PowerPlinker - About Us

Plinkers can grouped into three broad categories:

  1. Dedicated, skilled, marksmen who aren't involved in formal shooting programs.
  2. Gun owners and hunters who are safe and responsible, but aren't normally exercising or improving their marksmanship beyond an elementary level.
  3. Gun owners who damage property and leave a mess.

The last group is beneath contempt. They aren't shooters, they're vandals! Every bullet-riddled traffic sign, every pile of shot-up junk left at a shooting facility, every piece of damaged range equipment, every unrecovered, wounded animal left to suffer and die was caused by this last group. This is unresponsible, even criminal, activity caused by a slob who happens to own a firearm. Thankfully, this is a small group. What we need is sufficient effort to demonstrate to the general public that this small group is indeed a minority and that most of us are more responsible.

The second group is most common and includes most gun owners and hunters. They aren't causing problems, but they aren't advancing shooting skills either. Expending ammunition on a range or a hunt without the means of testing and comparing results rarely yields results. Long-time gun owners who finally attend a good shooting school often report that "I learned more in four days than I did in the last ten years!" A decade of untested, inconsequential "experience" can never yield improvement, just as retaking the same grammar-school arithmetic test for ten years won't teach you Calculus.

The first group are plinkers whose marksmanship skill is at a top level and can demonstrate that fact. For example, Ed McGivern established a number of speed pistol shooting records. His shooting challenges were of his own design, not on any established, formal course of fire. McGivern was a plinker! But he demonstrated and proved his claimed prowess against those challenges. Anyone else is welcome to try... or invent and demonstrate a whole new challenge.

Many gun owners assume they're in the first group. However, without the means and willingness to demonstrate they can never be. If you have the guts and the skill, we'll provide the opportunity!

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Yes, there is a real person behind this website. I'm John, nice to meet you. Military side, I'm a small arms instructor in the US Army Reserve with the Small Arms Readiness Group, on active duty since 2003, am a member of the USAR Shooting Team, and have managed a few first-place wins at the All Army Small Arms Championships and AFSAM (Armed Forces Skills at Arms Meeting.) Civilian side, I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Computer Systems, hold several shooting classifications at "Master" level, am a NROI-certified Range Officer, and NRA life member.

I'll be away on active duty until 2008, but I'm still working on the project when I can. Hopefully I'll answer your questions in the newsletter (you did sign up for for the free newsletter, right?) If I don't, you can reach me by email (spelled out to fool the spambots!): jbuol -(at)- copper -(dot)- net