Hello All!
I am a LONG time lurker who has been convinced to join the "precision shooting community". I have learned good material here and will contribute when I can speak with firsthand knowledge, and will note when it is not "first-person knowledge or experience".
Short discreet bio: (read; not exciting and only listing relevant). I served in the Army for ~6/7 years, ~3yrs enlisted in the Army Reserve, ~4yrs. Active Duty as a "Mustang"... Served in Iraq in 2005 as a Cavalry Platoon leader; that was something else.
Around firearms and have shot my entire life. I guess I accumulate firearms rather than collect. Have had gun collections many times and try to own everything for a little while. Shot pistol competitively for a few years almost every weekend. Now, I want to make the switch to "precision, long-range, semi-scientific paper ventilation with the hope of using learned skill set to hunt later on."
I really am respectful of the fact that "Do not point a weapon/firearm/bb gun/etc. at anything that you do not intend to destroy, or cannot live with the fact that it may become destroyed or ruined if that weapon discharges. Either negligently, accidently, by malfunction or by magic. When a weapon discharges, everything in the weapon's path will be destroyed."
Unfortunately, I have known two people who have had a firearm in their hands when it discharged and killed their “best friend”. We know what rules were broken and why these incidents occurred. It ruined the men mentally who had the firearms in their possession as well as the havoc created in the lives of all the family, friends, and work on both sides. Please, follow the firearm safety rules that we all know and should have memorized.
So here is my introduction, I hope this is the appropriate place as I cannot remember where the forum rules stated to post an introduction. Please move if need be, and I am already going to hunt down the forum rules to re-read them. I have shopped around a few other forums before I decided to enroll in this one.
Very Respectfully, Matt E.
I am a LONG time lurker who has been convinced to join the "precision shooting community". I have learned good material here and will contribute when I can speak with firsthand knowledge, and will note when it is not "first-person knowledge or experience".
Short discreet bio: (read; not exciting and only listing relevant). I served in the Army for ~6/7 years, ~3yrs enlisted in the Army Reserve, ~4yrs. Active Duty as a "Mustang"... Served in Iraq in 2005 as a Cavalry Platoon leader; that was something else.
Around firearms and have shot my entire life. I guess I accumulate firearms rather than collect. Have had gun collections many times and try to own everything for a little while. Shot pistol competitively for a few years almost every weekend. Now, I want to make the switch to "precision, long-range, semi-scientific paper ventilation with the hope of using learned skill set to hunt later on."
I really am respectful of the fact that "Do not point a weapon/firearm/bb gun/etc. at anything that you do not intend to destroy, or cannot live with the fact that it may become destroyed or ruined if that weapon discharges. Either negligently, accidently, by malfunction or by magic. When a weapon discharges, everything in the weapon's path will be destroyed."
Unfortunately, I have known two people who have had a firearm in their hands when it discharged and killed their “best friend”. We know what rules were broken and why these incidents occurred. It ruined the men mentally who had the firearms in their possession as well as the havoc created in the lives of all the family, friends, and work on both sides. Please, follow the firearm safety rules that we all know and should have memorized.
So here is my introduction, I hope this is the appropriate place as I cannot remember where the forum rules stated to post an introduction. Please move if need be, and I am already going to hunt down the forum rules to re-read them. I have shopped around a few other forums before I decided to enroll in this one.
Very Respectfully, Matt E.
