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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Ove Interest?
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:15:44 -0500
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:17:01 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>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:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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 :-)
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> I can only assume that a real "master of his trade", as it were,
>>>> doesn't need to brag.
>>>
>>> Says the guy who just bragged about competing in the Massachusetts 
>>> State Pistol Matches. How ironic!   :-)
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> 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.

Like said elsewhere. In order for something to be bragworthy it has to
be noteworthy and/or have a bit of a risk. 

An education is not an accomplishment, it's only a tool. Bragging
about education is like saying, "Look at me, I bought a hammer and a
skill saw.

--
C'est bon
Soloman