This post was inspiring to me in the sense that it created visuals in my head.
I have been picking up my fiction writing habit again and this made me think of what it would be like to have a character that is a long distance shooter... there is a possibility for it in one of my stories. So I will keep an eye out for more of these kinds of posts!
I've done loads of posts like this over the years (well, quite a few) but most go right over people's heads even despite my efforts to make them less technical. It's not that I think people are dumb, just that the concepts are so foreign to those who are not shooters (and most general shooters as well really) that the posts become long due to having to go off on tangents to explain a concept. It's a challenge to write them sometimes but I like that aspect, but super long posts are not advisable here, even this one is far too long.
Anyway, I've done some fictional pieces based on shooting and, of course, most fiction is based on a degree of fact right?
Indeed it is. To write believable fiction, one must immerse oneself in plenty information!
While I might never become an expert in that field, I do have a technical enough of a brain to be able to at least read and create such a character I think. So I will view your articles and stories with that eye!
It is similar to the amount of random information I have collected over the years about sailing ships, smithing, horse husbandry, etc etc etc the list goes on!