Guys: Good Grief! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH! Oscilloscopes? Permanent Magnets and Coil Set Ups, Photography[not involving scantily clad girls]! Pull up a chair, sit down and let me tell you a story...a true one. When I was in high school I worked in a stereo shop after school and one day the owner who liked his beer invited me after closing on Friday to help him count the receipts and have a Coors [I was 17 and about to go to the R.S.V.N.]. We lived in Georgia and yeah I know just like "Smokey and the Bandit" he had a trucker friend bring Coors back in his refrigerated truck.
While we counted he laughed and said anyone who spent more than $200 [1969 DOLLARS] for a stereo was a fool! I asked why and he said the human ear could not reproduce the sounds the more expensive stereo made and the money was wasted! [Hold on while I test this Knob Creek for impurities!!!] Well I guess you guys have gotten my point by now...no it is'nt to drink Coors even though that's not a bad thing to take away from this diatribe. IT'S THAT THE WEAKEST LINK IN SHOOTING ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE GUY BEHIND THE GUN! All the DST'S in the world won't make up for a pumping heart, expanding lungs, exhaling breath, contracting and relaxing muscles and just general shimmies and shakes!I grew up in a gun store and I always laugh when I think about how far optics have come since I was a kid in the 50's. Most $50 scopes now are better than anything we had back then, even the vaunted Weaver K series that did'nt gather light for sheet but IT WAS WONDERFUL FOR ITS' TIME! Now the scopes are state of the art and my eyes are in a state of antiquity. Well I hear my wife's looking for me and the dog [GSP, Dixie Belle] and we're hiding in the "Pout House" as my wife calls it. My cabin's up the moutain a ways from our home [Not by accident]. In closing I leave you with this thought... accuracy is a wonderful thing but don't let it come at the price of enjoyment. I used to reload, keep records, compare loads etc. Then one day I realized I could do so much more of things I originally bought the guns for... hunting, varminting, plinking, just walking and seeing what popped up, if I did'nt worry about wringing every bit of perfection from each one. Remember one day your body will not effect your shooting accuracy at all, but on the other hand a DST won't either, as your shooting days here will be over. SEE YA OUT AT THE WORKSHOP! JERRY aka Alvin Linden #1