Brassman66
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People raised on the Prairies, Desserts and Mountains often can see further better then People in Cities.
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Depends on your glass and patience.
I hope sometime soon i can leave NS and/or be invited to shoot at something over 300y away.
Ganderite's point was some people have better eye sight then others, aiming at a large aiming point with good contrast above or behind a smaller target is what the rest of us need at some point.....
I would prefer to have great vision and shoot with peeps with an " if I can see it I can hit it approach" but clearly, or not so clearly that reality is not eternal.
Good news is optics have never been better or more affordable they they are today!
We all think that others see things much the same way we do.
I can recall coaching élite rifle shooters (George Chase and Alain Marion as two examples) who had different eyes than the rest of us. First thing I noticed was that they could see things with the naked eye that I needed a 20X spotting scope to see. At first I thought they were pulling my leg, put as I looked through the scope I realized that they could actually see things.
The other thing was that the front aperture sight to them looked different. At 1000 yards I thought that the 2.8mm size as about right to sight the bull. They said that with something that big they could not only see their target, but the targets on either side, too. They just saw thing different.
In the video, a guy emailed that as a kid he could see and hit pop cans at 700 yards. Everyone knows you can't see a pop can at 700 yards, so the bet was on.
I recall reading, some years ago, about a couple different groups that could have had no possible access to magnified vision, all were able to accurately plot out the paths of various planetary moons that were thought to be unable to be seen with the naked eye. Polynesians, and Sub Saharan Africans, who had both been able to show that they had been tracking and watching these moons around planets that they should supposedly not have been able to see.
Have also read, that for reasons unknown, the Colorblind, were discovered to have a particular adeptness at picking out camo netting in WW2 recce photo strips, to such an extent that those who were colorblind got routed through some additional testing when they came to management's attention. Things you read, eh? Dunno if those two different stories have any merit, but it is not a stretch to think that despite the basic similarities in our general layouts, biologically, there are gonna be some who have the sight, as 'what they are good at', and it kinda boggles that they probably don't know that seeing the squirrels on the other side of the valley, isn't normal, or they got told enough times that it was impossible, that they stopped pointing the stuff out to 'the rest'.
Then you get to account for the variability in the Barrel quality of a 10/22! LOL! I figure I got a great barrel in mine, as those things go. Heard all the horror stories, but mine has always worked well enough for my needs. Enough that I never did Barbie Doll the thing up.
Kinda makes a fella wonder, what tiny little 'edges' might be picked up, by doing as they used to picking out Sniper rifles from the crop, in some Militaries, where they expected the Armorers to test shoot them, and grade them for accuracy, as well as condition! Imagine having a couple months worth of Walther or Anshutz's best, racked and stacked, then getting to sort out which were the "good" ones! Man! Talk about splitting down hairs!
Oh yeah. The video. Geezus! All those guys standing around, and nobody could be bothered to count rounds?
People raised on the Prairies, Desserts and Mountains often can see further better then People in Cities.
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We are a diverse species that's for sure!
I have read accounts of shamanism and out of body experiences as well where using astral projection people are able to take their conciseness and sight to distant places.... it would not be difficult of an astral traveller to check out the stars, planets and moons along the way.... so much we don't understand.
He was aiming at the big white square.
People raised on the Prairies, Desserts and Mountains often can see further better then People in Cities.
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Yeah, I guess. But this was just individuals among the peoples, who were able to demonstrate through their direct observation, that they were able to see with their naked eye, celestial bodies that were considered not possible to see, un-aided.
The Sumerian's from around 4000-2000 BC wrote in cuneiform on stone tablets about their knowledge of the solar system and described planets like Pluto that were not seen by modern eyes through telescopes in 1930.
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.![]()
Grauhanen, when the scientists figured out how to read the Cuneiform script they were apparently amazed at the descriptions of our solar system but also recognized extra planets that until 1930 they thought was an error. Not sure why you think that they would bother accurately recording things they didn't know about, but it is what it was.
Sumeria is interesting in that it popped up from seemingly nowhere and had most of the knowledge, institutions and structures that modern societies are built on..... as far as I know there is no really good explanation of where the base knowledge came from. Some have even gone so far as to suggest alien involvement in an effort to explain the sudden intense burst of knowledge, those people would explain the knowledge of the cosmos as being gifted from the "gods" who came down from the sky and laid out a new social order along with some gene therapy for the smartest apes they could find....
It's a big universe and getting bigger which is another strange concept to ponder. Perhaps not all UFO's are amateur hobby balloon's or Chinese weather balloons?