Nice.
I'm 29 and I drive stick. I only learned how to 3 years ago, when despite never having driven a manual car I decided i'd buy one and teach myself how because it would be a lot of fun.
Needless to say I was right, it is.
I find the comment above, "Driving Stick is a skill that is quickly becoming unnecessary" pretty hilarious. Unless you're trying to get a job running certain heavy equipment it's already been "unnecessary" for quite a while. That's not the question, and the answer has a lot in common with why lever actions and single action revolvers are still being made in an age of semi autos dressed in the ubiquitous black glass reinforced nylon.
Biggest benefit besides just been a good time i've fond is it keeps you engaged with your driving, I find i'm a lot more alert of what's going on on the road because you always thinking when you should shift up or down or just coast in neutral. It's a lot easier to go completely into autopilot driving a automatic and zone right out.
All of my shooting is skewed very heavily towards irons. Out of the 4 or 5k rounds I shot last year all but maybe a couple hundred (being very generous) were with irons. This is changing, just a couple weeks ago I bought my first aimpoint, a micro H2. I like it a lot.
My first rifle was a heavy barrel .223 bolt gun with a 8-32x on it. I thought what i'd be most interested in shooting was precision rifle, turns out I just like to shoot steel offhand with iron sighted milsurps. There's been consecutive years I haven't shot that 223.
My shooting bench has fallen into disrepair and has a mean wobble to it, i'm thinking I might have to rebuild it from scratch before any real target work. Meanwhile my substantial investment in offhand shooting continues to pay dividends.
In the context of recent events, i've heard it commented "I only kneel to return fire". I might have to branch out into shooting from the knee. Just steel of course
