Might make a poll out of that. I know it certainly doesn't describe me.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.
You can also drink while golfing. You need your own acreage to do that while shooting.
Rifle shooting can help you defend your country, your freedom, or your life. It can also help you put food on the table or dispose of dangerous animals/pests.
What is the potential practical use of golf skills?
What is the potential practical use of golf skills?
As an avid golfer and shooter, I can attest that these have far more in common than most assume. I'm more of a pistol shooter than a rifle guy, but they really are very similar.
Hard to say whether pretentious blue-blooded golfers looking askance at sport shooting or proletentious blue-collared shooters quoting Col. Cooper's "joke" are more tiresome. Neither of them generally know anything about what they're sneering at.
I've always thought a golf course was a waste of a perfectly good rifle range.
A martial artist from the 16th century once wrote that the same mindset that made for a good carpenter applies to the swordsman. I wouldn't be surprised if the same applied to golf and shooting.
I've been a golf course Supt. for 38 years now....for what it's worth, I've met more good ole' boys on the golf course than anywhere else.
LOL! Makes perfect sense to me.
I've been working in DOD for 37 years (uniform 28 years, DOD civilian 9 years) as of last October, and I've meet more great folks at work than anywhere else too...but I've meet a lot of buttheads at work too, as well as both on golf courses.
True story...I met an older gentleman on an Air Base in Japan who was a retired 25 year US Airman. He had spent twenty years after retiring from active duty working at the air base, first, in his "dream job" as a supervisor at the base golf course and after two years, he moved to the base bowling alley for the next 18. He was married to a Japanese lady and she refused to leave, so he stayed there in Japan.
He told me golfers (of which both he and I were/are) were the most unhappy bunch of folks he knew. The course was too wet, the greens too dry, the bunkers too messy, the carts were dirty, the players in front were too slow, the players behind them were too pushy, on and on.... Always complaints. After two years, he moved to the base bowling alley and the clientele, many of whom were the same customers, had a 180 degree different attitude. They bowled in leagues, with families and friends, drank beer, ate burgers and nachos, and had fun. Only a few uptight high rollers ever complained about the lane conditions, maybe three in his 18 year stint.
I thought is was eye opening, and made me think how I'd bitched about the golf courses many times, realizing how it was probably due to the fact I was having a bad golf day (my usual).
Now, when I golf, I'm only out there when one of our local American Legions or VFW's is having a best ball tourney. That's fun...and as most of my foursome are kinda tipsy by the time we're done the front none, I actually look pretty good! LOL!!!
LOL! Makes perfect sense to me.
I've been working in DOD for 37 years (uniform 28 years, DOD civilian 9 years) as of last October, and I've meet more great folks at work than anywhere else too...but I've meet a lot of buttheads at work too, as well as both on golf courses.
True story...I met an older gentleman on an Air Base in Japan who was a retired 25 year US Airman. He had spent twenty years after retiring from active duty working at the air base, first, in his "dream job" as a supervisor at the base golf course and after two years, he moved to the base bowling alley for the next 18. He was married to a Japanese lady and she refused to leave, so he stayed there in Japan.
He told me golfers (of which both he and I were/are) were the most unhappy bunch of folks he knew. The course was too wet, the greens too dry, the bunkers too messy, the carts were dirty, the players in front were too slow, the players behind them were too pushy, on and on.... Always complaints. After two years, he moved to the base bowling alley and the clientele, many of whom were the same customers, had a 180 degree different attitude. They bowled in leagues, with families and friends, drank beer, ate burgers and nachos, and had fun. Only a few uptight high rollers ever complained about the lane conditions, maybe three in his 18 year stint.
I thought is was eye opening, and made me think how I'd bitched about the golf courses many times, realizing how it was probably due to the fact I was having a bad golf day (my usual).
Now, when I golf, I'm only out there when one of our local American Legions or VFW's is having a best ball tourney. That's fun...and as most of my foursome are kinda tipsy by the time we're done the front none, I actually look pretty good! LOL!!!