Its one thing to do it at a range with a rifle that is benched and a totally different thing to do it in the field on uneven terrain at a target you can't even see with the naked eye.
I agree with that.
This brings back some unpleasant memory's also.
I loved to shoot my Springfield single shot .22 in my youth. I always enjoyed long shots at a bean can, or even better, a blasting cap when we could find them, and that wasn't all that hard.
I was shooting a 7X57 Spanish Mauser when I enlisted, US Army 1971.
I took an immediate dislike, scratch that, Hate of the M-16 because I was stupid and bull headed. My ignorance and stupidity caused me to come close to being recycled in basic training. Yes I received a Toilet Seat to hang on my dress uniform, and that only added to my Hate of the M-16, Blaming everything on a fine rifle that all those lesser fellow solders that were proudly wearing Expert Rifle Badges earned because they in most cases merely listened to Time Proven Instruction.
Today my dress uniform hangs in a utility closet with a Toilet Seat that is a painful reminder of of an Ignorant Bull-Headed past.
Where is all this going, you may ask?
I perhaps mistakenly, see you being extremely (
!!!) excited about the 200 yard shooting. Yes not everyone can, but I also was excited like that to the point that nobody, especially that minority Drill Instructor was going to teach ME how to shoot.
Then when it came time to do some real shooting I FAILED.
I encourage my children and now Grand Children to
listen, and they are developing into much better marksman than I was.