Wow, the amazing Uncle Jock reader appreciation free gun contest has turned out to be, well, an amazing experience. The response, I think, was pretty spectacular. Some 34 individuals entered the contest, some with more than one entry. And the quality of the entries was high, which made deciding on a winner very difficult.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, I did pick a winner, but before we get to that, I have made a decision that the quality of entries was so high that I have decided that everyone who entered the amazing Uncle Jock reader appreciation free gun contest will receive a copy of my book \u201cElliott on Airguns\u201d on CD. Now, lest you get confused, this is NOT an audio book. It is a collection of thirty of my articles written for Precision Shooting magazine or The Accurate Rifle magazine and presented in pdf files on the CD. You can read the stories on the disk, or you can print them out and read them that way. In any event, I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them.<\/p>\n
And now, the envelope please . . . the winner of the Benjamin Trail NP XL 725 is Robert Weaver from Fort Washington, MD.<\/p>\n
Here is his winning entry:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I like best about airguns is\u2026well, that they\u2019re air GUNS.\u00a0 They\u2019re not air toys, not air pellet launchers, they\u2019re guns and when I do what I\u2019m supposed to, the pellets go where I intend.<\/em><\/p>\n Disclaimer: I generally shoot outdoor conventional (bullseye) pistol \u2013 a lot.\u00a0 And the only two things that count in bullseye pistol are sight alignment and trigger control. And I\u2019m painfully aware that when I don\u2019t do what I\u2019m supposed to do with my .22 and .45 pistols, the holes in the paper aren\u2019t where I want them to be \u2013 and that holds true for my airgun, too.<\/em><\/p>\n I can practice with my airgun in my basement all winter \u2013 all, cold, rainy, snowy, wind-out-of-the-north-and-I-couldn\u2019t-get-to-the-range-if-I-wanted-to winter with the confidence that when the weather warms up, everything that I\u2019ve practiced all winter transitions to my bullseye guns.\u00a0 What do I practice?\u00a0 Sight alignment and trigger control.<\/em><\/p>\n I like it that my airgun shoots better than I can.\u00a0 I know those holes in the seven (and yes, six and sometimes five-ring) are NOT the guns\u2019 fault, that they\u2019re indicators that something I did between picking the gun up and setting it down again wasn\u2019t done properly, and I need to work on whatever it was.\u00a0 Sometime I actually know what that is.<\/em><\/p>\n I like it that I can practice for pennies on the dollar compared to what I spend on .22 and reloading components for .45 ammunition, and that that practice is every bit as meaningful. \u00a0I like it that I can shoot indoors without hearing protection and without having the house smell like a mixture of my favorite gun-cleaning chemistry mixed with primers and gunpowder.\u00a0 OK, my wife likes that more than I do, but still\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n And I like it that when I step up to the firing line at my club\u2019s matches, I\u2019m with a whole bunch of men and women, from all walks of life, of all ages, and I\u2019m not competing with any of them. I compete against me, and sometimes I win, and sometimes I don\u2019t, but I ALWAYS have a good time competing, and I always manage to both learn something from one of the better shooters, and teach something to one of the newer shooters.\u00a0 It\u2019s just me and my airgun, and I like it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Til next time, aim true and shoot straight.<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jock Elliott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, the amazing Uncle Jock reader appreciation free gun contest has turned out to be, well, an amazing experience. The response, I think, was pretty spectacular. Some 34 individuals entered the contest, some with more than one entry. And the quality of the entries was high, which made deciding on a winner very difficult. Ultimately,…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}