jobo
Grandmaster
well back at youJobo, I started shooting shotguns and rifles when I was about ten. By age 16, I'd taken mule deer, American pronghorn, and a lot of doves and quail, and did some trap and skeet shooting for fun. I gave up hunting forever in my early 20s, and have had very little involvement with shooting arts since. I still shoot handguns with my brother once in a rare while, and am looking to buy one now. Shooting is something fun I can still do during this Covid thing.
I also did a bit of paintball. Let me tell you, things like paintball and air-soft are not the same as shooting real firearms that can accurately shoot hundreds of yards and kill by chance at distances of over a mile. Really. My brother has some very accurate and very expensive open-sight (no scope) rifles he uses in national and international competition at the 1,000 yard range, and he has a couple of large caliber scoped rifles with custom barrels and ammo that can hit things even farther away.
And you talk about moving the targets around? Targets that have to stop real bullets?
Look, I grew up in a family that shot guns. Most Americans, especially those with rural roots did. I'm still totally ignorant about the type of shooting being referenced in the OP. So I'm reading this thread out of curiosity ...and am humble enough not to opine on matters I do not understand.
You apparently grew up in the UK, a society where guns are highly regulated and rare, with handguns almost totally unavailable. You have had almost no experience with a real firearm and none at all in the type of shooting being referenced here. Yet you want to argue with all the knowledgeable people posting! IKLawson was right on the mark. BTW ever hear of Dunning - Kruger???
Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
you do know that range targets dont stop bullets , dont you ? it does rather seam from the above you dont