Zendude
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The good thing about shooting and golf is that they are activities you can generally enjoy for a lifetime.
I can still clearly remember when a good hole was a single digit on the card. LOLEarly in my golfing life, I used to say that I was under par if I found more golf balls than I lost. Now, if I bring home more brass than I shot, it is a good day.
Boattale said:Anybody got any comments on the potential practical use of baseball, football, basketball or hockey? How about ping pong or bowling?
FWIW, there's a hybrid of shooting and golf that's been around for well over a century:
https://www.archerygolfwi.com/
I think this would make an awesome sport using dummy rifle grenades!
Anybody got any comments on the potential practical use of baseball, football, basketball or hockey? How about ping pong or bowling? The only two sports that have real potential practical use are MMA and track. MMA to force your will on your underlings, and track to get your underling self away from Mister MMA.
I think a basketball would be easier to hit than a baseball, especially at range. I'd be careful about shooting a bowling ball for fear of ricochet. Bowling pins are always fun.
I can relate to all of this.I played golf for about 20 years, had never touched a club until I was mid 30's. Had to give it up when I got so stiff it was hard to turn. Also a huge reason I put the club's away was I really sucked. Started shooting BB guns at age 10, still shoot regularly today. Maybe if I had started golf earlier I would have been a better player. My son started playing around age 10 and he is a good golfer. He player 4 years on his high school team, it was a lot of enjoyment watching him play.
Between shooting and golf, golf is a lot harder to master. If you study and practice the fundamentals of both, you can become a better than average shot, but still suck at golf.
Though I've won several shooting matches, all I've won are cheap trophies and turkeys. In golf, I've won cash on numerous occasions,
That's what I think of soccer fields.I've always thought a golf course was a waste of a perfectly good rifle range.
Meanwhile, the typical American borders on morbidly obese. LOLThat's what I think of soccer fields.
Golf courses could be put to good use training retrievers and holding field trials.
The novelist Harry Leon Wilson used the quip in 1904 and published it in a novel called The Boss Of Little Arcady in 1905, by which time he had expanded the jape a little, so the published gag was:
“This new game of golf that the summer folks play seems to have too much walking for a good game and just enough game to spoil a good walk.”
Well, sometimes bullets blow into the group instead of out, but you have to be close for either.You have to have enough skill in golf to be lucky. I'm not sure if an equivalent exists for shooting.