This reminds me of what happened in Skydiving, when they came out with the professional rating. It required you to land, standing up, in a 5 meter circle.....10 times. You had to declare before you got in the airplane that you were going to do it.
All the experienced guys proclaimed how easy that would be but if you missed the circle once or touched even a hand, you had to start over. It was amazing how many guys who always talked about how good they were, decided they did not need this rating, after trying for it a few times. Cut out a lot of the "I can do that any time any place" statements that had gone on for years. It is one thing to claim to be able to do it. It is another entirely to have to do it repeatedly, in front of witnesses. Not can you do it most of the time, when the conditions are right, with no mulligans, but can you do it every time. My guess is that many of us would fail, shooting under those kinds of rules but that is just my opinion and I could be wrong. TM
Reminds me of a comment made to me by a very well known international type shooter after I remarked that I was surprised at my fairly decent placement in the final standings at an international level tactical match. He remarked " if you keep up with this type of competition you will soon notice that after the noise dies down & the smoke clears you can look around & say, " hell, these famous ***** can't shoot""
Semper Fi
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