After many decades of being a hard-core shooting enthusiast, it has finally dawned on me that being capable of shooting good groups on paper with long guns or handguns doesn’t equal good marksmanship. Here’s a prime example. A Montana friend, Steve Brooks is a custom knife and custom bullet mould maker. He is also a 2-time national champion in the NRA’s Black Powder Cartridge Rifle Silhouette game.

On visits to his shop and he to my gunroom, we have looked over each other’s “trophy groups.” Such are the ones so good you tape them to the wall so visitors can ooh and aah over them. Steve always commented his trophy groups were never as good as mine. The answer is simple. I shoot practically for a living in order to present some information to accompany these columns and articles. Hence I get much more practice in shooting groups than he. Regardless, he has proven he is a better marksman than I. That’s because while he has won those two national BPCR Silhouette championships, I’ve only managed to struggle into the top 10 on two occasions out of 23 tries.

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