for the curvature of the Earth and upscale my calculations from Newtonian to Relativity.

[Clinton Huxley]

I can balance 32 two-pence coins on my elbow and flip them into my hand without dropping any. I don't like to brag about it, mind.

[Kristie]

Really? People in the Stone Age needed to eat food? No shit?

And how many thousands of years went by before even the most primitive firearm was invented?

I think you've missed the point, Einstein. Nobody on here is bragging about inventing the firearm. Just bullshitting about USING one. Which involves pointing it and pulling a trigger.

Complicated stuff.

Who ever said the act of it was hard?

Being good at it and hitting what your aiming at is an entirely different matter.

We shot rifles at Girl Scout camp. The girls had never shot a gun before and most of them hit the target. It was a good distance away, also. Can't be that hard. Oh, and they were 9.

ROFL!

"a good distance away"

According to you perhaps.

Question. Was the range measured in feet or yards?

How far away from you would an intruder be in your home? I'm guessing less than 20 feet? Most hones aren't open concept enought to be much more than that. The range we shot at had targets 12 meters away. That could also be measured in feet, but I'm not real sure why it makes a difference if the range was measured in feet or yards or meters or inches. My point was, a group of first time shooters, with no training beforehand other than the 15 year old camp counselor that barely knew how to fire the thing himself, and no instruction on how to properly aim, had pretty good success with hitting an 8 inch bullseye 12 meters away. Bravo for you if you are better than them.

[MiM]

A bunch of 9 year olds shooting rifles, with instructions from a 15 year old...