Originally Posted by
Bubba FAL
It's not just young guys that can hit with irons and not always with match grade rifles.
Case in point: Back in '91, I was in my mid-20s and had been in the Highpower game a couple years when an older gentleman showed up at a match - looked to be in his '70s at least. He did not have a rifle of his own, so he picked an M1 off the rack (one of the club guns), looked her over and with a simple "this'll do", he set up in the position next to me. As the match started, he commented to me that it had been many years since he'd fired an M1, and hoped he'd do ok in the match.
Since we were next to each other, we ended up scoring each other's targets. Much to my amazement, the guy posted a high expert score. I was giving him a little crap about his earlier comments and he responded (quite graciously, I might add) "son, you didn't have to learn to shoot like I did". Turned out he was in the Pacific with the Marines during WWII. He told me, "we had to make our shots count and them bastards was shootin' back at us". I was truly humbled that day.
So, it's not the tool, it's knowing how to use it that counts.