Why is that? A gun instructor i had said the same thing. I would expect a trained carpenter to hit the head of a nail 90% of the time,
I have considerable experience driving nails and even though I haven’t done much of it lately I think I could still hit the head of a nail with a hammer about 98% of the time. As for shooting, I laughed at all the speculation about the DC snipers, so-called experts were saying that they OBVIOUSLY had to be trained by the military simply because of successful head shots at relatively short ranges. My father never served a day in the military and would not spend money for ammunition to practice with but he could take the eyes out of a squirrel at a hundred feet with a bolt action .22 loaded with shorts and with open sights. I am fairly certain that something the size of a human head would have been easy for him at a hundred YARDS even when he was eighty years old, especially with a .223 and telescopic sights. If you want to shoot like Annie Oakley you need to shoot every day but someone who has never fired a gun before can hit a man sized target at twenty feet first try if it is just a target. The main reason for all the misses, at least in my opinion, is nerves. A person who is defending his life for the first time with a weapon is apt to be very shaky. It is of no benefit to be able to shoot like Annie Oakley at targets if you are as shaky as Barney Fife when you need to hit a home invader. That is the real need for training, to be able to remain calm enough to shoot back under fire and days spent shooting targets don’t guarantee that.
How often is the nail hitting back?
**I would expect a trained carpenter to hit the head of a nail 90% of the time,**
I’m good for 99%! If I can’t hit the iron nail I hit the thumb nail!