David Tubb Documentary Video
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I want that video to be 2 hours longer and a series !
Guy is a machine. Read two or three of his books when I was shooting XTC. Phenomenal focus.
Seeing the nose ring tool in the video but not in my reloading room gotz me triggered.
Wow. Just..., wow!
It's eerie.
My shooting activities began In 1992, when our Daughter turned 21. I had been raised to shoot, had done so as a youth, but I never picked up a gun again after my time as a Marine in 'Nam, '66-'67; just too many horrific associations. After some time, I had wanted to; but for some reason, I refused to do it while I had a minor child in the home.
So, I hit the range moving slowly, picking other peoples' brains like I had as a kid with my two elder Brothers, ten and eleven years my senior. Early on ('93) I had joined the Marine Corps League and almost right after that, they started up a pistol team. I got into it borrowing a Smith 622, then buying a High Standard Supermatic Trophy II, very used. A series 70 Gold Cup, bought as a detail stripped gun w/o a frame, and I was on my way shooting 3-gun Bullseye.
I managed to get my shooting practice certification shooting NRA High Power N/M Course with a (Dear God, help me!) Norinco SKS. My DCM Garand arrived in due course, and I really got wrapped around the axle on the N/M course. The pistol Team became the Shooting Team; I became the Captain, and I was eventually asked to develop MCL Detachment Shooting Teams like our own throughout the State of NJ. When I left NJ in '98, there were 26 of them. This year the 23rd Annual Carlos Hathcock Sniper Match will be held.
I also was an occasional contributor to Precision Shooting, and when the inaugural issue of Tactical Shooter came out, it had two articles of mine in it. I was a self employed technical writer (Systems...) and the articles just seemed like a natural thing to do.
That was some time after The Lowlight Directive became SH; I came aboard during the former. The rest is known here, if you ask the right few remaining survivors here from those times.
So why is this appearing in this topic?
Well; G. David Tubb is my living Patron Saint.
I say eerily, because I, too, trained for the N/M course with an air rifle, one of those cheap plastic break open biathlon trainers. Rebuilding your position after each and very shot helps. Not half bad accurate, but a trigger like pulling down a house. That's why I tend to downplay dependence on a match trigger. The match is won in the Prone, and lost in the Offhand. A tin of pellets a day in Offhand, down in that dim basement, brought me into actual contention. You could buy joy, and cheaply, too; by the tin.
G. David Tubb is a Renaissance Man. He has many, many successes to his name. I judge my life by his, and come up short; as I should. His skills are so diverse and well rounded, it's amazing.
Diversely; I was, for a long time, forced to do it on the cheap. I'm not quite so strapped these days, but old habits die hard; mine not at all where guns are concerned.
Also, early on, I branched my participation in Scouting out a bit to include running a Youth Marksmanship program at our local range in Upstate/Central NY; pre-Cuomo, of course.
From that, I have made it a role to try and help the new shooters, and to experiment with developing affordable kit that can help them get beyond the mundane hunting rifle.
I am an unabashed admirer of G. David Tubb; and I hope we will all have him around to inspire us for a long time to come.
Greg
It's eerie.
My shooting activities began In 1992, when our Daughter turned 21. I had been raised to shoot, had done so as a youth, but I never picked up a gun again after my time as a Marine in 'Nam, '66-'67; just too many horrific associations. After some time, I had wanted to; but for some reason, I refused to do it while I had a minor child in the home.
So, I hit the range moving slowly, picking other peoples' brains like I had as a kid with my two elder Brothers, ten and eleven years my senior. Early on ('93) I had joined the Marine Corps League and almost right after that, they started up a pistol team. I got into it borrowing a Smith 622, then buying a High Standard Supermatic Trophy II, very used. A series 70 Gold Cup, bought as a detail stripped gun w/o a frame, and I was on my way shooting 3-gun Bullseye.
I managed to get my shooting practice certification shooting NRA High Power N/M Course with a (Dear God, help me!) Norinco SKS. My DCM Garand arrived in due course, and I really got wrapped around the axle on the N/M course. The pistol Team became the Shooting Team; I became the Captain, and I was eventually asked to develop MCL Detachment Shooting Teams like our own throughout the State of NJ. When I left NJ in '98, there were 26 of them. This year the 23rd Annual Carlos Hathcock Sniper Match will be held.
I also was an occasional contributor to Precision Shooting, and when the inaugural issue of Tactical Shooter came out, it had two articles of mine in it. I was a self employed technical writer (Systems...) and the articles just seemed like a natural thing to do.
That was some time after The Lowlight Directive became SH; I came aboard during the former. The rest is known here, if you ask the right few remaining survivors here from those times.
So why is this appearing in this topic?
Well; G. David Tubb is my living Patron Saint.
I say eerily, because I, too, trained for the N/M course with an air rifle, one of those cheap plastic break open biathlon trainers. Rebuilding your position after each and very shot helps. Not half bad accurate, but a trigger like pulling down a house. That's why I tend to downplay dependence on a match trigger. The match is won in the Prone, and lost in the Offhand. A tin of pellets a day in Offhand, down in that dim basement, brought me into actual contention. You could buy joy, and cheaply, too; by the tin.
G. David Tubb is a Renaissance Man. He has many, many successes to his name. I judge my life by his, and come up short; as I should. His skills are so diverse and well rounded, it's amazing.
Diversely; I was, for a long time, forced to do it on the cheap. I'm not quite so strapped these days, but old habits die hard; mine not at all where guns are concerned.
Also, early on, I branched my participation in Scouting out a bit to include running a Youth Marksmanship program at our local range in Upstate/Central NY; pre-Cuomo, of course.
From that, I have made it a role to try and help the new shooters, and to experiment with developing affordable kit that can help them get beyond the mundane hunting rifle.
I am an unabashed admirer of G. David Tubb; and I hope we will all have him around to inspire us for a long time to come.
Greg
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