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From: HUDSON%EIVAX%UALR.BitNet@vms3.macc.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Learning to shoot
Message-ID: <1991May3.064114.1874@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 11:41:14 GMT
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>...taught to shoot with a single shot .22....
 
This is the way I was taught about shooting and it seems to be fairly
common, at least in the South, Texas and Arkansas in particular.
Shooting for my family usually meant hunting, some plinking at cans,
etc... .  As a boy of about 8 or 9, I was given a Remington .22 bolt
single shot (which my brother currently has) and a Mossberg (I think?)
bolt .410 shotgun.  We never shot at targets, but were expected to
"make each shot count" (sounds like "whites of their eyes" and
"remember the Alamo", doesn't it???).  It turns out to have worked
pretty well.  I do shoot at targets now, informal 25 yard pistol and
NRA/DCM Highpower Rifle.  It sure helps my sight picture and shot
placement in hunting.  I will use the same techniques with my children
in a few years, but will teach them on targets to start.
 
I have had a few friends who learned how to shoot at older ages, and
bought very nice weapons, semi-auto or pump, and noticed they tended
to "blast away".  I think that is a learned trait, not a function of
gun type.  I use only semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and I still use
the old one shot technique, using the semi-auto action to allow me to
remain still for additional shots at other animals who hang around,
even with all the uproar.
 
Keith Hudson
hudson%eivax@ualr.bitnet