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Classification and Divisions

Attendance fall off at organized shooting events is the biggest problem facing advancing gun owner skill and improving the perception of gun ownership by the general public. Ignorant gun owners scoff about not caring what their non-gun owning neighbors think while ignoring the fact that pro-gun initiatives would be much easier if those neighbors had a reason to hold a positive opinion on it.

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Training: The value of competition shooting to your type of shooting

Training: The value of competition shooting to your type of shooting

http://www.guns.com/review/training-the-value-of-competition-shooting-to-your-type-of-shooting/

This is a great write up by Andy C at Guns.com about the value of organized shooting as found at competitive events. If you’ve never been to a match or have gun-owning friends that haven’t, do yourself a favor and read this.

Some choice quotes:

I guess you might develop a “training scar” from habits…

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Pro Gun People Can't Count

Pro Gun People Can’t Count

http://www.recoilweb.com/its-time-the-nra-stopped-acting-its-age-125586.html

It’s Time The NRA Stopped Acting Its Age

While this was a great interview on RecoilWeb‘s site, they made a misstatement.

While there are 76 board members, it’s safe to say the majority are older, well-established white guys. This explains why the NRA pumps the membership’s dollars into traditional, one-handed,…

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Rifle Marksmanship: Competition Shooter vs. Military

Rifle Marksmanship: Competition Shooter vs. Military

A very good bit of instruction from Patrick E. Kelley

Offhand Rifle Shooting Tips

A 10-inch steel plate at 170 yards is about 5.8 MoA. As you can see in the video, the Burris XTR II reticle used has an interior dimension of 1.75 mils (about 6 MoA) which appears just slightly larger than the target.

For reference, basic Army and…

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Botswana Defence Force Marksmanship Programs

Botswana Defence Force Marksmanship Programs

CPT Letsomo of the Botswana Defence Force

http://www.gov.bw/en/Ministries–Authorities/Ministries/State-President/Botswana-Defence-Force-BDF/

An overview of marksmanship programs in the BDF. “You have to start right now!”

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Competition Makes the World Go ‘Round

Competition Makes the World Go ‘Round

“If the question is whether you should compete, then the answer is yes. If the question is when, the answer is now. NOTHING will take your training to the next level the way training for a competition will.”

Competition makes EVERYTHING better. Period. The simple act of someone trying to do a job better than another person leads to dramatic increases in work productivity. It drives performance in…

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Special Operations Find Competition Shooting Valuable

Special Operations Find Competition Shooting Valuable

Competition produces better performance. Special Operations personnel know this. Everyone in the know does as well. Only the ignorant or people with an agenda wrongly claim otherwise.

Master Sgt. Scott Satterlee says the military could learn a lot from civilians

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Sam Woodfill

Captain Sam Woodfill Competition Marksman and Pershing’s Favorite Doughboy by Darryl Davis

Rifle Marksmanship is an imperceptible process with results visible only to the practitioners and understandable only to other practitioners. Marksmanship is nearly impossible to describe to others. [Note 1]

General Pershing did not want American soldiers to learn to be cave-dwelling trench denizens. He…

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