In 2014 I met this guy at a church function that claimed he was an Army Sniper during the Bosnia conflict in the early 90’s. We became good acquaintances.
One weekend I invited him to go shooting.Without a long drawn out and humorous play by play, it was quite obvious he had never fired a sniper rifle or anything else for that matter.
He burned his thumb after being told to watch where he put it while shooting my S&W 19, luckily loaded with .38s.
He ripped the skin off his left thumb knuckle shooting my Glock after being told not to curl his left thumb over his right thumb. Glad I always take a first aid kit with me when shooting.
The final straw was his confusion about bullet drop and the aiming offset when shooting an AR-15 at 15 yards. He didn’t want to shoot 100 yard targets as he might miss.
On the ride home he admitted that he was not a sniper at all. He was a cook in the Army, but did serve in Bosnia.
Sorry for the deflection, but I wanted to relate this as it is along the subject line of the thread.