hunting camp b.s. .... prove it.

[spencerhenry]

over the years i have heard more b.s. about peoples ability to shoot. one camp i was in many years ago, my uncle proclaimed to me that he could shoot an antelope at 325 yds every time. he guaranteed it, the next day he clean missed one at 250 or so, and then on the second shot hit it in the guts. i have heard the "i cant shoot targets for beans, but i never miss my elk". here on this site there is no shortage of "i can shoot one hole groups all day long", or i am 100% confident in my abilities to take an elk out to 550 yds".
i have no doubt that there are many good shooters here, but i also know that the number of people that claim to be world class shooters is far in excess of the number that truly are. i have heard so many people tell me how they could beat everyone on "top shot", but that they dont want to be on the show because they are too busy, or because it is in california, or some other b.s. excuse. i would like to see a "top shot" type of get together where everyone shoots the same course of fire with handguns, shotguns, and rifles. there would still be some people who would say that they got robbed, or that on that day there was some problem that they never had before, but the number would show who was full of it, and who wasnt.
i am over on the western slope and almost never get through the tunnel, so it would have to be a good get together for me to cross over the divide. but it would be nice to see how well the people who claim to be so good really are.
when i was a framing contractor and had people come to the job looking for work, i could always tell the guy that i didnt want to hire by how good they said they were. the more they talked about how great they were, the less i wanted them. that was learned by trial and error. the guys that were fairly humble almost always turned out to be a better hire.

anybody else want to put up or shut up?

[Irving]

Who are you referring to? I've seen what you are talking about before, but I didn't think that it was too rampant on this site.

[Mtn.man]

Never shot an elk further than 200 yards. My stalking abilities are awsome, I am a ghost in the woods.

[Mtn.man]

However I can pick a knats ass off your nose at 600 yds without so much as a burn.

[Byte Stryke]

Who are you referring to? I've seen what you are talking about before, but I didn't think that it was too rampant on this site.

This...


I need a scope, a Rest, and a Laser to hit the 50m Targets

[DD977GM2]

Who are you referring to? I've seen what you are talking about before, but I didn't think that it was too rampant on this site.

I honestly havnt noticed that people brag about themselves. As far as the TOP SHot, I talked shit about the guys who were professionals and could not hit shit with the firearms. There was a lot of that since the professional job is to shoot firearms.

[Marlin]

I shot a fly at 25 yrds with the .22 once. Does that count?

[StagLefty]

I shot a fly at 25 yrds with the .22 once. Does that count?

You had to shoot it ? I would have stared at it

[Marlin]

I used my Jedi mind powers to change the path of the bullet.

[Hoosier]

people come to the job looking for work, i could always tell the guy that i didnt want to hire by how good they said they were. the more they talked about how great they were, the less i wanted them. that was learned by trial and error. the guys that were fairly humble almost always turned out to be a better hire.

There's a name for this,

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. “Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.”

Or to put it shortly, "90% of people think they're in the top 10%"

H.