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From: averett@cs.unc.edu (Shava Averett)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Learning to shoot
Message-ID: <1991May3.064130.1941@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 11:41:29 GMT
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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
>(the same way Dad learned, the same way...  ;-) The reason I was told
>was that you really pay attention to what you're doing when you've
>only got one shot (especially when hunting!) as opposed to just
>blasting away with a full clip (as I tend to do with my 9mm 8^).

My first shooting was with similar equipment, shooting at corn cobs tossed
out on the ice of the farm pond, same reasoning.  At first, I got to wait
for the corncobs to stop skittering...;-)

Shava Nerad Averett
shava@rad.unc.edu