November 7, 2011, 11:40 PM | #26 |
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Yep. I think you're probably right about that.
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November 8, 2011, 12:53 AM | #27 |
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Just to belabor a point...
Which way is it?
....I openned this multilog with a statement which went something like: I avoid shooting with others because a relatively small number of shooters exhibit habits I don't like. Then later in the thread I contradicted myself saying that there are too many folks who shoot in a way I don't like. One might be prompted to ask, "Well, Hoy, Is the number of people you don't like high or is it low?" "Which is it, because it can't be both." Mykeal is right Mykeal, because he studies this kind of thing and because his mind works this way, brought up the fact that human behavior can be predicted using the "bell curve". Of course he is correct. Considering just "safety", in any group of thirty shooters, one will be so scrupulously careful as to make himself a pain in the neck (High end) and one will be so fool hearty that he could easily wind up hurting someone (Low end). The bell curve revisited I think there are three factors which place shooters on the safety curve. Namely, experience, training or indoctrination, and motivation to shoot responsibly. I shot an awful lot while on active duty and always with a lot of folks present. There was always a very small group who really needed close supervision. Attitude? Experience? Training? Who knows? Out Take I don't know if my threshold is too high (Likely), or if I just seem to attract idiots (Not likely) but the Sunday I was describing is the first time in seventeen years that I found myself shooting with others present. And on that day I was shooting with people who made me uncomfortable. Experience? Attitude? Training? So one hundred percent of the people I have shot with over a seventeen year period were undesireable as I define undesireable. (How is that for bending statistics!?) I also said early in the thread that there are other reasons I like to shoot alone. These reasons attach to a quest for solitude in a normally rather hectic life and the embarrassment of how finnicky I am when I shoot. (I am not overly safe, just terribly finnicky.) I am avoiding other shooters as much to save them as to save me. NOW TO THE MEAT OF MY RESPONSE I have said that I believe that there are three factors which place shooters on the curve. I think there are groups of people who are likely to have these three factors in great amounts. They are high on the curve. Police officers are among these folks and people who post on this forum are also among these folks. I certainly hope that no complaint I have made about other shooters is presumed to extend to anyone here. I think I know everyone here well enough not to make that generalization.
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