Does shooting help you de-stress?
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4570Rick
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Absolutely
After a work place violence episode, upper and mid mgnt. were sent to a stress mgnt. psy'gest. Long story short, by writing on a target dot that whitch bothers me, and blasting the target dot to pieces, stress just seems to drain out of me. Interestingly, the more accurately I identify the problem, the more accurate I become and the more effective the "Therapy" is.
After a work place violence episode, upper and mid mgnt. were sent to a stress mgnt. psy'gest. Long story short, by writing on a target dot that whitch bothers me, and blasting the target dot to pieces, stress just seems to drain out of me. Interestingly, the more accurately I identify the problem, the more accurate I become and the more effective the "Therapy" is.
joeislove
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Absolutely.
The act of preparing, laying out my stuff, keeping the four rules foremost in my mind, becoming one with the target, and firing the gun all combine to force other concerns out of my mind. I always leave the range feeling very relaxed.
A very "Zen in the Art of Archery" kind of thing.
The act of preparing, laying out my stuff, keeping the four rules foremost in my mind, becoming one with the target, and firing the gun all combine to force other concerns out of my mind. I always leave the range feeling very relaxed.
A very "Zen in the Art of Archery" kind of thing.
45R
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Shooting is alot of fun. Fun is RXed for decreasing Stress
Shooting for me is more of a fasination. Having a very contained explosion release a projectile from 800FPS to over 3000FPS were the slightest movement can send the bullet a few inches off at what ever distance your aiming at.
Very fun.
Shooting for me is more of a fasination. Having a very contained explosion release a projectile from 800FPS to over 3000FPS were the slightest movement can send the bullet a few inches off at what ever distance your aiming at.
Very fun.
bogie
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Shooting is pretty relaxing for me - I think the main reason is that it is decidedly analog. Especially benchrest. It involves a LOT of concentration and attention to detail, but it's a different kind of concentration/detail than I deal with at work.
Of course, every so often it's fun to just go out and blow stuff up.
Of course, every so often it's fun to just go out and blow stuff up.
Betty
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Shooting does relieve stress most of the time for me, unless I'm having malfunctions, etc., or I'm having a "poor shooting day". Then I get cranky.
I'll also watch TV, cook, or excercise to relieve stress.
I'll also watch TV, cook, or excercise to relieve stress.
Blackcloud6
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Yes, shooting is a stress reliver. Blasting cans, milk jugs, clays etc. really lets things go. I do it a lot.
dairycreek
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Shooting sure does relieve stress..........
when I concentrate on it. And, that's the secret - concentration on something other than the problems that are causing the stress in the first place. As "runt_of_the_litter" mentions, exercise is really effective for most people. I have a close friend who goes to the potters wheel and throws pots. Lord! Does he have a collection of pots. Good shooting
when I concentrate on it. And, that's the secret - concentration on something other than the problems that are causing the stress in the first place. As "runt_of_the_litter" mentions, exercise is really effective for most people. I have a close friend who goes to the potters wheel and throws pots. Lord! Does he have a collection of pots. Good shooting
StuckintheUK
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Target shooting can help me with stress but I find putting out some tin cans and blasting away with some full auto airsoft to be far more therapeutic. (until I remember that the Thompson in my hands could be chambered for .45acp rather than 6mm plastic balls if I lived in a country where the gun laws weren't so awful)
Ledbetter
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My two favorites
1. Benchrest shooting (.22 or .30-06, doesn't matter)
2. The shotgun sports, mostly trap.
I forget everything else while I'm shooting. Solely focused on the gun (safety, handling, marsmanship) and the target.
1. Benchrest shooting (.22 or .30-06, doesn't matter)
2. The shotgun sports, mostly trap.
I forget everything else while I'm shooting. Solely focused on the gun (safety, handling, marsmanship) and the target.
spacemanspiff
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honestly, i relieve stress by playing MOH online. got a great server where its rifles and pistols only, maximum ten users and it utilizes a force script to keep the teams even.
going to the range is sometimes more hassle than it is worth, considering it takes me at least an hour from getting all the gear together and driving over there, then setting up, realizing i forgot some of the more important things, like targets, or staples, and then the RO is calling it 'cold' every ten minutes for at least ten minutes so i'm just out there standing around, and lately i've been going at like 3 or 4 pm leaving me only about an hour of decent shooting time.
the best way for me to go to the range is if i have all day and i can get there right when they open. i can take my time and not feel rushed. but that doesnt happen too often.
going to the range is sometimes more hassle than it is worth, considering it takes me at least an hour from getting all the gear together and driving over there, then setting up, realizing i forgot some of the more important things, like targets, or staples, and then the RO is calling it 'cold' every ten minutes for at least ten minutes so i'm just out there standing around, and lately i've been going at like 3 or 4 pm leaving me only about an hour of decent shooting time.
the best way for me to go to the range is if i have all day and i can get there right when they open. i can take my time and not feel rushed. but that doesnt happen too often.
LeadPumper
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Stress BAD
I do many things to de-stress and lower the blood pressure. Rifles, pistols, shotguns, billards, video games, model trains. All involve precision, hand-eye coordination, and concentration (if you want to do well that is!).
Firearms are the one thing that might just save my life one day. Out with the bad stress, in with the good.
-LeadPumper
I do many things to de-stress and lower the blood pressure. Rifles, pistols, shotguns, billards, video games, model trains. All involve precision, hand-eye coordination, and concentration (if you want to do well that is!).
Firearms are the one thing that might just save my life one day. Out with the bad stress, in with the good.
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Frohickey
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I don't think that I will be calm and relaxed out on the golf range... I mean, there is O.J. Simpson, looking for his wife's killer out in the golf ranges.
To think that there is a homicidal maniac loose in the nation's golf ranges, just makes me break out in hives.
St. Gunner
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Last semester to a BA in English, i'm a gun owning conservative guy with a real libertarian leaning, at a place torn between total fascism, socialism, and liberalism. I ordered 1500rds of 8mm mauser ammo at the start of christmas break. It'll probably be gone by Spring break, something about coming home, grabbing the rifle out of the rack, strolling outside and letting fly at the sillohoutes at 300yds and hearing the clanging of that 1" steel plate seems to make all the evil thoughts and stress induced muscle tremors go away. Asked why I continually submit myself to that cesspool called college, I reply that I am part masochist and enjoy testing my mental pain threshold. Shooting has kept me sane and sometimes even made me enjoyable to be around.
Last semester only took me 3,000rds to get through. Something about the slamming of the steel buttplate and the ring of steel targets.
Asked why I continually submit myself to that cesspool called college, I reply that I am part masochist and enjoy testing my mental pain threshold. Shooting has kept me sane and sometimes even made me enjoyable to be around. Last semester only took me 3,000rds to get through. Something about the slamming of the steel buttplate and the ring of steel targets.
Bruz
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Depends if I hit the person causing the stress!
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