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I need some feed back on why people don't compete.
I see a lot of people who say they want to become more competent and proficient shooters but they don't take advantage of the various competitions available.
As far s I'm concerned I get a few things out of the matches I attend. The primary is feed back over time on my level of proficiency in the form of my scores against other shooters who are better than I am, and my subjective evaluation of my performance. The other important aspect is the opportunity to watch the shooters who are better than I am and take pointers where ever I can get them.
There are probably many reasons to not want to compete but for the people who say they are serious about improvement I think there are probably only a few. I get the impression that the fear of embarrassment may be one. Another is a failure of the shooting sports to inform the public what is really available and what you can get out of them. The one I find most disturbing is the impression by some that if you are truly a "tactical shooter" it will some how create problems for you. I'm not an "operator" or high speed low drag, but I have meet alot of people who are in real life at matches and they seem to get something out of them with out fear of creating problems for themselves.
Input requested.
Thanks
I see a lot of people who say they want to become more competent and proficient shooters but they don't take advantage of the various competitions available.
As far s I'm concerned I get a few things out of the matches I attend. The primary is feed back over time on my level of proficiency in the form of my scores against other shooters who are better than I am, and my subjective evaluation of my performance. The other important aspect is the opportunity to watch the shooters who are better than I am and take pointers where ever I can get them.
There are probably many reasons to not want to compete but for the people who say they are serious about improvement I think there are probably only a few. I get the impression that the fear of embarrassment may be one. Another is a failure of the shooting sports to inform the public what is really available and what you can get out of them. The one I find most disturbing is the impression by some that if you are truly a "tactical shooter" it will some how create problems for you. I'm not an "operator" or high speed low drag, but I have meet alot of people who are in real life at matches and they seem to get something out of them with out fear of creating problems for themselves.
Input requested.
Thanks