I've been here on FR for 22 years. Waiting for "Go" time. In that 22 years I've had four major lower back surgeries, two "minor" heart attacks and three mini strokes (those since January of this year.
I'm old, slow, cannot run any longer and thanks to diminished lung capacity (no, I'm not a smoker, never have been) I get winded easily.
I'm still a damn' good shot though. Out shot my LEO son a few days ago at the gun range. I'd make a half-way decent sniper until I get taken out myself. All I ask at my age and "abilities" is for Go time to happen while I'm still alive. My generation should've done it long ago and our time is slipping away. Lord knows the next generation is incapable of fighting.
The millennials are just an enormous blunder. Unfortunately, they already outnumber Boomers. All but a few of our precious WWII hero’s are still with us The good news is that the Over 50 crowd is our most reliable voting bloc. Kids are easily distracted by video games and weed. Now we have to add in this horrible K2 stuff.
I am thinkIng you are a veteran. (The tip off is the high level of firearms skills). If so, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Few things enrage me more than gifting homeless, jihadis, and illegals with our money and now real estate when we have VETERANS on the streets, many struggling with PTSD, some self-medicating.Twenty-two veterans per month eating their guns or using other methods to end their young lives is unconscionable. This should *never* have been tolerated. This is on Democrat’s, Republicans, and us. President Trump appears the first to show some interest in change.
What a round about way to suggest that the sharpness of your shooting skills remains stored in muscle memory. The reason we can remember exactly what happened on Prom Night but forget what we had for lunch yesterday is a function memory vs storage. Your long term memories were moved to the storage part of your brain. Forgetting recent events is a true memory problem. Your recollection of the event didn’t make it into storage in its original state.
So memory loss with age is not a memory problem, it’s a storage problem.