Luck can and does occur, and maybe that explains this successful shot. Almost 50 years ago I and a friend, an Army Sergeant, went north of El Paso into the desert with a WWII British Enfield carbine that had never been fired (to my knowledge). I had never gone shooting with this particular friend, so I casually pointed out a series of power lines or telephone lines about 400 yards from us, held the carbine at the hip, and said "middle wire" and pulled the trigger. Sure enough, we saw the middle wire part and fall to the ground. This friend was dumbstruck, saying he had never seen or even heard of someone who could shoot from the hip with that accuracy, let alone that this was a jungle carbine certainly not designed for such distances. I should have quit shooting after that first shot and gone home knowing that I was to be a legend, but instead we starting shooting at tin cans at 100 yards and it was obvious I was not such a great marksman after all. I've never had that sort of lucky shot in the intervening 50 years!
