How does this happen?

• slingshot4ever

  Maybe I'm naive, but shouldn't a military academy win this every year?
  
  http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/c-pistol/recaps/031314aaa.html
• WebFire

  Practice is practice, whether on a civilian range or military range. And the military probably works more on combat weapons and situations, than pistols on a range.
• LJ

  

  slingshot4ever;1591212 wrote:Maybe I'm naive, but shouldn't a military academy win this every year?
  
  http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/c-pistol/recaps/031314aaa.html

  There is a natural ability to shooting. Just because someone is in the military doesn't mean they have that ability.
• slingshot4ever

  I would just think there is so much more training for military. But i forgot it would be more combat related than pistol. They clearly are good at it though as military academies finished second and third.
• believer

  

  WebFire;1591217 wrote:And the military probably works more on combat weapons and situations, than pistols on a range.

  this
  
  While sidearms are certainly part of military training, pistols are not the focus.
  
  These, however, are:
  
  
• queencitybuckeye

  Most academy graduates will never fire a weapon in a combat situation. They're being trained for leading those who will, or to command those who support them.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Perhaps most of the instructors of the class have served. It is a shooting exercise, not a military exercise. They are engaging in an Olympic sport, not a battlefield situation.
• gut

  Some of those girls should consider a more physically active sport.
  
  And let's see how they would do with other people shooting back at them.
• thavoice

  I see that MIT finished 3rd.
  
  That is kinda, odd I guess. Maybe?
  
  Folks in the military are no different than those outside the military. I imagine those from the military academies who are in this competition get pretty much the same practice/range time as those at OSU/etc.
• Mohican00

  

  gut;1591857 wrote:And let's see how they would do with other people shooting back at them.

  no need to be salty, it's just a marksmanship competition.
• queencitybuckeye

  gut;1591857 wrote:Some of those girls should consider a more physically active sport.
  

  Yet they've accomplished more in a little over 20 years than you have in your entire life.
• Fab4Runner

  

  gut;1591857 wrote:Some of those girls should consider a more physically active sport.
  
  And let's see how they would do with other people shooting back at them.

  Or they can kick ass in the one they participate in.