I used to do quite a bit of skeet shooting. The National Skeet Shooting Association's world headquarters is in San Antonio, TX. In that I used to live only ten miles away, that was my shotgunning venue of choice. It's not all that far from Sea World. Or used to be, anyway. I hope the developers haven't paved it over.
While never a competitive claybuster, I stayed sharp enough that the local doves were in grave danger every September. Wingshooters know; doves are challenging birds, indeed.
I also attended the NSSA championship once in the mid 80s. The details escape me, but I recall the top three or four shooters all were into the low four-figures of shattered clays, without a single miss.
That's some awesome shooting. But not this awesome.
Let's hope the Standard-3 develops the proficiency as the skeet shooters, and soon.
UPDATE 12 DEC 03...... click "continue reading skeet", for the story.
Success !!!
The Standard Missile-3 fired from the Lake Erie off Kauai in the Hawaiian islands "successfully engaged the target" about four minutes after the target was launched, said Chris Taylor, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency.
Read it all, here.
One of President Bush's legacy milestones will surely be the scrapping of the ABM treaty. Surely that legacy has an awesome foundation. Ronald Reagan's push for SDI paved the way, and was one of the final straws that broke the back of the USSR.
Nice to know this one's getting close to the operational deployment stage. Nicer still, knowing that this is but the visible tip of the iceberg. There's more good news to come, count on it.
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