Re: Ove Interest?

On 2/26/2025 11:46 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 2/26/2025 10:04 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 2/26/2025 6:23 AM, John B. wrote:

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Years ago, when I was still shooting, our team competed at the
Massachusetts State Pistol Matches. A team from the Army Academe  also
attended and their coach was a guy named "Joe Benner"one of the really
great pistol shooters of the times -- six national championships
between 1947 and 1959,  The International Shooting Sports Federation,
ISSF), including Free Pistol (World Champion, 1954 and Olympic
Champion, 1952), Rapid-Fire Pistol (World Champion 1949 and 1952) and
Center-Fire Pistol (World Champion, 1949 and so on.
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As military groups tend to associate with other military groups,  we
all talk the same language :-) and our "Chief" was the same rank as
Benner they chatted during the matches. (As I was a lower rank I just
got to listen :-)
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So for about 4 days I sat and listened to one of the greatest pistol
shooters of his times talk, and never once did I hear him say, "I
did", I said, I was called" and all the other glamorous terms I read
here.
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I can only assume that a real "master of his trade", as it were,
doesn't need to brag.

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Says the guy who just bragged about competing in the Massachusetts State Pistol Matches. How ironic!   :-)
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 Camp Perry matches are a Big Deal and have been since 1907.
 https://accurateshooter.net/pix/perrycmp1604.jpg
 Open to anyone, even you.
https://thecmp.org/cmp-national-matches/

And that should raise the following question: How do we tell when a person is "bragging" or when a person is just mentioning something they've done?
For John and the guy who rides only a tricycle, the standard seems to be that if I mention anything, I'm "bragging." If _they_ mention anything, it's done in perfect humility.
I think that's an absurdly biased standard.
BTW, qualifying for and earning a Professional Engineering license is open to everyone, just like competing in a shooting match. So are most of the other things I've done, including many I didn't bother to mention.
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- Frank Krygowski