Ukulele.
This report covers:
- Ukulele
- Guitar players
- However
- Repetition
- No callouses?
Today’s report will be a little different. I’m going to talk about something that costs nothing and yet if you do it costs everything and solves many problems. I’m going to talk about repetition.
Ukulele
I’l begin with the ukulele. The WHAT?? The ukulele.
What does a ukulele have to do with airguns?
PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING!
Guitar players
All readers who play the guitar raise your hands. Now look at the tips of the fingers on the hand that presses down on the strings at the frets to change the notes. Do they have callouses? You bet they do! If you stuck with the guitar long enough to learn the chords, your fingers are calloused from pressing down on the strings.
Why does BB “try” to play the ukulele? Because it has four strings, where many guitars have six. You see, BB Pelletier is lazy. That’s why he shoots 10-meter target pistols and not 10-meter rifles.
A 10-meter target rifle shooter shows up at a match with two huge cases that contain the rifle, the spotting scope and stand, the mat for laying prone, a knee roll, a shooting glove, the sling and sling stop, shooting glasses, the leather pants that cost a bundle and don’t allow for a 5-pound weight gain and the leather shooting jacket that also keeps you at weight.
A 10-meter target pistol shooter arrives in blue jeans with his pistol in a case and his shooting glasses in a pocket of his denim shirt.
However
And this “however” is where the magic happens. The pistol shooter has shot that pistol 100 shots dry-fire and 60 shots with pellets for record every day for the past several years. He or she can tell you what each shot scored the moment the gun fires because they are watching the front sight all the time.
Their trigger “breaks” at 510 grams, but stage one is set to 490 grams and they can hold the last 20 grams on target for several minutes without firing the pistol. They won’t do it, because if they have not fired within five seconds of raising the pistol they have lowered it again and are preparing to go through a drill that looks like it’s being done by an automaton doll.
Repetition
Is this easy? Not at all. But with repetition it has become familiar. Things that used to be a problem aren’t anymore. The pistol is no longer heavy; the trigger no longer goes off by surprise and holding the front sight on the target has become a habit.
I assume the same holds true for target rifle shooters, but I don’t know. I have watched skeet shooters set up for the high and low houses by swinging their shotguns in patterns that look similar, station to station, but are also just a little different. Watch station eight sometime to see what I mean.
Heck, forget airguns and ukuleles. Just watch a skier st the Olympics right before the start of a downhill slalom run and you’ll see what repetition has created. Most of them tremble like they are having a gentle seizure!
No callouses?
You say you tried to learn guitar but your fingers hurt too much to continue? Okay, I understand. Believe me, as a person who has struggled for two years to learn the ukulele I do understand.
I went for the uke because I’m lazy and it has four strings. But my fingers still hurt and they keep getting in each other’s way. Oh, poor baby! Maybe bass guitar is the way to go? You know—it has a longer neck and nobody can hear the notes anyway!
If your fingers hurt when it comes to airguns I suggest buying full-auto airguns and holding the trigger down until something you want happens. And the real pro will say whatever did happen was what he wanted!
How else does one get to Carnegie Hall?
Siraniko
Yes, 10,000 hours and not a moment less…..
-Yogi
– Dad, I actually wanted to hit the other target, not this small one there! – my older boy is unhappy with his target miss.
– DO NEVER tell you was about to hit something else when you hit the smallest target. IT WAS your target, understand?! – of course, my explanation… could not be different.