How far Can a 22 Hit a Target? 300 yd? 500 yd More?!!

[Longstud]

Perhaps an apropos analogy. The wording itself makes it seem like the Sumerians somehow really knew about Pluto, even though that was impossible. It's not unlike believing that it seems someone can shoot a pop can with a .22LR at 700 yards using only iron sights.

So what about the drawings of Leonardo Davinchi of planes and helicopters. Oh thats rite. How can anybody in truth say what happened when they were not there. OOOh thats why theres THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER!! Everything with a grain of salt but some realism is also required for proper perspective. The Galapagos Islands were not favourable to THE BOOK but pretty much irrefutable. Just sayin

 

[maifire]

Apologies but not at one point in garands video did i believe that 22man knew what the hell he was stating that he did.
Enfilade fire is not accuracy. It is odds.
My marksmanship instructor told me a line that i carry to this day, “it is never about how good you can shoot-it is always about how often you can shoot that good”.

 

[grauhanen]

So what about the drawings of Leonardo Davinchi of planes and helicopters.

Don't take this the wrong way, but they aren't relevent here. The drawings obviously exist. They represent how Da Vinci, a man of genious and great vision, imagined a flying "machine" might work, nothing more. He also imagined the tank and the parachute but it would take centuries to actually see them. He wasn't inspired by mysterious forces, but rather by an inventive curiousity that knew few bounds. People imagined space travel long before it was a reality, even in the modest way space travel exists today.

The Da Vinci ideas change nothing at all about whether Sumerians astronomers could tell people about something (Pluto) that they simply couldn't see or know about. They couldn't see Neptune or Uranus either. The ancient Sumerians couldn't understand how to use Newtonian gravitational laws to predict by mathematical calculation the existence of planets that can't be seen by eye -- which is how Neptune was "discovered" in 1846.

No one should succumb to the idea that the ancients had powers that were simply not there.

No one purposely hits a pop can with a .22LR at 700 yards using iron sights.

 

[Can-down]

No one should succumb to the idea that the ancients had powers that were simply not there.

As a modern builder, who has been to a few ancient temple sites...... there was something powerful there in the past that seems to have been lost to time is all I can conclude.

But unlike some, there are many things I don't fully understand, nor can I explain..... and I'm fine with that as it means there is more to understand and learn about going forward. Known Unknown's.

Archaeology seems to be a field where it is often necessary to put aside the inconvenient parts to justify a take.... reminds me of some of the climate modellers today.

Hubris is an ancient concept, it would be interesting if it could be measured and it's overall levels compared across history. I imagine it's as high or higher today then it's ever been.


I thing we can all agree with the odds of hitting a pop can at 700 yards with a 10/22 in less then one mag is quite low.... and doing it repeatedly even lower still.....