Shooting sports growing at colleges nationwide

[iverglas]

14. interesting and probably true

(But how about darts? Doesn't take the strength that archery, for instance, calls for.)

Canada's two claims to fame in that regard are Linda what'sername, our gold medalist ... and unfortunately, a raving right-winger and gun militant ... and the Canadian Forces guy who held that long-range sniper record for a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Thom

I enjoy watching the winter Olympics one where they ski and shoot. It's just so ... Nordic. And hectically slow.

But formal shooting competitions aren't actually mixed-sex, are they? Maybe at local levels?

I'm quite serious when I think this is a perfectly nice activity that I quite understand people enjoying, and I think it's a sport (although I might really say hobby) I'm sure I'd enjoy -- just a matter of personal proclivity. I liked archery in school, and the primitive video game I was a fanatic about (and damned good at) at the arcade years ago was Star Castle, where aiming and shooting were the only tasks -- and real sports shooting would come without the anxiety about getting blown up, to boot. It's just that to take it up, here, I'd have to be travelling to the other end of town by bus and back, on top of getting the permit to start with (the firearms would be supplied by the club -- and fortunately I have access to a club that I know would not be frequented by militants), and I'm just too lazy and disorganized. And I probably should have done it before all the eye surgery ... but glasses correct astigmatism, and a little loss of peripheral vision in one eye wouldn't be the handicap it might be for, say, soccer.