All of it. Literally none of it is true. No more endorphines (unless your getting a bj while you shoot), no higher heart rate (unless…), marksman are taught to slow their heart rate, and near sighted people are not able to focus on the sights and the target (unless…). Oh and you won’t loose any weight shooting. The gun is getting all the exercise (unless…).
Logic and reason need facts behind them or they are just imagination.
There are sources sited to support the claims, and only “bulshit” to claim they are false.
Everything there, and the supporting sources, seem, quite credible to me, Rob’s statement seems to be nonsense unless he can support it.
Rob
June 25, 2017 1:05 pm
If you were a shooter you too would know that everything presented is a lie. Try it yourself. You might like it. But it won’t burn any calories and it won’t raise your endorphins and you won’t need to be nearsighted and once you get good at it your heart rate will go down, not up. That only happens to first time shooters. Which of course, you would be.
Gerold
June 25, 2017 2:07 pm
Rob’s right; this is a crock of crap.
Look through a scope or fine iron peep sights and you’ll see your heart beating. The front sights move up and down with each heartbeat. There’s a momentary pause at the bottom of the stroke. That’s where marksmen align the target.
When we learned competitive shooting, heartbeat and breath control were very important. Three slow, deep breaths and exhale half on the third, and then pause to SLOW the heartbeat, not speed it up.
It took many thousands of rounds and familiarity with the trigger before we achieved trigger release between heartbeats. For some unfathomable reason, our instructors never told us about this until we had achieved it. I still think we could have saved time and ammo had we aimed for it (no pun intended) but, since I don’t know what their motive was, I could be wrong.
And near-sighted shooters? That’s a joke. I’m so near-sighted I can read micro-print without a magnifying glass, but without corrective lenses, the target is a blur.
And, you definitely need to pinpoint the bulls-eye. At the center of each bulls-eye was a quarter inch circle too faint to be seen by the shooters, but we knew it was there. A bullet hole touching it was called an “X.” Competitive targets had five targets on the paper. Two shots each X 5 = 10 shots X 10 points per bulls-eye = 100 points max. At the state/provincial or national level, almost everybody shoots 100. The winner is the one with the most “X’s.”
Unfortunately, I discovered cars and girls before I made the nationals. It was all downhill from there …
Bullshit.
Why?
Specifically.
All of it. Literally none of it is true. No more endorphines (unless your getting a bj while you shoot), no higher heart rate (unless…), marksman are taught to slow their heart rate, and near sighted people are not able to focus on the sights and the target (unless…). Oh and you won’t loose any weight shooting. The gun is getting all the exercise (unless…).
And you know this how?
Logic and reason?
Logic and reason need facts behind them or they are just imagination.
There are sources sited to support the claims, and only “bulshit” to claim they are false.
Everything there, and the supporting sources, seem, quite credible to me, Rob’s statement seems to be nonsense unless he can support it.
If you were a shooter you too would know that everything presented is a lie. Try it yourself. You might like it. But it won’t burn any calories and it won’t raise your endorphins and you won’t need to be nearsighted and once you get good at it your heart rate will go down, not up. That only happens to first time shooters. Which of course, you would be.
Rob’s right; this is a crock of crap.
Look through a scope or fine iron peep sights and you’ll see your heart beating. The front sights move up and down with each heartbeat. There’s a momentary pause at the bottom of the stroke. That’s where marksmen align the target.
When we learned competitive shooting, heartbeat and breath control were very important. Three slow, deep breaths and exhale half on the third, and then pause to SLOW the heartbeat, not speed it up.
It took many thousands of rounds and familiarity with the trigger before we achieved trigger release between heartbeats. For some unfathomable reason, our instructors never told us about this until we had achieved it. I still think we could have saved time and ammo had we aimed for it (no pun intended) but, since I don’t know what their motive was, I could be wrong.
And near-sighted shooters? That’s a joke. I’m so near-sighted I can read micro-print without a magnifying glass, but without corrective lenses, the target is a blur.
And, you definitely need to pinpoint the bulls-eye. At the center of each bulls-eye was a quarter inch circle too faint to be seen by the shooters, but we knew it was there. A bullet hole touching it was called an “X.” Competitive targets had five targets on the paper. Two shots each X 5 = 10 shots X 10 points per bulls-eye = 100 points max. At the state/provincial or national level, almost everybody shoots 100. The winner is the one with the most “X’s.”
Unfortunately, I discovered cars and girls before I made the nationals. It was all downhill from there …