Thread 'Field Target is an arms race.' https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/field-target-is-an-arms-race.1324782/
Some variation of "the arrow or the indian" popped up in that discussion probably a good 30+ times. I recently ran across this quote and it gave me a good snicker.
"The flight of the arrow is as true as the skill and the nerve of the man with the bow." Attributed to the legendary Fred Bear.
Interesting thing about that quote is the 60ish years he spent pursuing better equipment. Obviously he was a businessman, and the parallel goal was surely to make money and have a successful company, but engrained in that business side of things was his perpetual march towards better equipment. He was granted various patents for his advancements in archery over those decades of the pursuit of "better."
Better might be the enemy of good, but I'll take better over good when it comes to my field target equipment any day for the week, and twice on Sundays.
Nothing new here really, just a reiteration that it takes "better" equipment, and "the skill and nerve" to use it to its capacity to win ft matches. Ie, those who win matches are those with the better equipment, and the work ethic to spend time figuring out how to get the most out of it (practice).
Some variation of "the arrow or the indian" popped up in that discussion probably a good 30+ times. I recently ran across this quote and it gave me a good snicker.
"The flight of the arrow is as true as the skill and the nerve of the man with the bow." Attributed to the legendary Fred Bear.
Interesting thing about that quote is the 60ish years he spent pursuing better equipment. Obviously he was a businessman, and the parallel goal was surely to make money and have a successful company, but engrained in that business side of things was his perpetual march towards better equipment. He was granted various patents for his advancements in archery over those decades of the pursuit of "better."
Better might be the enemy of good, but I'll take better over good when it comes to my field target equipment any day for the week, and twice on Sundays.
Nothing new here really, just a reiteration that it takes "better" equipment, and "the skill and nerve" to use it to its capacity to win ft matches. Ie, those who win matches are those with the better equipment, and the work ethic to spend time figuring out how to get the most out of it (practice).
