Road to Becoming a Renowned Shot
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:23 pm
As an aside i am writing this is to inform my friends and critics here that today, i scored a 103/125 in the just concluded nationals and have, by scoring above the MQS become a Renowned Shot.
This long hard road has finally reached its end and i am going to begin another journey whose path will hopefully take me higher up!
See, i did it. I didnt have an Uncle or a family friend who could loan me a shotgun and ammunition. On my own initiative, i got my membership of the DSRA, NRAI, KSSR sorted out. I took the guidance of people( whom over the course of one year or more i am honoured to call my friends) and started taking baby steps. I 'borrowed' ammunition where i could not get any. I found a shotgun. I did what i had to. Standing in the heat of the summers under an open cloudless sky, sweating away to glory with the stock becoming wet and the barrels hot is not fun and only your dedication can carry you forth.
And unlike some, i am not a gifted shooter, i had to crawl and work my way up to a decent mark. But i did.
Today, i am looking to import my own shotgun and ammunition and this cycle will replicate itself every year for me.
Why am i writing this here? Not for the kudos and appreciation coming my way. But for those chaps who get put off by the amount of work one has to do. Our country is not the best place for a sport shooter, but given the dedication and stubborness, it can work out for you as well.
We need the shooting sports to be as inclusive as possible. We need mothers and fathers and wives and daughters and sons and nephews and nieces on the ranges, shooting away to glory. For them to do so, we need to put in the hard work.
The beauty is, its possible.
My story inspired a few guys here to pick up the cudgels against a blatantly illegitimate policy of licensing and they came out on tops. If this ending insoires a few more to take the next step, these words of mine would have been worth the minutes it took ke to write them down.
This long hard road has finally reached its end and i am going to begin another journey whose path will hopefully take me higher up!
See, i did it. I didnt have an Uncle or a family friend who could loan me a shotgun and ammunition. On my own initiative, i got my membership of the DSRA, NRAI, KSSR sorted out. I took the guidance of people( whom over the course of one year or more i am honoured to call my friends) and started taking baby steps. I 'borrowed' ammunition where i could not get any. I found a shotgun. I did what i had to. Standing in the heat of the summers under an open cloudless sky, sweating away to glory with the stock becoming wet and the barrels hot is not fun and only your dedication can carry you forth.
And unlike some, i am not a gifted shooter, i had to crawl and work my way up to a decent mark. But i did.
Today, i am looking to import my own shotgun and ammunition and this cycle will replicate itself every year for me.
Why am i writing this here? Not for the kudos and appreciation coming my way. But for those chaps who get put off by the amount of work one has to do. Our country is not the best place for a sport shooter, but given the dedication and stubborness, it can work out for you as well.
We need the shooting sports to be as inclusive as possible. We need mothers and fathers and wives and daughters and sons and nephews and nieces on the ranges, shooting away to glory. For them to do so, we need to put in the hard work.
The beauty is, its possible.
My story inspired a few guys here to pick up the cudgels against a blatantly illegitimate policy of licensing and they came out on tops. If this ending insoires a few more to take the next step, these words of mine would have been worth the minutes it took ke to write them down.
