The most useful skill you learned outside of shooting

[Alan]

I'll say physical fitness, hands down. All the gun skills in the world don't help if you're gasping for air after walking 200 yards. Hunting steep terrain, training courses that require movement, even just carrying gear...cardio and strength make everything else possible. I spent years focusing only on shooting and ignored the body that has to do the shooting.

 

[Jett]

Endurance and strength turn good intentions into actual performance in the field or on the range.

 

[brutus]

Precession machining, grinding parts to .0001 tolerance. Keeping 18" machined parts flat and parallel. Worked from 1 week after HS and for 46 years till retirement. Last 18 years as 2nd shift supervisor.

 

[Alan]

Endurance and strength turn good intentions into actual performance in the field or on the range.

yeah fitness really is the foundation that lets all your other skills actually show up.

 

[Alan]

Precession machining, grinding parts to .0001 tolerance. Keeping 18" machined parts flat and parallel. Worked from 1 week after HS and for 46 years till retirement. Last 18 years as 2nd shift supervisor.

Wow, 46 years of that kind of precision is incredible!!!