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Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by throw310822 »

krisoft wrote: post #30
Ancapistani wrote: post #21

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> His objective is not to participate in the Olympics but to shoot deer. Where do you see that? The article is about someone in Scotland who took up marksmanship as a hobby.

> Where do you see that? There are multiple mentions of him being motivated by wanting to shoot deer for meat. It is a through line via the article. > The article is about someone in Scotland who took up marksmanship as a hobby. I wish it were so. With a bit more self awareness the author could have said “initially picked up a rifle to learn to hunt deer, but doing so i learned how targets are scored and become inter…

The guy is clearly an obsessive hyper-perfectionist- he's telling (or boasting) of taking a culinary obsession from reproducing fine-dining dishes (when most people are content mastering a few decent recipes) to building automates curing chambers and butchering whole animals. It's kind of obvious that this personality leads from any random objective to into the deepest of the rabbit holes where everything is studied and annotated with the utmost precision. Funny as a clinical case, not sure I'd like to be around someone like this though :)

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by satvikpendem »

duozerk wrote: post #34
saaaaaam wrote: post #26

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No, it’s a great title. It was curious enough that I clicked and then I read the whole thing. It’s unlikely I would have done that if it had been something like “Using computer vision to score rifle shooting cards”.

In other words it's a great clickbait title, yet still a bad title.

Would you call titles of other media click bait too, like 1984 or Gone with the wind? Sometimes an article doesn't have to have a literal title, sometimes it's an artistic decision to have a more vague title that nevertheless relates to the media.

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by lucb1e »

seszett wrote: post #35
duozerk wrote: post #34

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In other words it's a great clickbait title, yet still a bad title.

I wouldn't say that. The current title indicates that the article is likely written in a less clinical manner than an article called "Using computer vision to score rifle shooting cards" would have been.

Thanks for that, now I know I don't care about the contents before clicking. Misleading titles (something about smartphones and metals?) is why people open comments before reading the article

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by scrumper »

valzevul wrote: post #14
jfengel wrote: post #8

Scoring is based on the outermost ring, rather than the innermost ring? Huh. I'd have expected it to be based on the center, but I guess the goal is "it must be entirely within this ring to count" rather than just "I hit this ring".

I think it depends on the discipline, NSRA .22 in the post uses the outermost edge, but ISSF (Olympic rifle/pistol, for example) uses the innermost edge.

Isn't .22 a bit small for deer? I don't know anything though, so this isn't an informed objection just a question. Or were you just learning fundamentals of shooting before trying a bigger caliber?

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by valzevul »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #29

> Best gourmet pastries this side of the pond (and they also do doughnuts!). Haha no, not even close. Saddler's Forfar Bridies take that prize.

With all due respect, driving past Dundee every time I fancy a wee pasty is a bit too much (and they don't do doughnuts).

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by mkesper »

pjc50 wrote: post #33
mcc1ane wrote: post #31

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yak shaving

Yup. Or deer shaving, in this case. The punchline is he never actually got round to shooting a deer. I do think he understated the difficulty of the hunt itself. He's planning to use the "supervision" rule to avoid needing his own firearm license, and male deer are indeed unlicensed for shooting (but not female deer!). Then you have to find one. He's right that they have reached "pest" status, since humans killed off…

Wolves are back to continental Europe. Takes some time to get everyone to accommodate again. Breeders are not amused.

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by butlike »

scrumper wrote: post #44
valzevul wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it depends on the discipline, NSRA .22 in the post uses the outermost edge, but ISSF (Olympic rifle/pistol, for example) uses the innermost edge.

Isn't .22 a bit small for deer? I don't know anything though, so this isn't an informed objection just a question. Or were you just learning fundamentals of shooting before trying a bigger caliber?

I was thinking the same thing.

Re: My phone replaced a brass plug

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Post by valzevul »

scrumper wrote: post #44
valzevul wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it depends on the discipline, NSRA .22 in the post uses the outermost edge, but ISSF (Olympic rifle/pistol, for example) uses the innermost edge.

Isn't .22 a bit small for deer? I don't know anything though, so this isn't an informed objection just a question. Or were you just learning fundamentals of shooting before trying a bigger caliber?

Aye, I think most people use something like .243 for stalking, but the closest range was indoors, so I didn’t have much choice.

My goal was to get a deer stalking certificate (e.g DSC1), which includes a shooting test: 2 chest shots at 100m from prone, 2 chest shots at 70m from standing/kneeling/sitting, and 2 head shots from 10-20m standing (they use cardboard deer targets, so not far from training at a range).

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