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OK. So, I don't think that all of Cooper's ideas are handed down from on high but I like the hell out of this one. Anyone want to meet up at Whittington and give this a go?
Hmmmmm maybe I need another rifle.
:thumbsup:
This is from the current Cooper's Commentaries, V-12 #2:
"Do any of you marksmen think it possible for a man to place 20 shots in a
20-inch circle in 20 seconds at a 1,000 yards? I posed this question to
the range masters down at Camp Pendleton many years ago and was told that such a thing was not possible. During much of my life a four-minute mile was deemed to be impossible, to say nothing of motoring around on the surface of the moon.
"Obviously this rifle challenge is very, very hard. I
have tried it twice myself and conclude that while the task is not
impossible, it is nearly so.
"Therefore, I am undertaking the proposal of a
perpetual prize in the form of a grand gold cup or bowl to be awarded to
anyone who can bring off this stuntproperly supervised, of
course. Administration of the effort will be complicated, but that we can
handle. I hope to avoid commercialization, but where there is a will there
is a wayand money in sufficient quantities can provide the will."
Hmmmmm maybe I need another rifle.
:thumbsup:
This is from the current Cooper's Commentaries, V-12 #2:
"Do any of you marksmen think it possible for a man to place 20 shots in a
20-inch circle in 20 seconds at a 1,000 yards? I posed this question to
the range masters down at Camp Pendleton many years ago and was told that such a thing was not possible. During much of my life a four-minute mile was deemed to be impossible, to say nothing of motoring around on the surface of the moon.
"Obviously this rifle challenge is very, very hard. I
have tried it twice myself and conclude that while the task is not
impossible, it is nearly so.
"Therefore, I am undertaking the proposal of a
perpetual prize in the form of a grand gold cup or bowl to be awarded to
anyone who can bring off this stuntproperly supervised, of
course. Administration of the effort will be complicated, but that we can
handle. I hope to avoid commercialization, but where there is a will there
is a wayand money in sufficient quantities can provide the will."