ORIGINAL: Arthur P
From what you've "seen of this crowd"? The way you say that, I assume you don't participate in competitive shooting much, if at all, and are speaking as an outsider looking in?
I am speaking on my experience with the 3D crowd......no I don't run around on the pro circuit or travel the country with them. I have been to a few shoots and they were all the same......and I described the impression they gave me.
Well, as one who used to run with that crowd, I can tell you that's not the case. Sure, there are the ones who are all show and glitz and have to have the latest greatest toys and doodads, but they are the ones who always have a wide variety of excuses for their rotten shooting. Theguys who are in it to win are a different bunch.
It sounds like we are describing the same scene.........I never said EVERY 3D shooter was like the ones I mentioned. Did seem to be a high majority though IMO and thus the reason for my statements.
I guarantee you that if they saw someone shooting a wb in their class, they wouldn't be lining up to check his score at the end of the day.
EXACTLY what I was talking about........the peer pressure of shooting something everyone else is looking down their noses at should not be ignored as a reason.
Okay, so ONE guy won Vegas with a WB, ONCE.
Winning Vegas with a junk rest???..........doesn't sound possible and surely sustained excellence can't be chalked up to luck right?
Another guy shoots a 300 59X round - and he might have gotten a perfect 60X if he'd been using a different rest.
He could have also shot worse with another rest too right?
When folks start winning on aCONSISTENT basis with a wb, then maybe I'll change my tune about their accuracy and forgiveness.
Winning Vegas doesn't require consistency?........If it can be done once it can be done 1,000 times. I laugh when I see stuff like this because it USED to read "When someone wins Vegas I will believe in the WB".........now it has changed to "When someone wins Vegas AGAIN"
Just like Mathews going above and beyond on overblowing the so-called 'problem' of keeping dual cam bows in synch, CAP is doing the same thing by overblowing the 'problem' of arrows falling off the rest. They've both bred a hardcore group of fanatics that simply will notaccept that the stuff they like simply does not work for everyone. And, brother, they take ill any suggestion that their chosen stuff isn't abosolutely perfect.
That same thing could be said about those that bristle (pun intended) at the very mention of the WB........no matter how much evidence piles up every year in favor of the WB there is still going to be die hard resistence from those that just won't accept the rest as viable equipment.