C’mon, admit it. The term OCD has been applied to airgunners, usually in the context of weighing, measuring, sorting, and maybe washing and lubing every pellet. There are other ways I see the trait creeping in, too.
However, my own peculiarity is trying to retrieve 100% of pellets fired. The trap captures all that are shot at a paper or cardboard target, but objects placed inside it or spinners placed in front send spent pellets to the ground...somewhere. Mostly close to the front below the target. Yet it can be hard to find EVERY pellet. And that is always my goal.
Because strays can be spotted at random times later on, I keep checking the ground. Every session ends with picking up the obvious ones, but if that doesn’t get exactly the number shot, I keep searching later, sometimes with a headlamp at night to spot shiny bits in the dirt. The retrieval has become part of the exercise.
My husband sometimes reminds me that (a) the amount of lead in the dirt doesn’t amount to much), and (b) we have bobcats and mountain lions here.
What’s YOUR flavor of obsession?
However, my own peculiarity is trying to retrieve 100% of pellets fired. The trap captures all that are shot at a paper or cardboard target, but objects placed inside it or spinners placed in front send spent pellets to the ground...somewhere. Mostly close to the front below the target. Yet it can be hard to find EVERY pellet. And that is always my goal.
Because strays can be spotted at random times later on, I keep checking the ground. Every session ends with picking up the obvious ones, but if that doesn’t get exactly the number shot, I keep searching later, sometimes with a headlamp at night to spot shiny bits in the dirt. The retrieval has become part of the exercise.
My husband sometimes reminds me that (a) the amount of lead in the dirt doesn’t amount to much), and (b) we have bobcats and mountain lions here.
What’s YOUR flavor of obsession?
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