Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!osnome!hunting
From: hes@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Learning to shoot
Message-ID: <1991May2.065914.25918@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 11:59:13 GMT
References: <1991May1.080256.20018@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
Lines: 14
Approved: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu

In article <1991May1.080256.20018@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kapson@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (John Kapson) writes:
> ...
>When I learned to shoot, it was with a bolt-action single shot .22

  I also learned with a rifle like that, and taught my son to shoot
with the same rifle.  (I had it reblued last summer - but that is
another story.)  I agree that it does make the shooter pay more
attention to each shot.  It also presents them with a less complicated
situation (many fewer state variables) so that more attention can
be paid to other factors such as safety and marksmanship.  It also
is harder for the learner to do something dumb, and it is easier to
prevent this, than it is with a semi-automatic or a handgun.

--henry schaffer  n c state univ