shooting and golf

[Fine Figure of a Man]

The great thing about golf is it occupies a lot of people for a considerable amount of time thus preventing them from interfering with the things I enjoy doing.

 

[Picher]

Picher - if you want a chance to win serious money shooting, go shoot live pigeons in competition....

I may be wrong, but don't think shooting live pigeons is legal in the states.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

I may be wrong, but don't think shooting live pigeons is legal in the states.

It is everywhere that I know of.

 

[kidneyboy]

A couple days ago I went shooting in the morning and golfing in the afternoon. What a great day!! The only thing I might do different is golf in the morning and shoot in the afternoon.

 

[George P]

I may be wrong, but don't think shooting live pigeons is legal in the states.

It is; although many places tend to keep it low key due to certain animal rights' groups

 

[Picher]

Picher - if you want a chance to win serious money shooting, go shoot live pigeons in competition....

Don't know of any live bird competitions in Maine. I wish there were a competition to shoot crows.

 

[Jessesky]

A sporting clays club I belong to does an event called “Clubs and Clays”. You shoot 9 stations, and your score carries over and you finish with 9 holes of golf at a nearby course.

 

[Picher]

That sounds like something I'd be interested in doing.

 

[BigBL87]

I miss golfing, shooting kind of took up the time and budget that might have gone to golf. Funny thing is, my main email address refers to golf and I haven't even been golfing in a decade.

I can definitely see the similarities, both rely more on precision, repetition, and coordination than brute athleticism compared to other sports. If I could do both on a regular basis I gladly would, but I find shooting to be more enjoyable in and of itself, and it is easier to get away and do when I have an hour or so free compared to golf which tends to be 2 hours or so at a minimum. I also find shooting solo more fun than golfing solo, though both are more fun as a shared activity.

 

[KnightHawk]

Well for me you could shoot down a fairway and it would not bother me. When I play golf I use the rough only. Not by choice, but, by my poor skill level.
When I was a kid my Father would take my brother and I out to the canyons to have a golf ball shoot. We would lay out a half a sack of golf balls and see who could shoot the most over the edge of a drop off. Still do that with my kids and grand kids.

 

[Cowhide Cliff]

I've always thought a golf course was a waste of a perfectly good rifle range.

and farm land

 

[WestTexShooter]

Obviously the common denominator between the 2 activities-

When you do not hit your “target” where you want - it is the equipments fault. Not mine

 

[P5 Guy]

and farm land

I feel the same way about cemeteries. Planting dead people on arable land seems wasteful

 

[Art Eatman]

A common need to be skillful in golfing or shooting is the ability to concentrate. To ignore extraneous "bothers" like noise or wind: Adjust and overcome.

 

[Lennyjoe]

I shoot far better than I golf. BTW, I'm a 10 handicap at golf............

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I shoot far better than I golf. BTW, I'm a 10 handicap at golf............

If I was a 10 it would be hard to get me off the course long enough to go shooting. I know that's sacrilege around here. But it's so fun when you're playing well.
I'm a 17.5 and it's hard enough as it is.

 

[George P]

The only thing common about those sport is, RICH PEOPLE.

Not hardly. #1 son bought a full set of clubs at a garage sale for $5. Local course, if you're a senior, charges $10 to play. 50 rounds of most ammo costs more than $10 and it's gone in about 10 minutes.
RICH people have yachts and jets.

 

[George P]

But your previous post seems to infer that the only folks who shoot and play golf are rich folks; and that is simply false.

 

[Lennyjoe]

If I was a 10 it would be hard to get me off the course long enough to go shooting. I know that's sacrilege around here. But it's so fun when you're playing well.
I'm a 17.5 and it's hard enough as it is.

I was an 8 handicap but lost a couple with lack of play. Good thing my shooting doesn’t suffer from time away from the range like my golf game does....lol

 

[PWC]

It is self evident... you PLAY golf....

 

[boom boom]

Golf is a way to get a small ball into a hole using very expensive equipment, when it would have been far easier, faster, and vastly less expensive to simply walk up to the hole and drop the ball in.

Shooting for many, if not most of us, is a way to make small holes in paper using very expensive and noisy equipment and the ultimate accomplishment is expend the greatest possible cost in time and ammunition to make only a single small hole in the paper.

Would that be a hole in one?

 

[Legionnaire]

Hole-in-one vs. one-in(ch) hole (i.e., MOA). Has a ring to it ...

 

[SHOOT1SAM]

Anybody else remember the episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies” when Jed & Jethro were shooting golf balls launched like clays with their rifles?

Sam

 

[orpington]

It was mentioned that golf courses are a waste of precious farm land. Around these parts, thank God for golf courses and rod & gun clubs. They are the ONLY thing preventing everything around here being developed! Land preservation goes right out the back door when it comes to the bribes of wealthy developers.

In this regard, more than any other, golf and shooting sports are similar. Both are organisations that preserve land from incessant development and are always looking to expand, if the budget allows for it.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Hole-in-one vs. one-in(ch) hole (i.e., MOA). Has a ring to it ...

I've shot a lot of 1 inch holes. I've yet to attain the elusive hole in one. lol