You missed the entire point try again...
This was not even an issue on Scout as bad as it is everywhere else. Shooting is a sport is it not ? Why not to open it up to mainstream sports. What do you think 3GUN Nation does, they are on NBC Sports.
Here is not the problem.
You go on some huge rant HERE about what ignorant people are supposedly saying somewhere else like your FB page? Why not go on rant where the problem is? Kind of hard to fix a problem that exists at one point, when you are talking about it at another.
Sorry, but there is no shortage of ignorant $#!@ being posted here on a daily basis. Which caliber, which scope, which rifle, same freaking questions posted here on a continual basis. Per your own comments, "brand x is better than brand y", no "brand y is better than brand x". And last but not least, nothing like some of the wonderful LE bashing topics that frequently go on here for pages with no one being banned. If I really need to site examples, it would not be hard to find plenty of them.
Shooting my be a sport, but there is nothing sporting about being a Sniper. If you want to focus on discussing "mainstream shooting topics" then you might want to rename the website. Of course if that is also the case, then that would pretty much nullify you as a subject matter expert, because last time I checked you were the master of sniping, not general sports shooting like 3 Gun.
Huge problem, which you eluded to, is people who shoot a local or PRS match, but have never served a day as a LE or MIL sniper, and are all of a sudden qualified to comment on what Snipers should be doing. There have been some epic topics here on what platform or caliber actual snipers should be using with a ton of comments from people who have never actually served as a sniper.
Until there is some form of qualification and separation here, there will be problems here, because if you have not been there and done that, then you are not really qualified to comment on it.
I get talking about things like the PRS matches here, but once again, the people who should be commenting/discussing topics like that, should be qualified to do so.
Going back to the big picture issue that you brought up, learning should occur first with your eyes & ears. Until you have covered the basics/fundamentals, your mouth (or fingers on a key board) should not come into play. Unfortunately too many people don't get that concept, they will spend little to no time reading, and will immediately jump on the keyboard.
Once again, I am about trying to raise the level of quality here, I could honestly care less about how many members are posting.
“I’d rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred $!@#heads” – Colonel Charlie Beckwith. I would rather have a handful of qualified people posting quality material here, than having countless posts of worthless BS by a large number of people.
Just my 2 cents, which as the HMFIC you can obviously disregard.
